Last week I traveled to Emporia, Kansas to work on a story about the school district vote to allow school security guards (who qualify) to carry handguns at school during the school day. USA Today reporter Judy Keen and I were introduced to one of the two qualified security officers in the school district,…
A few months ago I was approached by the Big Horn River Lodge to help them create a video to promote a new service they were beginning to offer at their fishing lodge on the famous trout fishing river, the Big Horn River, near Fort Smith, Montana. The Lodge, which is the premiere fishing lodge…
Jim Butler is a man that follows up on his promises. Even the ones that hurt. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to do some work with reporter Peter Sleeth here in Kansas for a investigative piece he was working on for ProPublica. ProPublica is a non-profit news organization specializing in investigative journalism to…
A few weeks ago I travelled to Springdale, Arkansas to work on a story for The New York Times about the large population of people from the Marshall Islands who have settled in northwest corner of Arkansas over the past few decades. It was a fun and challenging assignment. Without the help of Melisa Laelan,…
A few months ago, I travelled to Oklahoma City to spend the day with a horse racing jockey that had been injured while racing a quarter horse in New Mexico toward the end of 2011. I didn’t know much about Jacky Martin’s story other than that he was thrown from his mount moments after finishing…