April 5, 1997 – Memphis, Tennessee My travels for my fraternity have brought me to the mid-south. This July, it wants to debut a new national rush video and I’m stepping up to help them. We’re on a weekend trip here to Memphis to shoot as many interviews and as much footage as we can …
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Taking The Handoff
November 19, 1999 – Gainesville, Florida You should have seen my eyes!!! They were as wide as could be!!! Massively!!! Craig Eicher was there. He was laughing so hard I thought he would pass out. First things first. There’s a reason they call Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium The Swamp. Simply put, it …
YOU WANTED THE BEST….!!!!
August 8, 1975 Living in Albany is bad enough. Having a job in a dreary downtown surrounded by a polluted river, empty potholed streets and slums is even worse. Having an office overlooking North Pearl Street and Clinton Avenue giving you a grand view of all of it probably sucks most of all. Even the …
The Boss Arrives
August 25, 1975 Why Roy Orbison? Maybe he was overdue. After all, by 1975 we were in full-blown nostalgia mode in America. How did we get here? We’d finally gotten our ass kicked out of Vietnam once and for all, our president resigned in disgrace and OPEC has us by the short-hairs. The fall-out from …
The Sneaker Riot
February 23, 2012 – Orlando “How many OPD cops does it take to write a parking ticket?” THAT got their attention, possibly more than my big giant live-truck parked on the concrete island between Church Street and Bob Snow Lane. For years, it’s where farmers markets, pop-up vendors and street musicians set up at various …
The Shark Story
June 10, 2015 – Volusia County, Fla. In this market, There’s a list that you carry in your head of people whose street cred towers above all else’s. In Volusia County, no one’s is as great as Clare Metz. No one. Clare is an institution in Volusia and not just because she’s a great reporter. …
Our Man in OKC
February 3, 1986 – Oklahoma You don’t who Wes McKinney is and that’s okay. But today he learned that he’s going away for ten years. McKinney was a Tulsa financier charged by the feds in a $600-million dollar check kiting scheme . He headed Tulsa-based Republic Financial Corporation and Republic Savings and Trust until they …
The Quiet Part Out Loud: Garbage Time at Broadcast House.
With the arrival of 2024, WKMG-TV in Orlando marks 40 years of a big leap forward in central Florida broadcasting. By March of 1984, then-WCPX had seriously outgrown its headquarters on Texas Avenue just north of West Colonial Drive. Now it was about to open its new facility on North John Young Parkway. It was …
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Planet Lee
June 29th, 2004 – Orlando Lee Constantine is getting on my last damn nerve. Earlier today, the state senator from Seminole County was standing next to Jeb Bush as the governor signed the Wekiva Parkway and Protection Act. The measure was sought by environmentalists in order to connect State Highway 429 near Apopka to Interstate 4 near Sanford …
The Flock Returns
July 4, 1987 – Ft. Mill, S.C. I’ve seen crazy. But I’ve never seen it like this. A few days ago, reporter Rick Jackson told me he heard Reverend Jerry Falwell would be visiting Heritage USA today. Rick has been covering the PTL scandal since it broke earlier this year. Despite our otherwise meager resources …
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