INTRODUCING KATHLEEN PARKER.Byline: The Register-Guard Kathleen Parker Kathleen Parker is a conservative U.S. columnist whose columns frequently focus on family, sex roles, and race. Her column is syndicated nationally by The Washington Post Writers Group. brings two strengths to The Register-Guard's opinion pages: She often writes about subjects other columnists ignore - health care, gender issues, culture and family. And when she does address the political questions that are most columnists' standard fare, she brings to them wit, common sense and a perspective rooted outside the New York-Washington, D.C. media nexus. Parker began writing her column in 1987 as a staff member of The Orlando Sentinel The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of the Orlando, Florida region. It was founded in 1876 and is currently in its 131st year of publication. The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Company and is overseen by the Chicago Tribune. in Orlando, Fla. She left the newspaper the following year to work as a free-lance writer in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . Her column, syndicated since 1995, now appears in 300 newspapers. In 1993, Parker won The Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. Sun's H.L. Mencken Writing Award. The judges said she followed Mencken's tradition "in attacking ignorance and stupidity with vividness and originality o·rig·i·nal·i·ty n. pl. o·rig·i·nal·i·ties 1. The quality of being original. 2. The capacity to act or think independently. 3. Something original. Noun 1. ." Parker is a member of USA Today's board of contributors and has taught editorial writing and advanced feature writing at the University of South Carolina's College of Journalism and Mass Communications. - Jackman Wilson, editorial page editor |
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