Senate Resolution 125 - Introduced SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 125 BY QUIRMBACH , MATHIS , and D. JOHNSON A Resolution recognizing and congratulating Andie 1 Dominick on winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in 2 editorial writing. 3 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has been an editorial writer 4 for the Des Moines Register since 2001, writing 5 numerous editorials on health care policy in Iowa; and 6 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer 7 Prize in editorial writing for her editorials on the 8 implementation and effects of managed care for Medicaid 9 and other significant health care issues in Iowa; and 10 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick is one of seven Iowans 11 in history to win the Pulitzer Prize in editorial 12 writing; and 13 WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize Board praised Ms. 14 Dominick’s work for “examining in a clear, indignant 15 voice, free of cliche or sentimentality, the damaging 16 consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the 17 state’s administration of Medicaid”; and 18 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has long shown a passion for 19 writing on health care and related matters, including a 20 series of editorials on professional licensing in Iowa 21 for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014 and 22 a memoir on growing up with diabetes; and 23 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick’s editorials were based on 24 extensive, collaborative, and factual reporting by her 25 and other members of the Des Moines Register’s newsroom 26 staff; NOW THEREFORE, 27 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate 28 -1- LSB 6258XS (4) 87 je/rj 1/ 2
S.R. 125 recognizes and congratulates Andie Dominick for her 1 outstanding achievement in winning the 2018 Pulitzer 2 Prize in editorial writing. 3 -2- LSB 6258XS (4) 87 je/rj 2/ 2