Resides in: Sunrise, Fla. Position: Freelance court reporter Member since: 1987 Graduated from: Southern Business College Theory: StenEd Favorite gadget: I can’t live without my…
If you’re considering taking NCRA’s Realtime Systems Administrator workshop, you might have some basic questions about the certificate program. As a committee, we’ve addressed some…
By Gayle Hays Driving my car the other day here in Seattle, it occurred to me that I had graduated from Kenosha Technical Institute…
BEFORE YOU ASK… Q. Where did he have the surgery? A. The hospital on 13 Mile. What do you call it? You know how…
NCRA’s switch to online testing for the skills portion of the RPR, RMR, CRR, and CBC/CCP/CRC comes with some differences and some similarities. Here’s an…
High security, audio glitches, and sometimes difficult accents didn’t hinder the NCRA members who had the opportunity to caption the events held during Pope Francis’…
Phipps Reporting, Inc., a court reporting firm in West Palm Beach, Fla., has been ranked by Inc. magazine as number 1751 in its 34th annual…
Franklin Delano Cross of Dallas, Texas, passed away September 19 at the age of 82. He was born January 31, 1933, to Ross Cross and…
Clarence J. Getty, uncle and mentor of federal official court reporter Krista Flynn Burgeson, passed away September 20, 2015. Getty was a freelance court reporter…
NCRA member Kathy Zebert, RPR, CCR, has a debut romance/murder mystery novel entitled Incredulity. The book is currently available for preorder on Amazon.com in both…
Members of the Illinois Court Reporters Association joined state officials and military veterans during a Veterans History Project event hosted by Jesse White, the state’s…
The Vicksburg Post, Vicksburg, Miss., reported on Sept. 24 that a new recommendation by the state governing the first pay increase given to court reporters…
On Sept. 21, Trinidadexpress.com reported that there is a chronic shortage of court reporters at the Industrial Court in Port of Spain, which has resulted…
NCRA launched the online continuing education system on June 1 as a way for our members to more easily submit their continuing education credits. For…
By Christine Phipps iRecord is one of my favorite apps. I use it to record audio in short proceedings. In the past few months, I have…
By Christine Phipps SoundSoap 4 is a sound-scrubbing program recommended to me by a local techie videographer friend. It’s a program that can be useful to…
In a press release issued Sept. 15, Aptus Court Reporting, San Diego, Calif., announced the addition of Sandy Waite to its team as chief operation…
By Christine Phipps Several iOS apps were infected with XcodeGhost, a malware program that gives hackers access to some of your smartphone data, including your…
In honor of National Punctuation Day, which is celebrated every year on Sept. 24, NCRA asked members of the Proofreading Advisory Council for their best…