Neal @ August 27, 2009 # One Comment
ALL I REALLY HAD IN mind was helping out my colleagues — I didn’t know I’d also be helping myself.
I’m referring to today’s North Bay Bohemian article titled “There to Be There: Police chaplains ride the thin blue line of compassion.” Aside from this blog and an occasional email, it’s the first thing I’ve written [...]
Neal @ April 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In the entire time I covered the Sonoma City Council, I only took the podium thrice: once to ask for clarification, once to offer my then-employer’s help with disseminating something of civic importance, and once when the mayor declared 1/17/01 as “Neal Ross Day” when I first left the Index-Tribune. (Geeez.) Tonight will be the [...]
Neal @ June 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is a certain poetry, or poetic side, to newswriting that’s not readily apparent to its readers — and perhaps not even to its practitioners.
This derives in large part, I think, from the absurdity inherent in exchanging six to eight hours a day for six to eight hundred words which will be forgotten by next [...]
Neal @ April 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Three things:
- My beats: fire, cops, breaking news, and meetings as needed.- I work with some freakishly smart, amazingly creative people; two of whom I have now dueled with a lightsaber.- The Game hasn’t changed much — get it fast, get it right, and get it (or a different part of it) first. Many of [...]
