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Email: timothy.follos&#64;patch.com<br>Hometown: Wilmington, N.Y.

A native of the Adirondack Mountains in far northern New York, Tim is a third-generation writer who published some of his first pieces as a kid in the Blue Bomber Times.

In 2002 Tim moved to Washington, D.C. to attend college and in 2003 he began working for Express, a D.C. daily newspaper. Most of Tim&#39;s work between 2003 and 2010 appeared in Express or on its affiliated websites.

Tim&#39;s work has also appeared in the Onion, the Georgetown Voice and in other print and online sources.

Tim is the former Sports Editor of the Lake Placid News and of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. He was an editorial aide at Express from 2005-2007.

Tim is currently working on two books. The first, &#34;Obey Your Author: The Biography of Ron Bercume,&#34; is a stranger-than-fiction true story about a happily married, reasonably well-adjusted graphic designer facing onerous tax payments.

The second book is a long-anticipated (by him) tome tentatively titled &#34;The Unfiltered Follos&#34; — a collection of his interviews with the likes of Pete Seeger, Bill Cosby, Lois Lowry, Ice Cube, Ani DiFranco, Billy Bragg, Mark Arm, Jarobi White, Tom Morello, Art Spiegelman, Michael Barone, Jim Lehrer, Jane Mayer, Richard Russo, Arto Monaco and Stevie Capozio.

Among his greatest professional accomplishments is his 2007 interview with Bob Novak. 

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I studied political philosophy and political science in college and I can certainly see the merits of both the liberal and the conservative political philosophical traditions.

I&#39;ve worked for both the government and for government contractors and these experiences made me exceedingly distrustful of government spending.

I still like ol&#39; Barrack &#34;Rorschach&#34; Obama. I see him as a pragmatic moderate.<br><br>Ultimately, I&#39;d like to be known as a Roy Holzer or Frances Walton Republican. 

<b>Religion:<br></b>Christian <br><b><br>Local Hot-Button Issues</b><br>I am not inclined to look with great joy upon the closure of community schools or upon the abridgment of private property by the state, but am open and fair-minded enough to report on such issues in an equitable manner. Beyond those evergreen topics, I don&#39;t necessarily know the hot-button local issues at this point; I&#39;ve only been on the beat for two months.

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