Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999
I'll be a senior at Ohio University next year. Somehow the last three years flew by. I spent my first two years of college working as a reporter for the daily, independent newspaper, The Post. Most recently I served as the in depth staff editor. Next year brings with it the challenge of being the editor. But that is a challenge I cannot wait to take on. In addition to journalism, I've acquired an interest in politics and am earning a minor in political science. I don't yet have plans for after graduation, but I know they will be in journalism. I am a Baltimore native, but Ohio has become my second home. I spent last summer as an intern at Crain's Cleveland Business, the weekly business publication in Cleveland. And I have spent my free time traveling across the state.
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Reference specialists add the story to pictures' 1,000 words
Submitted on August 10, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ It's stashed away with millions of other images. Just another photo. The browning slice of time shows 11 men and four women on the porch of a train station. They're dressed in their Sunday best. And they just stare. "Why are all these men holding canes? And what are they doing just ..
Maine Officials Take Pride in No. 1 Ranking
Submitted on July 27, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ Maine's new title as the nation's best spot for raising children brought wide smiles Tuesday from Gov. Angus King and Maine's Congressional delegation. "This is a wonderful honor for Maine," King said a press conference in Washington. "This certainly tells the country something we've ..
States Find Out Who's Best for Raising Children
Submitted on July 27, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ For raising children, Maine is the nation's best spot.That's the conclusion of the annual survey by the non-profit Children's Rights Council. "We seek to instill a sense of a friendly competition between the states," said David L. Levy, the council's president, as the group released ..
Peek Inside Smithsonian's Attic Reveals Treasures, Oddities
Submitted on July 21, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ The poison-tipped blow-gun darts are kept in a metal drawer on the first floor. But if you're looking for the 8-foot blow guns - they're upstairs.These relics from South America are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of items that are not on display in the Smithsonian Museums. ..
Famous American Indians Find a Place in Capitol
Submitted on July 19, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ In rare tributes from their states, the figures of three American Indians will soon take their place among the bronze and marble statues of Americans honored in the U.S. Capitol.Bronze statues of Sakakawea from North Dakota, Chief Washakie from Wyoming and Pope from New Mexico will ..
Indian Chief Immortalized in Capitol's Statuary Hall
Submitted on July 19, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ Throughout the 19th century, Chief Washakie put his Shoshone people first.Now, Wyoming - with the help of Washakie's people - will return the favor and place his likeness in the nation's Capitol. "The people will get to know the qualities he possessed and what he did for his people," ..
North Dakota sends Sakakawea on Journey to Capital
Submitted on July 19, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ She was 16 when she led Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the American Northwest.Now, nearly 200 years later, Sakakawea is heading east - to National Statuary Hall in the Capitol. North Dakota has chosen her as its second representative in the 135-year-old collection. "It ..
Foreign Dignitaries Have a Blast During July 4th
Submitted on July 1, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ When Americans celebrate their Independence Day this weekend, some other folks will be crashing the party.All along Embassy Row, diplomats from around the world are planning cookouts, fireworks watching and long weekend excursions - just like their hosts.In fact, the Canadian ..
Schools Tangle With Students' Speech on Web
Submitted on July 1, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ Gene Lolli, principal of Field High School near Akron, Ohio, was shaken by what he saw on his computer screen:Four-letter words. Essays dotted with what Lolli called "disturbing" revelations by students who saw themselves as "outcasts." Sarcastic references to violence.All of it posted ..
White House Tickets are the Hottest Commodity On Capitol Hill
Submitted on June 18, 1999 - 12:00am. Ryan Alessi - Summer 1999WASHINGTON _ "Please! Please! Please!," congressional staff member Rebecca Deguzman begged in a desperate e-mail message to other senatorial staffers. "I need one June 15th and three June 24th's. I want to be creative with trades since I have so little to offer."Deguzman, tour coordinator in the ..
