Opinion
I began working as assistant sports editor and outdoor columnist for The (Petersburg, Va.) Progress-Index in February 2004. Prior to that, I rarely got the opportunity to express my opinion in print, but when I worked for the Morris County, N.J., Daily Record, I got tired of listening to one blowhard legislator in New Jersey mangle history and had to speak up.
NOTE: The sports reports and features from The Progress-Index appear on the Sports page. Some of the outdoor reports appears on the News page.
Early in May 2004, I wrote a column about the challenges of taking small children fishing for The Progress-Index. The column was originally held, but I ran it for Fathers Day, June 19, 2004.
On Saturday, April 3, 2004, a group of volunteers gathered at several sites along the Appomattox River to help clean up the riverfront. I initially wrote a news story about the cleanup for the Sunday, April 4, edition of The Progress-Index, then followed up with a column about the effort the following day.
Chronic Wasting Disease is a communicable illness similar to Mad Cow Disease that is spreading through deer and elk populations in North America. This column, which appeared in the May 28, 2004, edition of The Progress-Index, discusses Virginia's efforts to keep the outbreak from crossing its borders.
The lanscape of rural Virginia is changing rapidly -- especially in the eastern part of the Old Dominion. Virginia's wildlife lose critical habitat as more an more of the natural landscape is being subdivided and developed. This column, which appeared in the March 15, 2004, edition of The Progress-Index, discusses efforts by some landowners to limit the loss.
An op-ed piece -- in response to the usual outrageous comments by one of New Jersey's dumbest conservative state legislators -- on the need for affirmative action to counteract entrenched racism, which appeared in the July 16, 1997, edition of the Daily Record:
Racism lives today, and so does the need for affirmative action
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