Award winners
		Quality of elder care: Investigation into residential care homes for the elderly. <pdf> Won 2nd Place in CA AP News Executive Council for investigative reporting.
		Chronic Care, Chronic Costs: Homeless frequent health users drive up costs and stay sick. Second place in 2006 Association of Health Care Journalists national contest, small newspaper group.<pdf> <html>
		Not Ready to Retire: Predicting baby boomers' future needs in Solano County. Won First place in California Associate Press Executive News Council public service category for small newspapers in 2006. <pdf>
		Fieldwork for All: First-person account of working side-by-side with immigrant field hands. Won third place for explanatory reporting in Inland Press Association 2007 national contest. <html> <slideshow>
		Road to Recovery: Profiles of people with mental illness who could benefit from new funding in California won First place in feature writing for small newspapers from the California Newspaper Publisher's Association, 2005. <pdf> <html>

2008
		Medical Spending: Dartmouth Atlas reveals wide discrepencies in spending at hospitals nationwide. <html>
		Nonprofit debate: A review of hospital patient data shows SLO County for-profit Tenet hospitals provide majority of care to the less fortunate. <html>

Hardly the Golden Years: A look at what it's like for elderly residents who rely entirely on Social Security for support. <html>

One Stumble from Despair: Poverty is increasing on the Central Coast, and immigrant families live in substandard housing. <html>

2007

Transplant Nurses: Surgeon Hootan Roozrokh faces three felonies for a failed organ harvest in 2006, but several nurses unquestionably went against their normal protocols that night, too. <html>

Fostering a dozen: A Paso Robles couple takes in and raises 11 foster children under one roof. <slideshow>

Spanning the diagnosis: A micro-local look at changes in Autism diagnosis and treatment over 30 years. <pdf>

2006

Diabesity: Why America's weight problem affects us all and what we can do about it. <pdf>

Falling from Foster Care: Foster youth leave system without a safety net. <pdf>

Newspaper Writing

Magazine writing