Uninsured Alabama residents sign up for health care coverage

Published for Southern Stories: Today's Alabama, A special report from NYU's Pavement Pieces Elihue Claiborne will have healthcare for the first time at the age of 43. He was one of over 600,000 uninsured Alabama residents until a faith-based advocacy group in...

Raging Grannies Ready for “Action,” 2 Years After Occupy Began

Story on anniversary of Occupy Wall Street movement for NBC New York Occupy Wall Street activists rallied in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park on Tuesday to mark two years since their movement began there. Among them: One small group of singing, cane-wielding women who...

Obama’s Inauguration Has Fewer Attendees, But Optimism Prevails

Published as part of 2013 Presidential Inauguration coverage by NYU's Pavement Pieces WASHINGTON,D.C–Despite the decreased hype following Obama’s rise to the Presidency in 2009, President Obama’s message remains just as powerful: the nation must remain optimistic....

Illinois runner takes different route to win Masters Mile

Story I wrote that was published in the Ithaca Journal. Sometimes a role reversal is what it takes to come away victorious, a gamble when it appears you might just be bluffing. But for Charlie Kern, 41, of Elhurst, Ill., it was a change in technique and a gamble that...