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By the way, the Daily News-Record site has a new feature. When you click on a reporter’s byline, it links to a new page that has all my contact information and a list of all the stories that have made it to the web (which by the way, is probably only two-thirds or less of […]

Several new clips are posted to the clips page, most written in the last several months.
The resume page is also updated with new awards added.

Thanks to all the new visitors popping into the site. This whole thing was envisioned as a means of professional contact, a way to keep other journalist friends and editors updated with my work, as well as my family since they’re so far away. I’ve never promised to be as savvy […]

My word, I thought I would never doubt google. It’s hard to imagine doing my job without it. Lame, I know. But the phone book is downright archaic.
So we google. So often, in fact, that the brand is synonymous with searching, like kleenex with tissue and xerox with copies. I hate to say it, […]

Park On Ice
Drive Reels From Freakish Storms
By Kelly Jasper

It’s quiet up on Skyline Drive. There’s the occasional hum of chain saws, the beep of a bucket truck backing up, and the ominous thunder of falling trees.
But there aren’t many cars or hikers, and even fewer campers.
A sign at the Thornton Gap Entrance Station announces […]

Today, through the editor’s grapevine I hear, “Kelly, we need a story on the PS threes tonight.” So I nodded, “Oh yeah, of course. Sure thing.”
Truth be told, I didn’t know what a PS threes was. We planned to talk about it, but calls came in, meetings started and other news beckoned.
Plan B: Walk over […]

It’s always interesting to me which of my stories generate the most traffic.
As I’m sure it is with most jobs, sometimes work that I’d call brilliant will just sit there while other projects that are just initially blips on the radar screen will generate enormous response. So it was with this, which more than a […]

First, go back and refer to this post: But He’s a Dog.
Okay, now read this.
Taz, the dog (note: not “our” dog, because that implies I have some sort of ownerhip and thus responsibility for this phenomenon) has, get this …. a Web site.
My sister says he needs one. After all, we all have one. […]