Home

Scott Bland - Summer 2009

Scott BlandScott BlandI am a senior at Stanford University majoring in history, but I have been a journalist a lot longer than I have been a historian. My first big scoop was an exclusive interview with the principal of my elementary school more than 10 years ago.

Since then, I have worked for the Ithaca Journal (my hometown paper in New York), the Los Altos (Calif.) Town Crier and the National Journal, and I have been a writer and an editor for school newspapers in high school and in college at the Stanford Daily.

I write whatever news comes my way, but I am particularly interested in politics, science and technology, and environmental issues - especially when the three intersect. I also like to write about sports and have covered two NCAA Final Four teams at Stanford.

In addition to print journalism, I work for KZSU, Stanford's campus radio station, as a play-by-play broadcaster for the men's and women's soccer teams, and I narrated and produced an audio essay about online education for the station last year. I have also blogged for SportingNews.com.

 

**

Postal Service considering dramatic changes to right financial ship

Submitted on August 6, 2009 - 5:24pm.
WASHINGTON - Rain? Check. Snow? No problem. The same will go, as always, for sleet and hail. But delivering mail on Saturdays is contributing to unprecedented financial difficulties for the United States Postal Service.
» read more

Radio stations would pay fees to performers under proposed law

Submitted on August 4, 2009 - 8:21pm.
WASHINGTON - Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was more jovial than the body's typical session, but members of the radio broadcasting industry heard little to lighten their hearts as the committee pushed forward with the Performance Rights Act.
» read more

Carbon reduction supporters link clean energy and national security

Submitted on July 30, 2009 - 4:20pm.
WASHINGTON - After clean air and green jobs, add national security to the list of reasons  supporters are touting legislation to reduce carbon emissions.
» read more

Kerry focused on international challenge of climate change legislation

Submitted on July 29, 2009 - 5:13pm.
Click on photo to enlarge or download: Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is hopeful that China and the United States will cooperate to curb carbon emissions and build a global economy based on clean energy. SHFWire photo by Scott BlandWASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., wants China to skip the telegraph ..
» read more

Arguments for congressional continuity fall on deaf ears in the House

Submitted on July 24, 2009 - 3:09pm.
WASHINGTON - Try as they might, witnesses before a House Judiciary subcommittee Thursday simply could not get members excited about the specter of their own violent deaths.
» read more

Gregoire brings practical experience to D.C. climate debate

Submitted on July 21, 2009 - 6:08pm.
WASHINGTON - Four governors, including Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, testified before a Senate committee Tuesday on the viability of a clean energy economy.
» read more

Inhofe strikes a different tone in this climate debate

Submitted on July 16, 2009 - 3:15pm.
Click on photo to enlarge or download: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., consults papers during a hearing Thursday on cap and trade legislation. His criticisms about the science of global warming have given way to economic arguments. SHFWire photo by Scott BlandWASHINGTON - Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is ..
» read more

Young progressives plan for the future at Washington conference

Submitted on July 9, 2009 - 11:05am.
WASHINGTON - Jeans and T-shirts ruled the day at the Omni Shoreham Hotel Wednesday as more than 1,000 young people converged for the fifth Campus Progress National Conference, an all-day event focused on youth activism and advancing the progressive agenda.
» read more

Mr. Fetterman goes to Washington

Submitted on July 7, 2009 - 6:33pm.
Click on photo to enlarge or download: Braddock, Pa., Mayor John Fetterman stands in an abandoned steel mill in a photo that was part of the Environmental Defense Fund’s ad campaign in support of cap and trade legislation.WASHINGTON - Four Cabinet secretaries and a governor testified before the ..
» read more

Former crown prince, eclipsed as voice for reform, speaks out on Iran

Submitted on June 23, 2009 - 5:29pm.
WASHINGTON - Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former shah of Iran, offered his thoughts on the turmoil in Iran and hinted at his future plans with an emotional speech Monday.
» read more
Syndicate content