
Investigative Journalist at Capitol Monitor
Greenville, North Carolina Area

Investigative Journalist at Capitol Monitor
Greenville, North Carolina Area
Experienced in legislative protocol, literally raised on Capitol Hill, having finished High School in the Library of Congress. Officially, an lunar and planetary scientist, specializing in Earth's Moon, professionally dedicated to liberty and transparency in public policy.
"Translates the technical" for decision makers.
"The challenge of overcoming increasing noise, in a market being transformed by Media driven by consumer choice rather than a lowest common denominator of what was once known as broadcasting is the marketing challenge of our age."
Presently, after serving the fourth of four extraordinarily talented minority caucus leaders between 1999 and 2008; former assistant to the U.S. House majority leader (1979-1982); Newspaper and magazine publisher and edtor.
As an internationally acknowledged expert on Earth's Moon, Moderator of the recent merger of three original Lunar Research Discussion Groups, and sought after for consultations by those selecting potential lunar landing sites for critical research in the context of recommendations made by the National Academy of Science (2007).
"Someone in the Lunar Pioneer Group is going to be the next Lindbergh and another the next Bill Gates."
Communications: Radio Theory; Interpersonal "Body Language" (Gesture); Space Science; Selenology; High Energy Astronomy; "punching through Noise by developing working strategies to promote action"
"Action unites; words often divide." - C.S. Lewis
(Public Policy industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
It's all about transparency. Understanding that there is so much information and so little time, we hope that the Capitol Monitor can become a portal to which citizens can go to know more about how their dollars are used to create public policy in North Carolina, making them better equipped to communicate with their elected officials, and to make informed choices as taxpayers.
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer & physicist (1564 - 1642)
(Think Tanks industry)
July 1976 — Present (33 years 1 month)
At the merging of two Discussion, Experimental, Bulletin Board and Email consortiums, devoted to promoting Lunar Exploration, Lunar Pioneer was formally launched in 2007, three decades in the making. Rather than self-promotion, "the Pioneers" stay on the cutting edge of Conference research, only occassionally publishing to 1. Suggest patterns of promising trends, and, 2. Encourage new and also established lunar and planetary scholars to continue promising trends
New technology, communications theory, Astronomy, space sciences, Earth's Moon, commercial space, space exploration, home networks, political communications