Portfolio
A brief selection of my work through the years. For a complete archive of available articles, visit my Authory page.
AARP Members Edition
A selection of articles I edited for AARP's Members Edition, a major digital initiative that the organization launched in July 2024:
AARP’s Favorite Music Albums of 2024 (So Far)
AARP Smart Guide to Electric Cars
25 Great Ways to Manage Your Stress
AARP Smart Guide to Solo Travel
25 Ways to Handle Grief and Loss
Smart Guide to Train Travel
Smart Guide to Aging in Place
AARP Smart Guide to Pet Adoption
How a Fourth-Generation Cobbler Became a TikTok Sensation
Why Gen X is Haunted by Traumatic Movies and TV Shows
Pop-culture quizzes I created or collaborated on for AARP:
Our ‘Young Frankenstein’ Quiz is a Roll in Ze Hay
Our Classic Commercial Quiz Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking
Save All Your Love For Our Whitney Houston Quiz
AARP’s Favorite Music Albums of 2024 (So Far)
AARP Smart Guide to Electric Cars
25 Great Ways to Manage Your Stress
AARP Smart Guide to Solo Travel
25 Ways to Handle Grief and Loss
Smart Guide to Train Travel
Smart Guide to Aging in Place
AARP Smart Guide to Pet Adoption
How a Fourth-Generation Cobbler Became a TikTok Sensation
Why Gen X is Haunted by Traumatic Movies and TV Shows
Pop-culture quizzes I created or collaborated on for AARP:
Our ‘Young Frankenstein’ Quiz is a Roll in Ze Hay
Our Classic Commercial Quiz Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking
Save All Your Love For Our Whitney Houston Quiz
Freelance Work
Freelance writing assignments and other work:
State and Local Governments Make Progress Against Ransomware (StateTech magazine)
State and Local Governments Make Progress Against Ransomware (StateTech magazine)
The Institute for Justice
I contributed line editing, copy editing, proofreading and display text to a major research report and a few articles for academic/policy journals:
Unaccountable: How Qualified Immunity Shields a Wide Range of Government Abuses, Arbitrarily Thwarts Civil Rights, And Fails to Fulfill Its Promises
Good Fences? Good Luck
Are Municipal Fines and Fees Tools of Stategraft? (link opens as PDF)
Does the Growth of Food Trucks Threaten the Sustainability of Restaurants?
Unaccountable: How Qualified Immunity Shields a Wide Range of Government Abuses, Arbitrarily Thwarts Civil Rights, And Fails to Fulfill Its Promises
Good Fences? Good Luck
Are Municipal Fines and Fees Tools of Stategraft? (link opens as PDF)
Does the Growth of Food Trucks Threaten the Sustainability of Restaurants?
Development Magazine and NAIOP's Market Share Blog
Stories written for Development magazine, the association's quarterly periodical for its members:
‘We Cannot Allow the Best to Overwhelm the Good’: A Conversation with Joel Kotkin
The Future of Electric Vehicle Charging: A Guide for Commercial Real Estate Developers
What’s the Future of Cities in the Aftermath of COVID-19?
What Lies Ahead for Commercial Real Estate?
Autonomous Trucking Holds Promise
When Retail and Industrial Merge
Industrial Market Analysis: Measuring Where to Invest
A 'Calming Presence' at the Helm
All Eyes on the Global Supply Chain
Suburbs, Office Space and -- Peanut Butter?
Suburbs, Edge Cities and Santa Fe: A Conversation with Joel Garreau
The Future of the Office is Healthier, More Engaging Spaces
Survey Shows Progress in Diversity Efforts in Real Estate Investment Management
Leveraging Diverse Teams to Build a Profitable Culture of Inclusion
The Vaccines are Here. What Happens Next?
Life Sciences Real Estate Surges Amid Pandemic
A Difficult Forecast for Commercial Real Estate
Doing CRE During a Crisis: Remote Work, New Technologies
Industrial Emerges from Pandemic in Relatively Good Health
'This is Not a Financial Crisis. This is a Natural Disaster.'
Will Teleworking Change the Future of the Office?
Pain Spreads Wide in Retail and Hospitality
COVID-19 Could Lead to Cleaner, Healthier Buildings
COVID-19 Challenges: Approaching a Mortgage Lender for Help
The Cold Storage Market is Heating Up
District Center: A Downtown D.C. Office Reborn as a Smart Building
Co|Lab: A Hands-On Space for Innovative Construction
Coworking Flexes Its Muscles
Commercial Real Estate and the Big-Data Deluge
What Do Warehouse Employees Want?
Should Construction Consider a High-Tech Makeover?
CRE Trends, Economics and More: A Wide-Ranging Conversation
IRS, Treasury Start to Clarify Qualified Opportunity Zone Regulations
Archive of posts from NAIOP's Market Share blog
‘We Cannot Allow the Best to Overwhelm the Good’: A Conversation with Joel Kotkin
The Future of Electric Vehicle Charging: A Guide for Commercial Real Estate Developers
What’s the Future of Cities in the Aftermath of COVID-19?
What Lies Ahead for Commercial Real Estate?
Autonomous Trucking Holds Promise
When Retail and Industrial Merge
Industrial Market Analysis: Measuring Where to Invest
A 'Calming Presence' at the Helm
All Eyes on the Global Supply Chain
Suburbs, Office Space and -- Peanut Butter?
Suburbs, Edge Cities and Santa Fe: A Conversation with Joel Garreau
The Future of the Office is Healthier, More Engaging Spaces
Survey Shows Progress in Diversity Efforts in Real Estate Investment Management
Leveraging Diverse Teams to Build a Profitable Culture of Inclusion
The Vaccines are Here. What Happens Next?
Life Sciences Real Estate Surges Amid Pandemic
A Difficult Forecast for Commercial Real Estate
Doing CRE During a Crisis: Remote Work, New Technologies
Industrial Emerges from Pandemic in Relatively Good Health
'This is Not a Financial Crisis. This is a Natural Disaster.'
Will Teleworking Change the Future of the Office?
Pain Spreads Wide in Retail and Hospitality
COVID-19 Could Lead to Cleaner, Healthier Buildings
COVID-19 Challenges: Approaching a Mortgage Lender for Help
The Cold Storage Market is Heating Up
District Center: A Downtown D.C. Office Reborn as a Smart Building
Co|Lab: A Hands-On Space for Innovative Construction
Coworking Flexes Its Muscles
Commercial Real Estate and the Big-Data Deluge
What Do Warehouse Employees Want?
Should Construction Consider a High-Tech Makeover?
CRE Trends, Economics and More: A Wide-Ranging Conversation
IRS, Treasury Start to Clarify Qualified Opportunity Zone Regulations
Archive of posts from NAIOP's Market Share blog
Key Media & Research
Award-winning stories from Door & Window Market magazine, which covers the North American residential fenestration industry:
Drugs in the Workplace: An Issue of Substance (2019 ASBPE Bronze Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Best News Analysis)
The Factory of the Future (2019 ASBPE Bronze Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Technical Article)
Lights Out for Energy Star? It Could Happen ...(2018 ASBPE National Bronze Medal and Mid-Atlantic Region Gold Medal Winner, Best News Analysis)
Robotics, Automation and More (2018 ASBPE Silver Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Single-Topic Coverage by a Team)
Venezuela Seizes U.S. Glass Factory (2017 Finalist, Jesse H. Neal Awards, Best News Coverage)
Where Have All the Workers Gone? (2016 ASBPE Silver Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Feature Article - General Interest)
A brief selection of breaking-news stories, blog posts and other items that first appeared online:
Window Company Gives Away $2M in Baseball Promotion
Steves Awarded $58.6 Million in Lawsuit Against Jeld-Wen
Beyonce, Jay Z and a Soft-Lite Salesman Go to a Basketball Game …
Jeld-Wen CEO Exits as Company Acquires Two Businesses
Ply Gem, Atrium to Combine Into One Company
Ply Gem and Atrium: They Go a Long Way Back
NAM CEO: High-Tech Manufacturing is “New Collar” Work
Modular Construction: Is It the Future?
Graphic Safety Presentation Shows True Cost of Accidents
Lawsuit Raises Questions About Windows Melting Vinyl Siding
A New Take on the "Broken Windows" Theory
Why "Green" Might Turn Off Home Buyers
At Greenbuild, The Buzzword is "Sustainability"
Will it Take a Sea Change to Fix the Skilled-Labor Shortage?
Are Green Building Codes "A Food Label For a Building"?
Demography is Destiny, Says AAMA Keynote Speaker
This Just In: America Still Loves the Suburbs
Who "Owns" Legally Binding Construction Codes?
A Factory is the Quietest Place to Die in America
Study Raises Questions About Costs of Energy-Efficiency Programs
Police: Quanex’s Tim Harris Died After Forklift Incident
Republic Windows & Doors Sit-In Leader Ricky Maclin Dies
Death at Texas Aluminum Extruding Company Under Investigation
This All-Glass House Shatters Assumptions About 'Green' Construction
Building Safer Schools After Sandy Hook: An Architect's View
Drugs in the Workplace: An Issue of Substance (2019 ASBPE Bronze Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Best News Analysis)
The Factory of the Future (2019 ASBPE Bronze Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Technical Article)
Lights Out for Energy Star? It Could Happen ...(2018 ASBPE National Bronze Medal and Mid-Atlantic Region Gold Medal Winner, Best News Analysis)
Robotics, Automation and More (2018 ASBPE Silver Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Single-Topic Coverage by a Team)
Venezuela Seizes U.S. Glass Factory (2017 Finalist, Jesse H. Neal Awards, Best News Coverage)
Where Have All the Workers Gone? (2016 ASBPE Silver Medal Winner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Feature Article - General Interest)
A brief selection of breaking-news stories, blog posts and other items that first appeared online:
Window Company Gives Away $2M in Baseball Promotion
Steves Awarded $58.6 Million in Lawsuit Against Jeld-Wen
Beyonce, Jay Z and a Soft-Lite Salesman Go to a Basketball Game …
Jeld-Wen CEO Exits as Company Acquires Two Businesses
Ply Gem, Atrium to Combine Into One Company
Ply Gem and Atrium: They Go a Long Way Back
NAM CEO: High-Tech Manufacturing is “New Collar” Work
Modular Construction: Is It the Future?
Graphic Safety Presentation Shows True Cost of Accidents
Lawsuit Raises Questions About Windows Melting Vinyl Siding
A New Take on the "Broken Windows" Theory
Why "Green" Might Turn Off Home Buyers
At Greenbuild, The Buzzword is "Sustainability"
Will it Take a Sea Change to Fix the Skilled-Labor Shortage?
Are Green Building Codes "A Food Label For a Building"?
Demography is Destiny, Says AAMA Keynote Speaker
This Just In: America Still Loves the Suburbs
Who "Owns" Legally Binding Construction Codes?
A Factory is the Quietest Place to Die in America
Study Raises Questions About Costs of Energy-Efficiency Programs
Police: Quanex’s Tim Harris Died After Forklift Incident
Republic Windows & Doors Sit-In Leader Ricky Maclin Dies
Death at Texas Aluminum Extruding Company Under Investigation
This All-Glass House Shatters Assumptions About 'Green' Construction
Building Safer Schools After Sandy Hook: An Architect's View
USA TODAY
Headlines from USA TODAY, AARP and elsewhere
A headline for AARP's Members Edition, February 2025.
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A headline for AARP's Members Edition, August 2024.
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Headline for an article that appeared in Cato's Regulation magazine, Spring 2024.
Named USA TODAY's best print headline for July 2014.
A 1D story about sex at the movies. Named USA TODAY's best print headline for May 2014.
A 1A story about 007's unhealthy habits. Named USA TODAY's best print headline for December 2013.
A fun 1A story about changes to 'Monopoly.' Feb. 7, 2013.
USA TODAY's response to Stephen Colbert's "anger" at our new round logo, Sept. 20, 2012.
A 1A cover story on the death of 'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius, Feb. 2, 2012.
A profile of the actor/writer/comedian, Sept. 21, 2011.
The former president reveals his successful diet, Aug. 24, 2011.
A profile of actor Andy Serkis, who portrayed Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" films. Aug. 3, 2011.
A major investigative piece on health-care quality. May 23, 2007.
A quick profile of Cris Judd, who was Jennifer Lopez's boyfriend at the time. June 22, 2001.
Profile of the punk band. March 10, 2003.
Feature story on celebrities who design their own eyewear.
Fascinating, fun story about a book on the most influential fictitious characters from TV and film.
A theater review for the widely panned musical "The Pirate Queen."