Local news keeps me busy these days, with energy reporting focused on nuclear and utilities for Wilmington's StarNews, the local newspaper; WHQR, the local public radio; and Reuters. Reports to the wire have also included articles about Carolina governments on all levels for the Municipal Bond Desk and bits of spot news from time to time.
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The freelancing keeps me in the action, providing some return for the hours I spend on the Internet. It is the unplanned result of taking a buyout from Reuters in December 2001 to end that bane of working in New York City -- commuting. At the time, my hope was to find a small news room, with clean air and a short commute. Instead I found a lot of sticker shock and age discrimination. In the summer of 2006, my wife's need for cleaner air than New Jersey provides forced a move without the hoped for new job. The result, freelance reporting from the Carolinas, where I appear to have created the news room I could not find.
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Other Memories Avoiding Shore Patrol while awaiting orders, after dropping from NESEP, by working as a JO in the base Public Affairs Office -- which had no rated journalists assigned for duty.
