Ron Marsico, 46, has covered homeland security issues, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan for The Star-Ledger since January, 2002. He previously covered politics as a member of the newspaper's Statehouse bureau in Trenton. He is a 1983 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
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James Palmer, The Star-Ledger
James Palmer is a freelance journalist working with editors at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., to contribute to Newhouse News Service. In the past four years, Palmer has reported from Afghanistan, Kashmir, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda and Congo. He headed to Iraq late in the summer of 2005.
Ron Marsico, 46, has covered homeland security issues, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan for The Star-Ledger since January, 2002. He previously covered politics as a member of the newspaper's Statehouse bureau in Trenton. He is a 1983 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
James Palmer is a freelance journalist working with editors at The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., to contribute to Newhouse News Service. In the past four years, Palmer has reported from Afghanistan, Kashmir, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda and Congo. He headed to Iraq late in the summer of 2005.