by Kathleen Janson on February 19, 2010
Roll Call Bill Clark staff photographer has won two Awards of Excellence from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) in two categories of the WHNPA Still Division, “On Capitol Hill” and “Insiders Washington.”
The first award was for the “On Capitol Hill” category. The winning photo captures Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi comforting former first lady Nancy Reagan after her emotional speech at the unveiling of a statue of former President Ronald Reagan at the U.S. Capitol.
Clark’s second award was for the “Insiders Washington” category. In this photo, Clark records the moment when former Rep. William Jefferson leaves the federal courthouse after being sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Clark has been a Roll Call staff photographer since 2006 and has previously won an “Award of Excellence” for coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He has been a photojournalist since 1990.
by Kathleen Janson on January 28, 2010
CQ-Roll Call Group today announced that Roll Call newspaper will be the first Capitol Hill publication to be printed on 100 percent recycled paper. The change will reduce the newspaper’s environmental impact, while improving the overall quality for readers and advertisers. It also kicks off a broader initiative to reduce the company’s overall carbon footprint.
The new green initiative will conserve the following resources:
- 8,620 trees
- 50,706 gallons of gasoline
- 5,273,910 kilowatts of electricity
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- 182,541 gallons of water
- 30,423 pounds of air pollutants
- 1,673 cubic yards of landfill space
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by Kathleen Janson on January 26, 2010
In his post today on TIME.com, reporter Kevin O’Leary wrote about a variety of options that people have available to them when facing homelessness.
He spoke with Mercy House Executive Director Larry Haynes to get a broad view of the types of programs that are available for homelessness-prevention and housing, and also interviewed Mercy House client, Jennifer Santana, to get a very personal view of what it’s like to be unexpectedly and suddenly homeless with your children for the first time.
After her husband left her, Jennifer Santana lost her job. When she was evicted from her apartment, Santana, 37, held her family together by living with a friend and then in her van. But as the nights grew cold in early December, she stood huddled with her three children in front of the Orange County cold-weather shelter in Santa Ana, Calif. “There were long lines of men and women, and the people were laying out mats on the floor. It was scary. I could not believe I was standing there with my kids.
Read the article in tday’s TIME.com article: The Feds’ Homelessness-Prevention Program
