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It’s always brighter at the Sun

January 19, 2008 – 8:14 pm

I moved to Las Vegas in September to be a newspaper man. Or at least the “news” in newspaper man. I loved Washington and the Smithsonian, but I really wanted to work for a news organization. Out of the blue, I was invited to be part of a new, world-class team building a newspaper Web…

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Boom!

November 14, 2007 – 12:23 am

Last night I saw my first building implosion. After 65 years standing on the Strip, the Frontier came down in about eight seconds. My work buddies Zach Wise and Hepi Mita shot this video of the event: I was standing behind Sun journalists Richard Brian and Matt Toplikar when they made this time-lapse sequence. Needless…

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Vegas Baby!

August 28, 2007 – 2:29 am

After six years in the District of Columbia, I’m packing my bags for Las Vegas. I’ve accepted a position at the Las Vegas Sun, where I’ll get to combine my journalism and Web skills. I expect big things to come out this little paper. I leave D.C. at the end of next week. Stay tuned…

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Favorite projects

Decision Stations

The two banks of "Decision Station" kiosks on the Asia Trail exhibit at the Smithsonian National Zoo illustrate a very import message: conservation is hard. More

Flight Delay Calculator

Want to know the best times to fly in and out of Las Vegas? How about which airlines and cities tend to have the fewest delays? Conceived on a Friday, a geek, a designer and a computer-assisted reporter visualized FAA data for Sunday publication. View interactive

CityLab

CityLab is a proof-of-concept data exploration site I built in Django that allows users to compare 65 Bay Area cities using a mix of demographic and esoteric data. Visit site

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