Terry Cowgill

You Shoulda Went to Law School

Kudos to my colleague Rick Green of The Hartford Courant, who took first prize in the 2007 National Awards for Education Reporting from the National Education Writers Association. Rick won the award for a column he wrote last year on a substitute teacher in Norwich facing criminal charges because porno pop-up windows inadvertently started appearing on a computer one day in her classroom.

Because of Rick’s fine work (and that of others), the teacher’s conviction was overturned. We like Rick at the LJ because he is one of the only Courant writers (along with Cornwall resident Rinker Buck) who ventures out to the NWC to actually see what’s going on. For his trouble, Rick gets a plaque and $150, which just might be enough to fill his car’s tank come Christmas time.