Mike Argento

Mike Argento (b. Aug. 17, 1958) is a columnist and reporter from York, Pennsylvania. He has been the columnist since 1989 as a night cops reporter.[1] In the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial in 2004 and 2005, Argento's columns on the trial were cited by most media coverage of Kitzmiller v. Dover, including every book about the case. He is a past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Awards and honors

He won best columnist (under 100k) award in 1998, the same year he won first place in the American Association of Sunday and Features Writers national features writing contest. In 1989, he was a featured writer.[1]

Personal

Argento obtained his degree from Penn State with a degree in humanities. Upon graduating, he began working at a weekly newspaper, quit, then worked for another similar weekly newspaper.[1]

Aside from writing, Argento spends his free time playing the guitar. He is a member of a band called JCFisher who play eclectic indie music. The band does a country version of the song "I Wanna Be Sedated".[2]

Argento is married to his wife Cine Martinez-Argento and together the two live in York County, Pennsylvania. They have two dogs. One is a greyhound, named Lester, and the other is a mixed terrier named Shmuley. They have a number of cats named Crazy Ass and Crazy Ass Jr. Jr and also a large lizard.[2]

Novels
  • "Don't Be Cruel"[2]
gollark: >contacts
gollark: Sure? I would move it to beside <#733816666089062511> but mobile.
gollark: Heavpoot is to be declared SCP-3125-A with immediate effect.
gollark: My tape download program now supports downloading big files without splitting them, via range requests, assuming they're served from a server which supports it: https://pastebin.com/LW9RFpmY (do `web2tape https://url.whatever range`)
gollark: Here is a similar thing for JSON. Note that it delegates out to an external JSON library for string escaping.```luafunction safe_json_serialize(x, prev) local t = type(x) if t == "number" then if x ~= x or x <= -math.huge or x >= math.huge then return tostring(x) end return string.format("%.14g", x) elseif t == "string" then return json.encode(x) elseif t == "table" then prev = prev or {} local as_array = true local max = 0 for k in pairs(x) do if type(k) ~= "number" then as_array = false break end if k > max then max = k end end if as_array then for i = 1, max do if x[i] == nil then as_array = false break end end end if as_array then local res = {} for i, v in ipairs(x) do table.insert(res, safe_json_serialize(v)) end return "["..table.concat(res, ",").."]" else local res = {} for k, v in pairs(x) do table.insert(res, json.encode(tostring(k)) .. ":" .. safe_json_serialize(v)) end return "{"..table.concat(res, ",").."}" end elseif t == "boolean" then return tostring(x) elseif x == nil then return "null" else return json.encode(tostring(x)) endend```

References
  1. "Prez Column - Argento | National Society of Newspaper Columnists". Columnists. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  2. "All About Mike". Mike Argento. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
Mike Argento
Born
Michael Argento

August 17, 1958
York, Pennsylvania
EducationSuburban Area HS York PA; Penn State BA Hum.
OccupationColumnist, reporter
Notable credit(s)
Former president, National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Award-winning columnist.
Spouse(s)Cine Martinez-Argento
ChildrenTony Argento
FamilyDominick Argento U.S. composer, uncle.
Websitehttp://www.yorkblog.com/mikeargento/


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