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Paved with Gold

The Unappreciated World of Highway Finance

What Readers Like and Respond To

It was a tired old column that Boston Globe editors killed in 1991. “Starts & Stops” had run for a couple of years weekly in the Metro/Region section, starting out…

Digging Out News at Boston’s Big Dig

Peter M. Zuk is the Project Director for what we refer to as the largest public works project under way in the United States, the Big Dig. Except for the…

A Reporter Becomes a Seminarian

As I write this, I have just voluntarily given up my job as a reporter at The Sacramento Bee and left the profession of journalism that nurtured me for 21…

A Seminarian Becomes a Reporter

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Old Fashioned Jew, Old Fashioned Reporter

Perhaps I was too flip in my answer to a frequent question. People asked how the editors at The Milwaukee Journal dealt with the fact that I observe the Jewish…

Every journalist Has a Credo

The precise moment journalism and religion came together for me was my senior year in college. I was in the library, reading The New York Times. There on page one…

Trials of a Jehovah’s Witness

From the third grade on, I knew that I wanted to write. From early childhood, when my mother taught me the Lord’s Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the 100th Psalm,…

How Religious Are Journalists?

In the face of mounting evidence of public distrust in journalists and their work, reasons and remedies for the problem abound. According to one line of thought, the problem stems…

Back to Church Through the Newsroom

I am not sure what influence my religious faith has had on my journalism. As I think about it, maybe it was the other way around. It may be that…