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By BRETT MARCY [email protected]
Thursday, March 17, 2005     Page: 5A

WILKES-BARRE – U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, has hired a longtime
newspaper reporter to become his newest district director, sources say.
   
Fred Ney, a former county government and political reporter for the
Citizens’ Voice, has been tapped to head up Kanjorski’s district office in
Wilkes-Barre.
    Kanjorski’s press secretary did not return repeated requests for comment
this week, but an aide in the congressman’s Wilkes-Barre office confirmed Ney
has been hired.
   
Paul Maher, Kanjorski’s aide, said Ney is slated to begin his new job in
the congressman’s district office on March 28.
   
State Rep. John Yudichak, D-Nanticoke, also said the congressman hired Ney
to be his district director.
   
He said Kanjorski’s former district director, Kristopher Jones, recently
left the post.
   
Until about a year ago, Ney had covered Luzerne County government for the
Citizens’ Voice full-time since 2000.
   
He also had worked as a reporter for the Sunday Independent, a Wilkes-Barre
paper that ceased publication in 1993.
   
He is not the first county reporter for the Citizens’ Voice to leave the
post for a government job.
   
Ney’s predecessor on the county beat, Carol Crane, left the paper to take a
job with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
   
She left PennDOT and now works as the spokeswoman for Luzerne County
District Attorney David Lupas.