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.
Edgar Auden Philbrick, taken by his mother, Lorca Shepperd.
It was a good start. We shook hands. Actually, he gripped my proffered finger briefly in his five month old palm, and we shook. He arrived asleep, but awoke to be fussed over by the folks at the Enchanted Bazaar, before settling into a table in the back corner of the front room of the Dinosaur BarBQ, to be handed back and forth between his mother and father, with one supported stand up. My grandson...
In October 1968, the Senior Editor (SE), then Editor and Publisher of the underground Nickel Review, was posed with a cosmic question. It took only four decades to deliver the answer.
Richie Havens was playing a concert at Cazenovia College, and the SE arrived late for the pre-concert press conference. As he knelt to set up his tape recorder on the coffee table in front of the singer perched on a stool, Havens looked down at him, and interrupting himself in mid sentence, asked, “You’re a Scorpio, huh?” The SE nodded, pleased to be placed in the appropriate constellation.
“You got Sagittarius rising?” Havens asked. The SE shrugged. He honestly didn’t know.
“Find out and tell me next time you see me,” Havens said...
Howie Hawkins didn’t want to run for governor this year. As in recent years—and probably really in the back of his mind during his perennial campaigning over almost two decades—he would rather work on someone else’s campaign, help build the Green Party locally, and play a significant role in landing that illusive electoral victory that he considers his party’s next logical level of local political achievement. But Greens around the state told him he should run, just as local Greens, as well as a significant number of local Democrats, had urged him to run last year for the 4th Common Council District seat...
