Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs has been a reporter, filmmaker, and political columnist for 40 years. His journalism career started on The Milwaukee Sentinel and continued on The Chicago Sun-Times until he left in 1976 on a leave of absence to pursue video journalism. His video documentaries have been broadcast on PBS and A & E Television and include True Life Video Stories, Royko at The Goat, Those Grede Girls, and Saudi Arabia: A Complicated Ally, all available on Amazon. Com. He is the author of "Never Leave Your Block" and "Famous Ski Hills in Wisconsin" - a finalist for the 2014 Book of the Year by The Chicago Writers Association - and three books on the 1996, 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns written under the pseudonym Stump Connolly, chief political correspondent of The Week Behind.