Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
-Plato
Dave Pidgeon has since late 2005 been the political correspondent for the Intelligencer Journal, providing news and analysis from the local campaign trails to the state Capitol.
His coverage has stretched from the bareknuckle mayoral contest in Lancaster city between Charlie Smithgall and Rick Gray to the frontseat of the 2008 presidential campaigns when Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain vied for Pennsylvania.
Pidgeon’s political coverage can be read daily in the Intelligencer Journal print edition and online at www.lancasteronline.com. His ”Bird’s-Eye View” column provides news and analysis every Monday mornings. He has provided insight and analysis for PCN’s “Journalist Roundtable” and satellite radio’s “P.O.T.U.S. ‘08.”
Pidgeon was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1979 and remains a diehard Reds baseball fan. His family moved to southern Lancaster County when he was a young kid, raising him and brother and sister across from Muddy Run Park near Holtwood. Pidgeon graduated from Penn Manor High School in 1997, and four years later, he earned a bachelor’s degree in English-Professional Writing from Elizabethtown College, Pa.
Pidgeon has in addition to writing about politics for the Intelligencer Journal is a freelance magazine writer. He’s a fan of wilderness travel, Jimmy Buffett, college football, all things Apple and iPod, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Quips, local coffeeshops with WiFi, sushi, Keen footwear and his Garmin GPS.
