He has lived in many parts of the USA, including Wisconsin, Florida, Washington, D.C., and was an active community member of Danville, California for 11 years.

Curtis was also a professional musician in the late 1970s and early 1980, touring the Midwest "bar band" circuit with "The Strays", "Mike and the Mysteries", and "Fat Tuesday".

Curtis began his broadcasting career in Florida, working at WRUF-AM/FM Radio and WUFT-TV5 (PBS) in Gainesville and WCJB-TV 20 (ABC) in Ocala.

His work appeared on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, A Current Affair and in Time-Life Books.

He served as a Legislative Aide and Congressional Fellow through the American Political Science Association, in the offices of Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Herb Kohl, (D-WI), 1992-93.

Curtis is perhaps best known for the 15 years he spent with KTVU-TV2, the former Cox Media Group station and FOX affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Correspondent for Cox-owned stations from 1993 to 1999, Morning News co-anchor from 1999 to 2007 and a freelance reporter and political analyst through the balance of the 2008 campaign as he traveled from Iowa and New Hampshire in January, through the entire primary season ending in South Dakota and Montana in June.

In January 2010, Curtis joined WLNE-TV ABC6 in Providence, Rhode Island as the weekend evening news anchor and Chief Political Reporter.

He is now a National Contributing Writer on politics for Patch.com Patch - Everything Local: Breaking News, Events, Discussions In January 2009, Curtis published his first book; a first-person account of the historic 2008 Presidential campaign.