Dan McCue
Dan McCue is the Editor of The Well News. In nearly three decades in journalism, he has been the managing editor for a chain of 18 weekly newspapers, the Southeast regional editor for the Courthouse News Service, and was county government and environmental reporter at the Stuart News in Stuart, Florida.
Dan began his career in media as an editorial staff assistant at The New Yorker magazine. Since then, and in addition to the work mentioned above, his work has been published in a number of other publications including Renewable Energy Magazine, the Charleston Regional Business Journal, Newsday, the Riverdale Press, Hartford Courant, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Miami Herald, World Trade Magazine, The Music Paper, Spin and Guitar for the Practicing Musician.
Over the course of Dan’s career, he’s written about federal, state and local government, economic development, international trade, NASA and the aerospace industry, the environment and climate change, particularly the health and well-being of Florida’s Everglades and estuary system, energy, the entertainment industry, and even thoroughbred horse racing.
He also hosted his own public affairs cable television program, “Insight Nassau,” was a regular panelist on News 12 Long Island’s “Reporter’s Roundtable” program and made frequent guest appearances on WGBB radio on Long Island, speaking on government, politics and business.
In June 2022, he was recognized by the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists as a finalist in the beat reporting category of its Dateline Awards for journalism excellence for his coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dan brought home two 2023 Dateline Awards for Online Breaking News and Feature Reporting from the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2024, Dan was the winner of the 2024 Dateline Award for Online Business reporting.
Dan is a member of the Poynter alumni network, his having completed a master class in covering climate change science and policy in a polarized world.
Dan can be reached at [email protected] and @DanMcCue
Recent Work
The $4.7 trillion federal budget for 2020 proposed by President Donald Trump on Monday, misses the mark on achieving meaningful... Read More
The $4.7 trillion federal budget for 2020 proposed by President Donald Trump on Monday, misses the mark on achieving meaningful deficit reduction while relying on accounting "sleight-of-hand" to bring future spending into promised balance in 15 years, according to a prominent fiscal watchdog group. “Today’s proposal... Read More
The Democratic National Committee chose Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday to host its presidential nominating convention in 2020, meaning the party will... Read More
The Democratic National Committee chose Milwaukee, Wisconsin Monday to host its presidential nominating convention in 2020, meaning the party will select its nominee in the heart of the region that sent Donald Trump to the White House two-and-a-half years ago. Though the rust belt location is... Read More
The House passed along party lines a sweeping ethics and election overhaul bill Friday morning, setting up a showdown with... Read More
The House passed along party lines a sweeping ethics and election overhaul bill Friday morning, setting up a showdown with Senate Republicans that will likely loom large in the 2020 elections. “It’s about money in politics and how that destroys the confidence people have in the... Read More
US employers added just 20,000 jobs in February, a sharp pullback after a quarter of solid gains averaging 186,000 new... Read More
US employers added just 20,000 jobs in February, a sharp pullback after a quarter of solid gains averaging 186,000 new jobs a month, the Labor Department reported Friday. The scarcity of new jobs added to the economy is the smallest monthly gain in nearly 18 months,... Read More
The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was assailed by Democrats on the House Financial Service Committee on... Read More
The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was assailed by Democrats on the House Financial Service Committee on Thursday who contend an industry-friendly shift by the Trump administration has undermined the agency's mission. When the bureau opened in 2011 it was seen as the... Read More
Senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., introduced a bill this week to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers adopt... Read More
Senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., introduced a bill this week to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers adopt technology to improve their business processes, increase their energy efficiency and curb the wasteful use of resources. The bill, titled the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Act, stems... Read More
The net worth of America's households fell by a record $3.8 trillion at the end of 2018, pulled down by... Read More
The net worth of America's households fell by a record $3.8 trillion at the end of 2018, pulled down by sharp declines on Wall Street that briefly pushed the market into bear territory, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. The bracing news, part of the Federal Reserve's... Read More
There's no time like the present to solidify the gains the Democrats made in the House during the 2018 midterm... Read More
There's no time like the present to solidify the gains the Democrats made in the House during the 2018 midterm elections and target vulnerable Republican seats in 2020. That's the message of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which on Thursday announced it is rolling out a... Read More
Nevada is asking the Ninth Circuit to block the Trump administration from making further shipments of weapons-grade plutonium into the... Read More
Nevada is asking the Ninth Circuit to block the Trump administration from making further shipments of weapons-grade plutonium into the state, contending the White House is intent to turn it into "the nation's radioactive dump." In a filing in the San Francisco-based appeals court on Monday,... Read More
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday slammed the door on undocumented immigrants accessing taxpayer-funded programs,... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday slammed the door on undocumented immigrants accessing taxpayer-funded programs, saying those benefits were never intended to subsidize those in the U.S. illegally. Specifically, the department rescinded a 1998 interpretation... Read More
WASHINGTON — Members of the New Democrat Coalition traveled to Garner, North Carolina, on Friday to speak with voters about... Read More
WASHINGTON — Members of the New Democrat Coalition traveled to Garner, North Carolina, on Friday to speak with voters about why they believe the sweeping domestic policy package their Republican colleagues passed last week will stymie the growth of a... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy on Friday said it is providing ExxonMobil with up to 1 million barrels of... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy on Friday said it is providing ExxonMobil with up to 1 million barrels of crude oil from the federal government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to offset a supply disruption on the Gulf Coast. The oil... Read More
WASHINGTON — Brazil’s president is pledging that he will not back down from a trade war with the United States... Read More
WASHINGTON — Brazil’s president is pledging that he will not back down from a trade war with the United States as the deadline approaches to reach a deal on tariffs. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this week he... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior has proposed updating federal oil and gas regulations to make it easier for... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior has proposed updating federal oil and gas regulations to make it easier for operators to combine production from multiple leases. According to the agency, this approach would allow oil and gas to be... Read More
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to declare a... Read More
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to declare a public health emergency for measles after confirmed cases of the virus reached their highest number in more than three decades.... Read More
