Dan Chapman has been a reporter for 25 years and covered just about everything: cops to Capitol Hill, cotton farming to Philippine communists. He started at Congressional Quarterly, moved south to the Winston-Salem Journal, Charlotte Observer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In Atlanta since 2000, Chapman covered the 9/11 aftermath in New York before spending three months in the Middle East and Pakistan. For the last few years he has written about the lousy economy and its impact on real people. He lives in Candler Park with wife Bita, a photographer, and their two young sons.