Tom served as a local editor for the Chronicles, the Call's weekly community newspaper, from 2003-05. Tom's journalistic experience runs the gamut from covering local news and sports for several New Jersey newspapers to financial market news at major New York-based newswires. He's also covered the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes for a Kentucky-based industry publication. Tom lives in west Allentown with his wife Mary and two felines, Hope and Emily.