The Buckingham Herald Tribblog

For now, enjoy the pieces I have below. I will be putting much more together over the coming weeks. Stick with me, people. (Along those lines, I was surprised to see the numbers of readers jumped right back up to pre-hiatus levels. A big thanks to all of you who read, and I will try to keep giving you a blog worth reading. And to Matt!, it’s good to be back; thanks for the kind words.)

One small issue has gotten under my skin:

For the story I just wrote about homeless people sleeping in Lubber Run Park (see the link below), I had to call Det. Crystal Nosal in the Police Department's media relations office. She would not give me the first names of officers I had spoken with, without first getting their approval.

It was a small thing, and I am guessing that had I asked the officers themselves when I spoke with them (as I should have asked), they would have given me their first names. They were both really friendly. Honestly, they may have even said their names and I just missed them.

So this did not seem to be a situation where anyone was hiding, but it just left me feeling a little icky. Det. Steve Gomez and Mr. John Lisle, when they were in the media relations department, gave out names. I am hoping I can convince Det. Nosal to do the same. Names mean a lot to a journalist.

If you can believe this, my townhouse in Buckingham (for those of you who didn’t read two weeks ago, my family and I moved six blocks into Arlington Forest) did not sell over the last two weeks, so I am running the ad again:

Headlines from Earlier in the Week:

Labels: Police, summer

// posted by Steve Thurston @ 9:22 AM