This weekend, West celebrates, as I’m sure that sign will tell you, Westfest.I drove down to do a heartwarming story about how the city has recovered, with a new school opening and the federal investigation into the explosion wrapping up. Instead, I found myself driving home filled with a competitive drive reminiscent of my championship in the broadcast…
I spent part of my morning at a stand-off outside a house in East Dallas. Actually, it’s more accurate to say I spent part of my morning near a stand-off.When I pulled up, I parked along the side of the street. A photographer from one of the television stations pulled up directly behind me.An officer…
I’ve made the trip to Austin for Donald Trump’s rally, the closest to the election a major candidate has stopped in Texas in quite some time.Trump’s visit would come with some issues, such as the head of Austin’s Republican Party [Republican] staging a protest outside the arena. He says Trump’s nomination could hurt other…
I’m back in the Metroplex from covering the floods in Baton Rouge.This would involve a drive of several hours. Loyal Scaiaholics will understand that I like to notice signs while I’m driving… and I just realized that link was the last blog I wrote before my crash. Imagine if that whimsical blog about billboards had been…
I’m spending a few days in Baton Rouge to cover the flooding. I’ve talked to people who were wandering around outside their flooded neighborhood, waiting to go home to survey the damage. Several would remark that last month, three Baton Rouge officers were killed. An additional flood seemed like a bit much to them.Despite the serious nature…
Last month, I celebrated a birthday. This would occur while I was in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, so the term “celebrated” is probably a bit of a stretch, unless you consider spending a week with politicians, delegates and protesters a celebration.The convention would force me to delay my annual trip to the casinos for an entire week…
After two weeks and countless interviews with politicians, my time at the conventions is wrapping upYou’ve read about my commute in Philadelphia, and, much like last week, the past few days have been full of non-partisan good times.For instance, is it weird that the first time I saw Paul Simon live in concert was at a…