The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal’s investigation into the culture, politics and laws around drinking in that state, “Wasted in Wisconsin,” has been awarded a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “Lifesavers” public service award.
Additionally, the state Senate just passed a bill “requiring more drivers to install ignition interlock devices on their vehicles and to make some fourth [...]

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The Commercial Appeal just won an APME First Amendment Citation for its searchable database of handgun carry permit holders who live in Tennessee and stories about the felons with guns and other folks with violent histories who nonetheless obtained permits.
A colleague (who left the newspaper a few months ago) posted the original data on the [...]

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The Governors Highway Safety Association is recognizing Wasted in Wisconsin with a 2009 Peter K. O’Rourke Special Achievement Award. Like I said before, when it won a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Award for Safety, it was great being part of the project and working with so many awesome people.
My contributions to the project:

Alcohol and [...]

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Tootin’ my own horn again. I was lucky enough to have worked on this great project — Wasted in Wisconsin — last summer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It examines the state’s drinking culture and its human repercussions.
Now it’s won a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Award for Safety.
It was a hell of an undertaking, [...]

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An investigation I worked on this past summer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won second place in the Milwaukee Press Club’s 2008 Excellence in Journalism Awards in the Best Investigative Story or Series category.
The story, Race Gap Found in Pothole Patching, found that after an especially rough winter, there was a correlation between the [...]

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