Larry King Turns Out to be a Very Likable Guy

Had a chance to interview Larry King last week. He's doing a book tour, and so took questions for fifteen minutes from me at CNN, followed no doubt by fifteen minutes with another reporter from some other part of the country, and so on. Still, I found myself liking the guy, despite his hunger forContinue reading “Larry King Turns Out to be a Very Likable Guy”

Ojai Activists to Launch Local Currency (maybe)

Don't often get to announce that a newspaper story I wrote for the Ventura County Star made the front page of the Sunday edition. Pretty thrilling for a late-blooming ink-stained wretch. Here's the lede: Ojai activists are hoping to launch a new form of local money as soon as this year, but no one knowsContinue reading “Ojai Activists to Launch Local Currency (maybe)”

Heroic Steelhead Climbs Notoriously Difficult Fish Ladder, Survives

True story, written for the Ventura County Star yesterday by me…find it here. And here's a pic of the heroic fish. Almost asked the biologist, Steve Howard, who is holding the 28-inch fish, if they thought of giving him a name…but that would be too cute. Gotta be a hardened journo.