A Casey Medal
Columnist Lorraine Ahearn won honorable mention for a Casey Medal for meritorious journalism given by the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families. Essentially, her award is third place in this prestigious national contest. The awards honor coverage of disadvantaged children and families. More than 700 journalists entered contest in nine different categories. The judges said:
Ahern (sic) uses old-fashioned shoe leather to immerse herself in her community and writes eloquently about public policies that sometimes worsen situations for already-disadvantaged individuals.
Her editor, Betsi Robinson, is also recognized in the award, but, typically, she brushes aside her role and promises to smack me on the head if I put her in this post.
Here is one of the submitted columns.
Old hat for Lorraine; she won the thing in 2002.