20 entries received in "50,000+" circulation bracket
Twenty entries have been received in the largest circulation bracket (50,000+) for this year's Carmage Walls Commentary Prize.
First- and second-place honors will be awarded. Judges also may designate several entries for honorable mention.
Winning entries will be announced Oct. 6-8 at the SNPA News Industry Summit in Charlottesville, Va.
SNPA members are invited to comment at the end of this article on the entries. Which entries do you feel are the strongest ... and why?
Click on the links below to view the entry materials:
Entry #1: Ned Barnett — The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
- entry form
- editorial – Frustration grows as DHHS stumbles
- editorial – Cost of obstinance on Obamacare
- editorial – JFK's call to action is needed now
- editorial – Barnett: A Moral March opponent makes his case
- editorial – The ache of lost dental care in NC
Entry #2: Robin Beres — Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.
- entry form
- editorial – Build a better Republican party
- editorial – Beres (cont.)
- editorial – Marriage is poverty's fiercest foe
- editorial – Marriage (cont.)
- editorial – We're lost without space
- editorial – Space (cont.)
- editorial – Free markets are surest cure for poverty
- editorial – Beres (cont.)
- editorial – 'Living the dream'
- editorial – Dream (cont.)
Entry #3: Warren Bolton — The State, Columbia, S.C.
- entry form
- editorial – Black men endure a lifetime of suspicion
- editorial – Protests mean nothing if we don't save our boys
- editorial – High crime rate no reflection on most black men
- editorial – Consider this profile of black men
- editorial – More police alone not the answer to gangs
- editorial – Teaching youths fundamentals for everyday life
Entry #4: Roger Chesley — The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
- entry form
- editorial – Restoring some felons' rights will benefit all of us
- editorial – A voting law that makes it harder to vote is plain stupid
- editorial – Cleanup of Va. voter database is necessary, not a GOP plot
- editorial – Here's hoping state will elect to implement voting reforms
Entry #5: Roger Chesley — The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
- entry form
- editorial – Woman's death shows hurdles facing homeless, and helpers, too
- editorial – We're winning a few battles in the war on homelessness
- editorial – For one man, home is where the heart of a new start is
Entry #6: Brian Colligan and Digby Solomon — Daily Press, Newport News, Va.
- entry form
- editorial – Physician, heal thyself
- editorial – You have a role, too
- editorial – Address cost pitfalls
- editorial – Virginia's way forward
- editorial – Resolve the impasse
- editorial – Time to make a deal
Entry #7: Todd Culbertson — Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.
- entry form
- editorial – Remembrance
- editorial – In the beginning
Entry #8: Mike Clark, Roger Brown, Wayne Ezell and Ron Littlepage — The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla.
- entry form and editorials (there are links on the entry form to the editorials)
Entry #9: Paul Greenberg — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, Ark.
- entry form
- editorial – Welcome to no place
Entry #10: Mike Hashimoto — The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
- entry form and five blog posts (links to the blogs posts are at the end of the entry form)
- editorial – Watkins bids for boss
Entry #11: James A. Haught — The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, W.Va.
- entry form
- editorial – Clock is ticking
Entry #12: A. Barton Hinkle — Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.
- entry form
- five editorials
- Repeal the marriage amendment
- A conservative case for gay marriage
- Loving v. Virginia all over again
- Loving's legacy lives on in recent rulings
- A constitutional case for gay marriage
Entry #13: Rodger Jones — The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
- entry form
- editorial – Grim milestone
- editorial – Capital improvements
- editorial – Geography as destiny
- editorial – Dubious distinction
- editorial – Escaping the executioner
- editorial – Multitude of failures
Entry #14: Elsa McDowell — The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
- entry form
- editorial – Sustain Angel Oak's victory
- editorial – Angel Oak lovers, step up
- editorial – Don't crowd the Angel Oak
- editorial – Complete Angel Oak park
- editorial – Angel Oak is sitting pretty
- editorial – Angel Oak success
Entry #15: John Railey — Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem, N.C.
- entry form
- editorial – Make it happen, Mr. Speaker
- editorial – Tillis, McCrory on the verge of achieving it
- editorial – Victims have been led on too long
- editorial – Long, hard fight is almost won
- editorial – A landmark victory, at last
- editorial – Betrayals, support, victory in the compensation fight
Entry #16: Tod Robberson — The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
- entry form
- editorial – Preventing the next disaster (West blast should spur Dewhurst, Straus to action)
- editorial – Preventing the next disaster (In West aftermath, feds show shortcomings)
- editorial – Toying with disaster
- editorial – Marshaling the authority
- editorial – They stood for West (continued in next link)
- editorial – They answered call for West (continued in next link)
- Two editorials
- Time to rebuild, regroup (a continuation of above editorial)
- Reluctant victims slow to seek help
- editorial – Heeding West's lessons
Entry #17: Charles Rowe — The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
- entry form
- editorial – Economic case for I-26 trees
- editorial – COG needs forum on I-26 trees
- editorial – Clear-cut interstates no bargain
- editorial – Reject I-26 tree removal
- editorial – Terminate I-26 clear-cut plan
- editorial – Saving the scenic interstate
Entry #18: Charles Rowe — The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
- entry form
- editorial – Demand ethical government
- editorial – Real-life case for ethics reform
- editorial – Make ethics scofflaws pay
- editorial – Deal with ethics reform now
- editorial – Needed: Genuine ethics reform
- editorial – Dubious shift in Harrell case
Entry #19: Pam Sohn — Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chattanooga, Tenn.
- entry form
- six editorials
- Don't horse around, Governor
- Breeders inch toward cleaning up soring menace
- A new day in Walking Horse history
- Walking Horse poll pans use of pads
- New horse abuse charged, but no new protections
- Walk on by
Entry #20: Pam Sohn — Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chattanooga, Tenn.
- entry form
- six editorials
- Shootings must stop, and patterns offer clues
- Waiting on the cavalry
- As MLK said: "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability"
- Let's replace guns with caring
- Serial killer stalks city; apathy is its own witness
- A Chattanooga intervention: a violence vaccine long overdue