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Mike Lawrence
City Editor
Mike Lawrence is the city editor for the Pilot & Today. He began working at the paper on Oct. 31, 2005, as a reporter. (His first story in Steamboat was about Halloween trick-or-treating on Lincoln Avenue.)
Mike has a masters degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a bachelor of arts in philosophy from St. Mary's College of Maryland. He has worked as a reporting intern at the Rocky Mountain News, Boulder Daily Camera, Longmont Times-Call, Gunnison Country Times and the Colorado Statesman, a weekly political newspaper based in Denver.
Mike's hometown is Dover, N.H. He enjoys hiking, reading, soccer, spending time with friends, listening to music, cheering for the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox and the three-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots.
Recent stories:
- Community grieves, hopes as search for Rebecca Green is scaled back
June 16, 2009 - Search for Rebecca Green scaled back until water levels drop
June 15, 2009 - Search area narrowed
June 15, 2009 - Rescue crews leaving Fish Creek Falls for the day
June 14, 2009 - YVMC opens expanded Family Birth Place with extra comforts
May 16, 2009 - Pedestrian flown to Denver after being hit by pickup
May 6, 2009 - CMC holds lively commencement
May 2, 2009 - Intrawest realigns staff
April 25, 2009 - Intrawest realigns staff
April 24, 2009 - Tournament to benefit Andy Caress
April 17, 2009 - See full list of stories by Mike Lawrence...
Recent photos:
Soda Creek Elementary School third-graders donated $175 to LIFT-UP of Routt County on Friday. The students earned the money by creating a craft business as part of a unit on economics. The students toured local businesses and sold crafts. LIFT-UP Executive Director David Freseman said he plans to use the money to help needy residents pay utility bills. “We’re running low on utility assistance funds,” he said.
The line of people walking to Invesco Field on Thursday, to see Barack Obama accept the Democratic nomination for president, stretched far along Colfax Avenue, where protestors thronged closer to the stadium.
Protestors of numerous causes make their voices heard Thursday afternoon outside Invesco Field in Denver, where crowds thronged like ants around an anthole in anticipation of Barack Obama's acceptance of the Democratic nomination for president.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama laid out an aggressive policy plan Thursday night at Invesco Field, telling an estimated 84,000 that if elected, he will "cut taxes for 95 percent of working families," end U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East in 10 years, and invest $150 billion in alternative energy over the next decade. "We cannot meet 21st-century challenges with 20th-century beauracracy," he said.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told the veterans caucus Thursday at the Democratic National Convention that Republicans have “forgotten what (veterans) need when they come home.”
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