Jon Margolis, who is well known for his insightful writing about state politics, will be a regular contributor to VTDigger.org during the upcoming legislative session.
Margolis, former “grand pooh-bah” of Vermont Newsguy.com, published his last blog post at the end of November after a 24-month run in the blogosphere.
It didn’t take long for the Barton-based journalist to find new outlets for his work: In addition to writing weekly columns for VTDigger.org, Margolis will be working on special projects for Vermont Public Television this spring.
Margolis was the national political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. Before he was hired by the Tribune in 1973, he was the Albany bureau chief for Newsday, and a reporter for the Bergen Record in Hackensack, N.J., the Miami Herald, and the Concord (N.H.) Monitor.
He has written articles for the New York Times Magazine, American Prospect, The New Republic, Mother Jones, High Country News, and Seven Days.
In addition, Margolis has written three books: “The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964,” published by William Morrow in 1999 (paperback published by HarperCollins Perennial in 2000); “How To Fool Fish With Feathers: An Incompleat Guide to Fly Fishing,” illustrated by Jeff MacNelly (Simon and Schuster, 1991); and “The Quotable Bob Dole–Witty, Wise and Otherwise, “(Avon Books, 1995). He also wrote two chapters of “Howard Dean: A Citizen’s Guide to the Man Who Would be President “(Steerforth, 2003).
He lives in Barton.