Progress reporter profiles: Scott Moyers

I haven't seen it all.

I've heard other people say they have, but not me.

I have seen a lot, though. My name is Scott Moyers and I've been a newspaper reporter for the better part of 15 years. I've worked several beats in several Missouri communities and now cover city government and politics for the Southeast Missourian.

Those experiences have put me ringside at several fascinating events: Murder scenes and jail escapes, heated political debates, rambunctious public forums and once a female-to-male transsexual lobbying for a public board to defend against bias.

I've watched a community heroically band together to save their homes from an unforgiving and overflowing river. I sat in a courthouse and listened to a 7-year-old boy testify that he watched his father get killed. I listened to a war widow tearfully talk about the tragic task of raising her son alone.

But, in this business, the stories just keep coming. Lately it's been the two sides of a smoking ban, the promise -- or worry -- of a multimillion-dollar casino or a mother's ultimately uplifting story of losing one child and her hopes for another.

There's always something new in this business. Another conflict. Another inspiration. Another person raging at windmills.

In other words, another story.

I haven't seen it all.

And I certainly haven't written about it all.

But I'm still writing.