I had the pleasure of covering Alaska’s crazy three-way senate race on election day for the New York Times. The majority of the focus was on Murkowski’s historic write-in campaign and her Tea-Party backed republican challenger Joe Miller. In the end the “write-in” votes lead, but only time will tell how many of those are [...]

On a recent assignment covering the Award ceremony of the 2009 Walter J. Hickel award to Willie Hensley, I couldn’t help but take notice that the general tone of the room changed with each speaker. I found myself fascinated by the somewhat embarrassing stories each speaker told of their friend Willie, as he sat [...]