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NCPR News Staff: David Sommerstein
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 David Sommerstein, NCPR's roving St. Lawrence Valley/Fort Drum/Tug Hill reporter, began his career in radio, strangely enough, as a high school Spanish teacher in Buffalo. While drilling verb conjugations and teaching a love for Latino culture during the day, he sat in as a late night jazz and Latin DJ at Buffalo's NPR affiliate, WBFO. The radio bug bit, and David found his way to southern Colorado/northern New Mexico (the Taos/Santa Fe area) where he was Program Director, Music Director, Volunteer Coordinator, and "Just About Anything Else You Can Think Of" Director at NPR affiliate KRZA. Since joining NCPR's news department, David has reported from the chilly deck of a St. Lawrence icebreaker, the power-chord filled stage of the High School Rock Band Festival, and the tense Albanian street market of post-war Kosovo with soldiers from Fort Drum. David also gets to fulfill his passion for music of all kinds when he spins world dance and groove music on editions of The Beat Authority. E-mail Recent David Sommerstein stories carried by NPR:
February 15, 2010 | NPR· Unless something changes, prisoners will again be counted in this year's census as residents of the places where they're locked up, not their hometowns. That means more political power for mostly rural and white prison host communities, and less for mostly urban and minority neighborhoods. December 31, 2009 | NCPR· The recession may be officially over, but that's little consolation to people who lost their jobs when it first began. A laid off worker from a Corning plant in Canton, N.Y., has been collecting unemployment and living a thrifty life. She's taken a medical terminology class to become a receptionist in a doctor's office, and now is dipping her toe into the anemic job market. December 2, 2009 | NCPR· Soldiers at Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y., say they are not surprised by the news that more of them will be deploying to Afghanistan. Most of them seem resigned to spending more time in combat, but they say it will be hard on their families. June 11, 2009 | NPR· The bridge, which links the two halves of a Mohawk reservation, was barricaded last week after Mohawks protested a plan to arm Canadian border agents. The flare-up follows growing tension on the border over drug smuggling and human trafficking. April 26, 2009 | NPR· The federal stimulus plan is giving states $5 billion to make leaky homes more energy efficient. But there's a shortage of qualified contractors to do the work, and trainers are scrambling to get more builders up to speed on weatherization. February 20, 2009 | NPR· President Barack Obama made his first foreign trip to the Canadian capital Ottawa on Thursday. One of the city's biggest selling points in winter is a skating canal seven miles long. Some people commute to work on ice skates — and that included one reporter covering Obama's Canadian visit. January 26, 2009 | NPR· Peace activists in Potsdam, N.Y., have held a vigil every Saturday morning on front of the post office for more than six years. Now they are going on hiatus to give President Barack Obama a chance to fulfill his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq.  December 28, 2008 | NPR· Life can be tough for any family when one parent deploys to Iraq or Afghanistan. But what happens when both Mom and Dad go to war at the same time? The Doney family found a creative solution. |
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