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- Jonathan Barnes
- I am a Pittsburgh journalist and freelance writer, a correspondent for Engineering News-Record and a stringer for Reuters, The New York Times, and a regular contributor to The Cooperator. I am a former longtime freelancer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a former contributor to Carnegie Mellon Today. I have been a real estate columnist and stringer for Pittsburgh Business Times, and a bylined stringer for Fortune, the New York Daily News, and Newsday. I also have been a stringer for Wall Street Market Report. I contribute to other publications and have done business writing for engineering, real estate, PR and marketing firms. I am a former reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a former editor/reporter for the Butler Eagle. I have published more than 2,300 stories in numerous publications, including Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Pittsburgh Magazine and Philadelphia Weekly. I am a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. To contact me for work, email pittsburghreporter@yahoo.com, or call 412-867-8385.
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i am older than you kid, but i loved the story. a few years ago, i was at the club i belong to and a man i saw there kept looking over at the table where we all were sitting. he came ove and said,"sherry, is that you?" turns out he was my parent's paperboy when i was growing up. we are friends now. life is strange. odd that he still recognised me after many years. i still recall the little square tabs that you'd get after you paid the paperboy.
I love it when people call me kid, because it makes me feel younger.
I dated a girl in college whose paper I once delivered, when we were much younger.
I remember those little square tabs, too, and the satisfyingly crunchy way they would rip off of the collection card. Being a paperboy was a highly tactile experience. Some kids still are delivering the paper daily, like in my old newspaper worktown of Butler, Pa.
I think the Pittsburgh kids are missing out.
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