Catching up on more than two weeks of work

Have no fear, I’m still here.

Don’t think I’ve abandoned my blog just yet. Consider it a good thing that I’ve been busy with work nearly every day since my last post. More work means more experience – and more money.

So let’s play catch up.

Last Monday was my first time tackling the City of Port St. Lucie alone. In addition to a story and a brief from the city council meeting, I also was assigned to write stories from the planning and zoning meeting and the mayor’s annual state of the city address.

Luckily, the meetings began at 1:30 p.m., followed by the address at 4. I got home around 5:30 and had just a few hours to eat dinner and make deadline. My stories and brief ran on the front and inside of the St. Lucie County section.

Here are the links to the stories on TCPalm.com:

• “Land swap to be negotiated”
• “PSL made progress in 2008, mayor says”
• “Paintball park gets OK”

Unfortunately, the brief about more parking spaces being added to a charter school that will be built in St. Lucie West isn’t available online. If I find it, I’ll update this post with its link.

The following two weeks were a blur of assignments. Here are the links to those stories:

• “PSL to add $3.1M to Crosstown Parkway project”
• “PSL to buy, fix, sell homes in foreclosure”
• “Experts talk about how to go green”
• “Girl Scouts get a kick out of karate”
• “446 acres may be rezoned”
• “Tours forming for this week’s ‘Ghosts of Fort Pierce Past'”
• “7 still in running for police chief”
• “Top cop candidates down to 3”
• “More inmates may pick up trash – but questions remain over costs”

There’s a lot coming up in the next couple months before the year’s end, which means there’s a lot for my blog.

Stay tuned.