Walt Shepperd is a veteran of Central New York's political scuffle, having covered government and politics in Syracuse for more than four decades before being asked for press credentials.
He is the Senior Editor of the City Eagle and the Mayor of Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse.
Shepperd is also the producer of the The Media Unit, Central New York national award winning teen performance and production troupe.
Samadee is his alter ego. At least that's the rumor.
Many of the accomplishments of the Driscoll administration are currently seeking ways off the drawing board, easing their ways through bureaucratic procedures, or nearing completion with hardly any notice or mention. As with some of the significant legacies of Tom Young’s tenure, some initiated by Driscoll may eventually never be identified with the initiator. If for no other, however, bells should ring and birds should sing at the Driscoll administration’s decision to bring the Buske Group to town...
Samadee paused at the newspaper racks in the Empire News on Armory Square. Two dollars for The New York Times—in Canada $2.25, maybe higher in some parts of that country, and printed in Buffalo—was enough of a jolt from memories of his junior high school paper route, delivering the Great Grey Lady up and down North Broadway. But five dollars for a Sunday
edition—which he didn’t have time for when he could take that day for himself, and wouldn’t ever have time to catch up with—had become something of an indignity. He scanned the racks. Nothing about Governor David Paterson graced the cover of the New York Post, preserving the streaks of front page double downs (in tandem with the Daily News) established by Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods...
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