Since 1978 I have written for newspapers, magazines, and other outlets. I'm currently a regular contributor to Milwaukee Magazine, where I've won a half-dozen awards since 1995. In addition to contributing major features I write the magazine's monthly Pressroom column. Pressroom was named Best Topical Column for 2007 in the Milwaukee Press Club's Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Contest-Magazine Division.
Topics I've covered include the flamboyant and controversial defense lawyer Jerry Boyle; the fall and rise again of Master Lock, a symbol of manufacturing's survival in the global economy; how funeral homes market their services to the living and the dying; and the deaths of two women whose Pap smears were improperly read, leading to criminal charges against the medical lab responsible for reading the tests. I've profiled Congressmen Paul Ryan and James Sensenbrenner; Teamsters Union head Frank Busalacchi (now Wisconsin's Transportation Secretary); and MATC boss Darnell Cole, among others. In 2006 I covered the Wisconsin governor's race. And since 2001 I've written five features on Best Places to Work in the Milwaukee area, a project in which the magazine partners with the human resources training and consulting group MRA-The Management Association. The most recent such story is here.
Besides Milwaukee magazine, my work has appeared in The American Lawyer; the Chicago Tribune;
Midwest Airlines magazine; Isthmus, in Madison, Wisconsin; Small Business
Times, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and The New Democrat. I also write for a series of trade magazines put out by Cole Publishing.
Before launching my magazine career in 1995, I covered labor and workplace issues for the Milwaukee Journal for nine years, and health and medicine for the Rochester,
N.Y., Democrat & Chronicle. I graduated with a BA in English Composition from
Beloit College in 1978 and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University in 1983.
