Mon
Jul 30 2018
07:24 am
By: Mark Harmon
Great News. I have won the National Press Club's Angele Gingras Humor Award for humorous column writing. The judges said “Harmon has a knack for taking a simple idea or detail -- Mitch McConnell's going to hell, no one remembers meeting the Russian ambassador -- and spinning it into a highly creative scenario.”
The award winners and honorable mention winners will be honored August 30 at the National Press Club in Washington.
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Congratulations! You deserve
Congratulations! You deserve it.
If only you were still
If only you were still writing a column...Lots of us think the same thought!