This felt good, I landed my first feature in Friday’s paper. Click here to see the story.
During my first couple weeks on the job, because I was so new to the issues and the scene here, much of my day was basically spent cruising various websites finding whatever interested me that was somehow related to Cambodia. I came across a story in the Boston Globe that tangentially mentioned the fact that only one person of Cambodian descent (Rithy Uong) had ever held public office in the U.S. Rithy served on the city council of Lowell, MA from 1999 to 2005. Continue reading