Congratulations!

Ana Maria Soto of Columbia College's brother Onell Soto is on the news staff that just won a Pulitzer for National Reporting at the San Diego Union Tribune. The paper's investigation, done in collaboration with Copley News Service of former U.S. Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, one of the more blatantly corrupt members of Congress--and to think he's not in Illinois!--shared the prize with The New York Times, which won for reporting on secret domestic eavesdropping.

Ana Maria is the best connected person in the whole world, I think! She is a leader in the Latino communications community--National Hispanic Media Coalition--which is a small but we hope growing component of the Latino nonprofit community's infrastructure, we hope.

Congratulations Ana !