Now 82 years old, I’m working on a documentary titled “The Financial Abuse of Older People.” It still surprises me that so many Americans, after a lifetime of work, are…
2: Showers for Those Without Homes
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The homeless situation in Los Angeles has actually gotten worse since I did a story on it for PBS SoCal. Every day in parts of the city, a truck that…
3: When the Twin Towers Came Down
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On September 11th, 2001, I was vacationing at my sister’s place on Long Island about 110 miles from New York City. Just as I was getting ready to play golf…
4: The Dodger Hurler Who Fought for a Hotel Room
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I’ve been connected to the Dodgers baseball team ever since I grew up living a couple of blocks from Ebbets Field where the Brooklyn Dodgers played their games. One of…
5: Hawking Hot Dogs
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My first actual job at age 15, in 1955, was selling hot dogs at Brooklyn Dodger games. One day I was chased out of the ball park by one of…
6: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
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This was the first newsroom where I worked as a TV reporter, KXTV Sacramento. There was one woman on the reporting staff, a former Miss Texas. But she worked strictly…
7: Michael Jackson and the $50,000 Paparazzi Photos
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My station in Los Angeles sent us to Las Vegas in 2005 to see if we could locate Michael Jackson, who was about to be charged with sexual abuse in…
8: Anchorman Kidnapped
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At my station in Sacramento, the popular news anchorman Dick Cable was kidnapped by one of his fans. The news director who engineered this fiasco was Tom Capra, son of…
9: The Sad Tale of a Friend Who Wanted to Do Some Good
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Mike Prokes One of my reporter friends at the Sacramento station was Mike Prokes, a quiet and intense guy who grew up in California’s fertile Central Valley. We often went…
10: LA Legends – Langer’s Deli
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There’s been a steady decline in the number of kosher-style delis in Los Angeles. Even though pastrami and corned beef sandwiches are delicious, they’re not considered the kind of healthy…
11: TV News History
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Here’s a video story that looked back at a portion of TV News history in Los Angeles. It aired on my PBS SoCal show, the “Drive-By Economist.”
12: Goodbye, KNBC
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I spent 31 years working for the NBC station in Los Angeles. They sent me many places to cover news stories, it was often interesting and exciting. Covered some big…
