Monthly Journalism Award
The Washinzton Monthly Journalism Award WALTER UPDEGRAVE “Stacking the Deck” Money Updegrave reveals the intimate connections between state legislators and the insurance industry: state...
...length to show how environmenta lclean-up funds and a massive volunteer effort turned much of the river around...
...if Goldsmith wins, he will appoint the pharmacy board that oversees BDI...
...largest in-state political contributor...
...Two reporters travel the river...
...KEVIN CORCORAN “Pills Fuel Political Donation” The Times ofNorthwest Indiana/MSH-TV This report on the links between drug entrepreneur Richard Deer and Indiana's Republican gubernatorial candidate Stephen Goldsmith reminds us why money and politics remain an ugly coupling...
...The Washinzton Monthly Journalism Award WALTER UPDEGRAVE “Stacking the Deck” Money Updegrave reveals the intimate connections between state legislators and the insurance industry: state insurance commissioners who are ex-presidents of insurance companies or ex-lobbyists for the industry...
...insurance committee members who are also lawyers infirms thatprojitffom the insurance business...
...TOM JOHNSON &JUDY PEET “The Forgotten River” The Star Ledger From New Jersey's interior comes an environmental success story...
...The Passaic River was once the second-most polluted river in the n a t i o n i t s j s h inedible, its water unswimmable...
...Teenagers get high offMini-Thin, which is why regulators are considering making it available only by prescription...
...and lawmakers who return to high-paying industry jobs after they end their Yublic service...
...Deer's company, BD1, markets the controversial over-the-counter asthma drug Mini-Thin...
...Deer happens to be Goldsmith...
Vol. 28 • November 1996 • No. 11
