Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008
Click on photo to enlarge or download: Audrie GarrisonAudrie Garrison, 21, is a senior at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., and is one of this summer's Scripps Howard Foundation Wire's interns with the Semester in Washington program. She is originally from New Palestine, Ind. She is a journalism and political science major and regularly writes and edits for IU's daily student newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student. She will be editor-in-chief of the paper in the fall. She has also worked as a summer intern at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix and the Shelbyville News in Shelbyville, Ind.
Audrie was first introduced to the Scripps Howard Foundation when she traveled to Japan and South Korea in 2006 with eight other students as part of the Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition. She was also a Scripps Howard Foundation Top Ten Scholar in 2006.
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McCain, Obama attempt to lure Hispanic voters
Submitted on July 8, 2008 - 10:54pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - Presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama reached out to Hispanic voters Tuesday.Both spoke at the League of Latin American Citizens Convention, a five-day event that draws more than 15,000 participants each year.McCain spoke earlier in ..
Future airline travel could look like the 1950s
Submitted on July 3, 2008 - 2:13pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - For now, George Hoffer is used to flying a lot. He and his 26-year-old son have been traveling to baseball games and NCAA tournaments across the country since his son was in middle school. Usually, they fly - they've flown into about 60 airports. It's a common, modern mode of ..
D.C. officials begrudgingly accept defeat in gun ban case
Submitted on June 26, 2008 - 5:24pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - D.C. officials called Thursday's Supreme Court decision striking down the city's gun ban "disappointing" and said they will craft new regulations to be as strict as possible. The 5-4 ruling deemed D.C.'s prohibition on hand guns, which has existed for more than ..
WNBA champions honored at White House
Submitted on June 23, 2008 - 4:09pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008Click on photo to enlarge or download: Phoenix Mercury General Manager Ann Meyers Drysdale, left, guard Cappie Pondexter, President Bush, guard Diana Taurasi, coach Corey Gaines, guard Jennifer Derevjanik and team President Jay Parry celebrate their 2007 title. SHFWire photo by Audrie ..
Hearing is ‘wake-up call’ for horse racing industry
Submitted on June 19, 2008 - 5:04pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - If the horse racing industry does not create a national governing body to regulate breeding and the use of steroids, Congress will likely step in, House members said Thursday. Most committee members and many witnesses at a House subcommittee meeting advocated banning the use of all ..
Study: New, longer SAT barely better at predicting success in college
Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 4:22pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - The new SAT is not much better or worse at predicting a student's success in college than the old one, according to the first validity study of the test, released Tuesday. The new test, introduced in 2005, added a third section - a writing test - and made changes to the original ..
National award ‘frosting on the cake’ for Denver Samaritan
Submitted on June 18, 2008 - 11:12am. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008Click on photo to enlarge or download: Harry Vogler, left, meets Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., in Washington on Tuesday at the awards ceremony for the Jefferson Awards for Public Service. SHFWire photo by Chery S. NtumyWASHINGTON - When Harry Vogler received an award in 2007 for his work with a center ..
Nancy Sinatra testifies for performers’ royalties
Submitted on June 12, 2008 - 12:12pm. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - Sisqó, Nancy Sinatra and other artists came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to support a House bill that would require radio stations to pay royalties to performers. Sinatra, famous for her No. 1 hit, "These Boots are Made for Walking," testified at the hearing for H.R. 4789, ..
McClellan’s first bookstore event draws crowd with questions
Submitted on June 11, 2008 - 11:23am. Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008WASHINGTON - Barbara Elsas had been waiting for this. The 61-year-old Washington resident and nursery school operator was armed with questions for former White House press secretary Scott McClellan when he arrived at Politics and Prose, a D.C. bookstore, Tuesday for his first in-store book event ..
