Hitting a sports store near you

Michael Vick’s No. 7 Eagles jersey expected to be a hit in the midstate
by KARI ANDREN, Of The Patriot-News
Wednesday August 19, 2009
When this year’s NFL season kicks off, midstate Eagles fans will be able to don jerseys and T-shirts supporting the team’s newest player, Michael Vick, even though Dick’s Sporting Goods stores won’t be selling [...]

Since Jan. 2008…

Still displaced
Nearly two years after a fire left four row houses charred and waterlogged, three of the homes are still not ready for the residents to move back in.

Monday, August 17, 2009

BY KARI ANDREN, The Patriot-News

Nearly two years after a fire burned four row houses along Poplar Street in Wormleysburg, only one home has been [...]

Latest Venture

I officially started as a reporter with the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., on July 23.
For the most part I’m a general assignment reporter covering New Cumberland, Lemoyne, Wormleysburg and the surrounding areas, as well as the West Shore School District.
I can’t decide if I should continue posting my stories here.  Sometimes it’s difficult to find [...]

Final pot update of my Illinois stint

Legalized marijuana will have to wait in Illinois
Bill’s sponsor plans to work hard over the summer to muster support in House
By Kari Andren
POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU       June 5, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – Illinois lawmakers advanced a plan to legalize marijuana for medicinal use further than ever this spring, but proponents will have to work through the summer [...]

Tax hike no easy sell

Quinn request for tax hike hits brick wall in state House
By Kevin McDermott and Kari Andren
POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU       June 1, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Pat Quinn’s quest to fill a massive state budget deficit with an income tax hike appeared to all but collapse Sunday, as the Illinois House soundly defeated his tax proposal and [...]

Medical Marijuana passes — barely

Illinois Senate OKs Medicinal Pot
By Kari Andren
POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU       May 28, 2009

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Senate voted Wednesday to authorize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, marking the state’s first-ever step toward legalizing the drug.
The vote was only the second time the proposal has reached a vote in either Illinois legislative chamber. [...]

Patrick Collins was not happy

It’s been quite a while since I posted any of my stories.  So long, in fact, that some of them are no longer available on the Post-Dispatch’s Web site.  So here’s what’s available when you search the archives.  Is it wrong that I’m unwilling to pay $2.95 each for my own stories?  I have them [...]