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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Oct 2, 2008
We feed heavily off the wires, which bring us news from around the globe. Mostly, our newspaper runs wire copy as we receive it, edited only for space. Sometimes, however, editors wants "localization" -- an extra few …
Also tagged: hill air force base
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Sep 19, 2008
Fellow Tribune reporter María Villaseñor and I stood at the door and took a deep breath. "I always said I'd hate to be a door-to-door salesman," she chuckled uncomfortably, "because I didn't even want to have to knock …
Also tagged: iraq, lessons, the fallen
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jul 25, 2008
Jed was clearly stoked. Already, he'd purchased his plane tickets and body armor. Now he was in the market for some advice. He called me on a Wednesday afternoon, about a week before his planned departure to Kuwait …
Also tagged: iraq
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Apr 9, 2008
The Associated Press reports that an Iraqi judicial committee has ordered photographer Bilal Hussein should be freed after early two years in U.S. military custody. Not much other information on this subject yet, but …
Also tagged: iraq, bilal hussein
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Mar 11, 2008
A few key paragraphs from today's news roundup. Iraq is growing less peaceful and tranquil by the day. The past several weeks have seen a return to the kind of horrifying, spectacular violence that the administration's …
Also tagged: iraq, statistics
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Jan 23, 2008
An Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death by a provincial court for distributing "blasphemous" material. Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh's crime? Downloading material from the Internet relating to the role of women in …
Also tagged: afghanistan, terrorism