Senior reporter. I am responsible for investigative and in-depth reporting as well as the business of health care. Some of the major topics I've covered recently are Marcellus shale drilling, the mortgage crisis, the Bethlehem Area School District swaps fiasco, leaking underground storage tanks, food safety, puppy mills, hospital community benefit and sports concussions.

I've been working here since 1981, so I've been involved in many of the big stories in the Lehigh Valley over the last 30 years. I am a resident of Bethlehem Township.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (www.ire.org)