On primary election night 2018, I was sent to the joint candidate party for two progressives running for sheriff and district attorney. Much of the two stories about the races were pre-written, but the Sacramento Bee needed reactions from the candidates and their supporters. I interviewed both candidates several times…
When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced he would hold a rally in Davis ahead of the California primary in 2016, I jumped at the opportunity to cover it for my local newspaper, The Davis Enterprise. I got a media credential and spent several hours before, during and after Sanders’ speech…
It was all hands on deck at Kaiser Health News when the Senate released its proposed repeal-and-replace-Obamacare bill in summer 2017, and I was sent into midtown Sacramento to do some shoe-leather reporting. Braving a triple-digit heat wave, I interviewed dozens of Sacramento residents about their pre-existing conditions, health care…
When the world learned of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, the Sacramento Bee jumped into action. Kennedy is a Sacramento native, and our Capitol Bureau went into overdrive producing stories about the impact his departure would have on state and national politics. I did my part by quickly compiling…
Graduate students around the country were furious about a specific provision of the 2017 Republican tax bill, which would have treated part of their financial aid packages as taxable income. The Claremont consortium has a graduate school, so I decided to localize the story for our college paper, The Student…
One contest I was tracking closely on California’s 2018 primary election night was a measure in my hometown of Davis that would allow developers to build student housing on a parcel of land next to the freeway. It passed, after a narrow defeat in 2016, so I wrote about the…
