Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award JUNE 197 JOHN HECHINGER AND JOHN REINAN Gambling Grabs S.C. The (Charlotte Observer With more than 24,000 video poker machines...
...Hecbinger and Reinan investigate how a hangul of video poker machine owners .bas injuenced state legislation, sidestepped state rtiles on gambling payouts, evaded taxes, and become a billion-dollar industry...
...Powell follows the trailof mismanaged funds-including an $89 million federal grant for AIDS and tuberculosis patients that went unspent even as the city...
...The real problem is gross mismanagement at all levels of the government...
...We are particularly interested in reporting that explains the successes and failures of government agencies at all levels and of other institutions such as the media, corporations, unions, and foundations that contribute to the existence or solution of the article or broadcast text) to The Washington Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Journal In a comprehensive three-part series, Mercer exposes eforts by So& Dakota’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources to conspire with area gold m king interests to lower water quality standards on troutfishing streams in the state...
...NW, Washington, DC 20009...
...The (Charlotte Observer With more than 24,000 video poker machines lining the walls of almost every bar, gas station, and gambling hall in the rtate, South Carolina has become the land of unregtrlated gambling...
...Revealing the faulty data underlying DENR’s claim, Mercer’s reporting heIped prevent special interests from poisoning the area's streams...
...foreign policy...
...Nominations for stories run in August are due September 1...
...And by comparing D. C. to other major cities, Powell shows that the capital is not impoverished for lack of money...
...From reinstating the drap to involving professional and middle class Americans in all aspects of public life-but especially the military-Ricks recommends a series of measures Americans should take to ensure we have a democratic military that supports, rather than undercuts, effective US...
...THE MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD is presented each month to one or more newspaper, magazine, radio, or television stories (or series of stories) that demonstrate a commitment to the public interest...
...Government Series The Washington Post In this long-overdue report on the sad state of Fnances in its hometown, The Washington Post shows how poor management and Mayor Marion Barry’s penchant for handing out jobs and contracts to establish a power base have undermined services and cost the District hundreds of millions of dollars each year...
...Claiming it posed no serious threat to aquatic wildlfe, :itate regulators and mining oflcials argued for increasing allowances of heavy metals in the streams, an act the U. S. Fish and Wildlfe Service said would certainly harm key aquatic species...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award JUNE 197 JOHN HECHINGER AND JOHN REINAN Gambling Grabs S.C...
...BOB MERCER Qyality of Streams Rapid City (S.D...
...tuberculosis cases increased by 36percent, as well as details about the city’s excessive and ineffective spending on services and employees (the highest per capita in the country...
...MICHAEL POWELL D.C...
...Black Hills...
...JULY 1997 THOMAS E. RICKS The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society Atlantic Monthly Enumerating the changes that have takenplace in the military and society at large in the past few decades, Rich ident;fis a troubling gulf between soldiers and civilians that has resulted in an increasingly alienated, politically conservative, and misunderstood military...
Vol. 29 • September 1997 • No. 9
