Vol. 15 No. 3/4 - Fall/Winter 1987

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The Best of the Press

• The Southern Journalism Awards

  Bob Hall

  1

• Homeless and Hungry in the Big D

  by David Tarrant, Melinda Henneberger, Leslie Pound and Dan Barriero, Dallas Morning News

  4

• The Water Below: The Poison in Our Wells

  by Dwayne Yancey, Roanoke Times & World-News

  8

• Don't Buy Insurance From This Man

  by David Davis, Charleston Gazette

  11

• Federal Fixup or Down-Home Fraud

  by Jim Keary and Tyler Taylor, Arkansas Democrat

  13

• Lynching on Wynn's Hill

  by Bill Winn, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

  17

• Kids Tangled in State Custody

  by Michele Day, Kentucky Post

  25

• Farmers' Harvest of Pain

  by Rebecca Hood-Adams, Jackson Clarion-Ledger

  28

• Policing Police Misconduct

  by Ira D. Perry, Houston Post

  31

• Underage Crews Clean Asbestos in Schools

  by Ann Mittman, Florida Today

  38

• Squeezed Out of Northern Virginia

  by Bill Adair and Vera Titunik, Fairfax Journal

  39

• Patients Nobody Wants

  by Rita Rubin and Olive Talley, Dallas Morning News

  42

• The Death of Vinson P. Harris

  by Sally Jacobs, News and Observer

  45

• Ruins for Rent in the State Capitol

  by William Rabb and Jimmie Gates, Jackson Daily News

  49

• Amnesty for Immigrants: Will It Work

  by Dudley Althaus, Richard Beene, Jeff Collins, Tom Curtis, Richard S. Dunham, Robert M. Feinstein, David Fritz, David Pasztor, Lisa Hoffman, and John Cormack, Dallas Times Herald

  52

• Prosperity's Broken Promise

  by Steven Beschloss, Virginian-Pilot

  56

• Depression Dark as a Coal Mine

  by Rick Bragg and Dean Barber, Birmingham News

  61

• Study in Black & White

  by Sally Huguley, The State

  66

• Falling from Grace: The PTL Scandal

  by Charles E. Shepard, Charlotte Observer

  68

• Who's Watching the PACs?

  by Mike Pigott, Nashville Banner

  72

• The Yankee Lake Deal

  by Roger Roy, Jim Eusner, and Mark Andrews, Orlando Sentinel

  74

• Teen Pregnancy: An Alabama Tragedy

  by Rose Wojnar, Emily Bentley, Dwayne Hood and Peggy Roberts

  77

• The Pamlico's Troubled Waters

  by Frank Tursi and Paul Haskins, Winston-Salem Journal

  81

• The Last Stop: Foundation Park

  By Greg Raver-Lampman, Charise Lyles, Kerry DeRochi, Tony Wharton, Matthew Bowers, Melissa Huff, Sarah Kinsman, Joseph V. Phillips and Tony Stein, Virginian-Pilot

  83

• White Control Circumvents Black Power

  by Priscilla Painton, Jim Auchmutey and Chet Fuller, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  85

• What Price Learning?

  by Anne E. Hartung and Kathryn Smith, Anderson Independent-Mail

  88

• The Great Toyota Giveaway

  by Alecia Swasy, Lexington Herald-Leader

  92

• The Great Toyota Giveaway

  by Joan Kent, Sun Herald

  94

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