Sasha is one of the most creative and accomplished journalists of his generation, with a body of work built on his omnivorous intellectual curiosity and supreme grasp of politics as a human endeavor.

I have been in journalism since before I graduated high school. The editor and publisher of the Bertie Ledger-Advance when I was in high school — the late Laura Harrell — held that position for five ...

For five years, he honed the paper’s focus on hard news and enterprising journalism, distancing it from its reputation for fluffy, bite-sized stories. By Richard Sandomir David Mazzarella, who as the ...