2010 MSNBC clips

2009 MSNBC clips

• Lack of computer skills foils many job-seekers

• Desperate for cash, lawmakers hit the bottle

• U.S. delayed telling schools about food recalls

• Reporting: Obama projects $900 billion to fix health care

• For presidents, talking to kids can be tricky

• Study: Retail health clinics as good as doctor's office

• Cops, lawmakers send message: Dnt txt & drive

• For class of 2009, degree doesn’t mean a job

• Cash for Clunkers throws some into reverse

• Funny money no laughing matter in recession

• ‘Cash for clunkers’ uncertainty squeezes dealers

• Proposed smoking ban angers some in military

• Some 911 centers can’t keep tabs on cell phones

• Turnover turmoil buffets air-control system
  
  
• Pro-English measures being revived across U.S.
  
  
• Hybrid vehicles’ silence seen as posing peril
  
  
• Galveston still hurting from hurricane’s beating

• Budget crises swamp state after state

• Circus elephants in the legal spotlight

• Falling flat-screen TVs a growing threat for kids
   
• Name game: Too soon for Obama pajamas?
  
  
• Authorities seek to crack down on Craigslist
  
  
• Pork farmers’ plea: Stay away from our pigs!

• Obama touts ‘New Foundation’ for growth

• Schools walk delicate line in swine flu response

• Economy leaves millions of drivers uninsured

• Modern cattle rustlers update Wild West ways

• Recession squeezes day care from both sides

• In Mexico's drug wars, fears of a U.S. front | Video

• Community colleges squeezed from both sides

• DEA to halt medical marijuana raids

• Obama to nation: ‘Day of reckoning has arrived’

• In stimulus plan, how much bang for the buck?

• Stimulus checks scrambling many tax returns

• Smokers burned up over ‘fire-safe cigarettes’

• President Obama makes his way to new office

2009 Consumer Electronics Show

• FCC chief: Don’t delay digital TV switch
• Auto tech takes a big bite from Apple
• At CES, progress comes a step at a time
  
• Low times for high tech as CES opens

Selected archival clips

2008 Presidential Campaign

• Obama to start out with momentum

• Barack Obama elected 44th president

• McCain calls for bailout of homeowners
  

• Biden, Palin clash on Iraq, economy
  

• Bank crisis overshadows defense in first debate
  

• New voting glitches raise concerns in Florida
  

• McCain: End ‘the constant partisan rancor’
  

• Palin fires back at media, ‘Washington elite’
  

• Obama blasts Bush’s ‘failed presidency’
  

• Bush invokes 9/11 as reason to elect McCain
  

• Obama claims historic presidential nomination
  

• Wife stresses Obama’s American values
  

• Palin under ethics investigations in Alaska
  

• Some Texas Republicans to vote for Obama

2008

• Prison officials looking to hang up on inmates

• Unhappy couples staying together as economy makes divorcing too costly

• College security tighter, but is it enough?

• In tough times, layaway makes a comeback

• Hard times are good times at pawnshops
  

• Children of immigrants reshaping America
  

• Bush signs financial bailout bill
  

• Bailout vote stuns Washington, markets
  

• Silver Alerts help track wandering seniors
  

• Students learn hard lesson in school budgets
  

• 911 systems choking on non-emergency calls
  

• Pioneering procedure will get dog back on four legs
  

• Mechanics see ethanol damaging small engines
  

• Foreclosures close the door on family pets
  

• Economy hitting the elderly especially hard
  

• Gay tourism ad causes uproar in S. Carolina
  

• Shortage of teachers means shortage of nurses
  

• Couples get those wedding day recession blues
  

• Unauthorized ATM withdrawals all the rage
  

• Squeezing gas for the very last mile
  

• Rockets’ red glare to dim this Fourth of July
  

• Smile! More and more, you’re on camera
  

• Floodwaters breed hidden health dangers

• Floods create economic catastrophe in Midwest

• Tomato scare means business for local growers

• Jampacked transit systems running on fumes

• High costs land on school cafeteria trays

• As gas prices soar, thieves grow more brazen

• Pilots claim airliners forced to fly with low fuel

• Economy takes toll on relief agencies
  

• Shining a light on fluorescent bulbs
  

• Bankrupt lenders throwing away your privacy
  

• Government records incorrectly kill off thousands
  

• As precious metals prices soar, catalytic converters are targets for thieves
  

• Cell phone directory rings alarm bells

• State of the Union: Bush challenges Congress on the economy

• Rising beer prices could leave you tapped out

• ‘Start snitching,’ crime-hit communities urge

2008 Consumer Electronics Show

• For little devices, it’s a big, big show
• Rivals take on iPhone with both barrels
• TV makers in long race to an uncertain finish
• Automakers ready to cash in on technology
• Battle brewing over eliminating all those wires

2007

• Mortgage crisis inflicts collateral damage

• Damaged dogs plucked from the assembly line
  

• Toy recalls turn charities into fun-free zones

• DOT proposes no penalties for runway delays
  

• Cancer ruling heats up immigration debate

• Debate on lower drinking age bubbling up
  

• In the shadow of justice: The Palladium murder

• CIA opens book on a shady past
  

• CIA admits Castro plot OK’d at the top
  

• Tenet claims CIA was a scapegoat for war
  

• The long reach and ambitions of al-Qaida

• Democrats seek to seize initiative on Iraq

Virginia Tech rampage

• Worst U.S. shooting ever kills 33 on Va. campus
  

• College gunman disturbed teachers, classmates

• Gunman sent package to NBC News

• Police: Gunman’s package offers little help

• Spring cold snap not peachy for farmers

• More doctors, insurers asking, ‘Who are you?’

• In the line of fire, cops are on their own

• Litvinenko assassins likely to escape justice

• 'Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?'

• Though not charged, Cheney at center of trial

2006

• That was 2006: The Year of the Sneer

• Election leaves Bush to bob on blue wave

• Democrats turn the tables in Washington

• A textbook case of failure

• At the comics shop, religion goes graphic
  

• Bay Area far from ready for the next ‘Big One’

• Take that, Ben and Jerry

• Nurturing a gay community in the online world

• Hurricane Katrina: Multimedia reports
  

• Hurricane Katrina: Church volunteers show staying power

• Hurricane Katrina: An endangered beacon

• Hurricane Katrina: The complicated politics of the poor
  

• 2006 State of the Union Multimedia Project: Behind the Speech

• A consumer guide to prostitutes is a click away

2005

• Who decides what kids can — and can’t — read?

• To the church, he’s public enemy No. 1

• Spinning in the end zone

• ‘Intelligent design’ faces first big court test

• When you care enough to risk everything ...

• Cosmetic surgery’s bright, shiny new face

• Lessons learned from monkeying with history

• Alternative view says homosexuals can change

• In evangelical world, a liberal view steps up

• Evangelicals prepare for environmental shift

• You can survive being infamous

• Evangelicals rethink their public face

• Day of reckoning for stem cell research nears

• The evolution of a fight to the end

• The stirring on the mount
  

• Time for new ground rules

• When sports idols go bad

• It’s Albert’s world. We just live in it.

• Nutty professor or one cool dude?

• The faith-at-work movement finds a home

• Walking the walk, on the assembly line

• Scandals! Here we go again ...

• In sports, God is always in the game

2004

• Lessons in perspective: 2004 in review

• And God said: Let there be lite

• White House claims Bush wins, but Kerry balks

• Staying on the right side of a political movement

• John Kerry — man in the middle

• For Bush, a hunt for the right voters

• God on the ballot

• CIA seeks probe of White House

• It’s a dog’s life — really. Take steps to protect it.

• Damsels in distress: The curious case of missing white women

• Guilt and innocence in uniform

• Tracking campaign money, door to door

• Here’s wishing you a happy Valentine’s, even though it’s a day of bad breath, heart disease and death

2003

• The old man and the screeds

• Goodbye, 2003. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

• ‘Circumstantial’ — the Scarlet C?

• Political salaries: a delicate balance

• Breaking the bad news: When a service member dies

2002 and earlier

• 2002: A year on the edge

• The cutthroat art of the deal

• 9/11: U.S. sought attack on al-Qaida: White House given plan days before Sept. 11
  

• 9/11: One year later: Are we safer?

• 9/11: Few answers for suicide terrorism

• 9/11: Aviation security test remains secret

• 9/11: Air security loophole remains open

• Election 2000: Florida will decide the election

• Election 2000: GOP returns, and capital yawns

• Election 2000: Pomp competes with protests

Soccer coverage

Through the 1990s, I wrote widely on international soccer for the Knight-Ridder News Service, The Washington Post and the WP-LAT news service, which syndicated my weekly World of Soccer column for two years. Most of these pieces have been lost to time, but following are representative examples, including the final World of Soccer feature from 1998:

• The World of Soccer: Final Column Washington Post, September 29, 1998

• World Cup 1998: In Paris, the '70s live again Washington Post, July 13, 1998

• 1998 World Cup Preview Special Report

• A cup that holds a world of change Washington Post, June 3, 1998

• Soccer should do right: Insure players, pay better Washington Post, January 6, 1997

• Take U.S. soccer team seriously? Not in these duds Syndicated, June 5, 1994

And finally ...

This opinion piece generated many letters to the editor of The Washington Post, some even from fellow staff members:

• Snob Journalists: The Ink-Stained Wretches of Yore Are the Wretched Elites of Today June 23, 1996