Paul Szydelko
Lead Copy Editor
Contact: 868-4548 • Email
A Southern Nevada resident since he graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism in 1986, Szydelko has been the lead copy editor at Vegas Seven since its inception. The former sports reporter, news reporter and managing editor of the Henderson Home News worked on the copy desk of the Las Vegas Sun when it was an afternoon daily and sampled the Strip’s many tourist attractions as associate editor and senior editor of Las Vegas Magazine. The San Diego native lives in Henderson with his wife and two daughters.
Recent Articles
Seven Questions for Joe Heck
The doctor/congressman on the similarities between practicing medicine and politics, the troubles with Obamacare and the unhealthy side effects of campaigning
February 21st, 2013
Born in Jamaica, New York, Joe Heck completed his undergraduate studies at Penn State University and received a doctorate in osteopathy in 1988 at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Heck moved to Nevada in 1992 and completed his residency in emergency medicine. A colonel in the U.S. Army, the 51-year-old has been called to active duty three times, including a deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Iris by Cirque du Soleil
June 28th, 2012
As Cirque du Soleil has defined the modern circus, Hollywood has defined moviemaking. So it’s difficult to imagine a more fitting venue for Cirque’s homage to cinema than the Dolby Theatre (formerly the Kodak Theatre) in Hollywood, which has hosted the Academy Awards since 2001.
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Splashdown Comes in 2013
May 10th, 2012
From floating lazily on a raft to hurtling down steep slides to a splash landing, the magic of Wet ’n Wild—once the nation’s seventh most popular water park—shaped the summer memories of a Las Vegas generation. Then the water was drained in 2004 to make room for an apparently invisible megaresort, and rec centers have had to suffice ever since. By 2013, though, the good times could be back in two new parks.
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Dr. Steve Lampinen
Family Medicine
February 23rd, 2012
A good doctor always … listens to his patients. Patients tell their story. They know what’s going on with them. If you listen to what they have to say and ask the right questions, 98 percent of the time you will have the answer in front of you. It’s a lost art.
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Jeff Gordon
The Caring Man
January 26th, 2012
Thrusting his fist into the breeze while riding his Harley-Davidson, Jeff Gordon has just rounded a hazardous turn on a narrow road in the mountains of Utah. Two years earlier, he collided here with a truck pulling a trailer full of firewood. The accident nearly took his lower left leg—and his life. Now he is elated to have conquered the turn, but he knows life sometimes has even more treacherous challenges—ones that may never be beaten, only endured.
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Amy Tarkanian
Wife of the Party
January 26th, 2012
For more than seven tumultuous months as chair of the Nevada Republican Party, Amy Tarkanian not only survived but appeared to flourish. In the playground of competing interests, strong-willed up-and-comers, disengaged onlookers and broken infrastructure, she fought bullies over the scheduling of the presidential caucus and acted as the fulcrum in balancing Tea Party demands and the need for electable candidates.
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Alyse Williams, 16
Political and social activist
November 17th, 2011
When a presidential candidate visits your home to meet his precinct captains, it might make a vague impression on an ordinary 12-year-old girl. When it is Barack Obama and the girl is energetic, ambitious and community-minded, a passion for public service is ignited. “I felt like I was the only person in the room, although the house was filled with so many people it was nearly impossible to move,” says Alyse, who was inspired that July day in 2007 to help found Nevadans 4 Obama, whose 300 members helped raise more than $178,000 through house parties and online efforts.
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People
Best School Principal
July 28th, 2011
Halle Hewetson Elementary School was languishing as one of Nevada’s lowest performers in 2005. Fewer than 25 percent of the students performed adequately in math, and only 15 percent performed adequately in English and language arts. That autumn, Lucille Keaton took over as principal. Today those numbers stand at 90 and 79 percent, respectively.
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