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.
The old synagogue at Crouse and Harrison may become condos, but no matter what renovations occur inside, any passing by of the majestic stone steps and columns will always be of Salt City. A drafty main theater, always a little dark, long in need of an enclosed orchestra space to balance volume for musicals. An intimate, questionably wired second theater with an atmosphere unmatched for its funk factor. Vast storage spaces and cramped dressing rooms. “It was my Southwest Center at the time,” Ken Jackson remembers of growing up on Harrison Street in the Seventies...
T-shirts heralded the 60th anniversary of Our Lady of Pompei’s annual Election Day Spaghetti Supper, which has become tradition as a lunchtime schmooze for candidates, political junkies and John Nicholson’s Newhouse School students. Stephanie Miner stood in one corner, expressing hopes that the low voter turnout she had been witnessing that morning might increase later in the day. Otis Jennings and Steve Kimatian stood in other corners, anticipating either campaigns to come or retirement from the arena. Campaign 2010 was beginning even before 2009’s results were tabulated...
TAGS: political junkies and John Nicholson, Newhouse School students,Syracuse politics 2009,Howie Hawkins, WellPoint insurance agency,Jessica Crawford,Fanny Villerreal,Stephanie Miner
Thousands of people help set new marks for the Guinness Book every year, the day after Thanksgiving, by emptying Clinton Square in record speed after the downtown Christmas tree lighting ceremony. This year the folks at the Hanover Square Association hope a good number of those people will tarry a bit one block over. They are sponsoring a storefront window design contest that extends the bounds of Hanover Square to the tip of the Atrium in City Hall Commons, south a block on Warren Street and perhaps west on Washington Street down to the copy center at the corner of Salina Street...
A run of almost 60 degree November evenings had Samadee, the Senior Editor, the Has Been and the Wannabe milling around Hanover Square in post-election anticipation. Through the window of World they watched city employees revising resumes, pumping each other for senses of specificity on the risks Stephanie Miner said she would be taking in her campaign commercials.
“Why do they call it Indian Summer?” the Wannabe asked overloudly. “Shouldn’t it be Native American Summer?”
“I think it has to do with the harvest cycle,” the Has Been responded without thinking, “something to do with being closer to the soil, more in tune with nature.” He winced at the thought that he might have created an opening for one of the Wannabe’s rants...
