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Richard Belcher's Biography

Posted: 4:09 pm EDT April 10, 2009Updated: 8:54 am EDT April 29, 2009

ATLANTA -- Richard Belcher is a native of Atlanta who has been a reporter here since 1971.

His primary interest is stories about how government works (or doesn’t work) and how it spends the taxpayers’ money.

His email address is richard.belcher@wsbtv.com.

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