Will Van Sant joined the staff of the St. Petersburg Times in September 2002, after working in the South Jersey bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer for two years. He covers Pinellas County government for the Times. Van Sant graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., in 1998, and from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. Before attending graduate school, he did internships at the National Journal and the Washington Monthly.

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E-mail: vansant@sptimes.com