'Taking Liberties' on the High Plains
As a longtime HCN subscriber, I
want to congratulate Ray Ring on winning the (George) Polk Award (I
just got your e-mail notice of the award at The Chadron
Record, where I am editor and publisher). “Taking
Liberties,” his article on the Libertarian election
initiatives, was a great example of how even a small paper can
produce excellent journalism, and scoop the media giants. Nebraska
was the target of one of the initiatives that Ray wrote about, a
state spending cap, and I have no doubt that the attention
generated by his article was a big reason the measure was defeated.
Thanks to High Country News for being
an inspiration to those of us who work in small-town community
journalism.
George Ledbetter
Editor
and publisher
The Chadron
Record
Chadron,
Nebraska