Columnists

• Editorial Staff
• Nationally Syndicated
• Entertainment Writers

Editorial Staff

CK Rairden, Publisher & Managing Editor

Cris Bergman, Senior Editor

Jill Atkins, Associate Editor

Nancy Streets, Associate Editor

Lynda Johnson

Nationally Syndicated

	Steve Chapman is a columnist and editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune and has been a member of the Tribune editorial board since 1981. He attended Harvard University, where he was on the staff of the Harvard Crimson, and graduated with honors in 1976. He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and has served on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School.
	Froma Harrop is a frequent guest on NPR and leading talk shows across the country and is an independent and witty voice for the thinking reader. Born in New York City, Harrop grew up on Long Island. She received a bachelor's degree from New York University, where she majored in history. Harrop lives in Providence, R.I. and is currently a member of the Providence Journal editorial board.
	Lynda Hirsch, the woman daytime TV producers call "the person who knows everything about daytime soaps," began writing celebrity profiles when she was 17. She graduated with a master's in fine and professional arts from Kent State University. Hirsch has become recognized as the authority on daytime television. Lynda maintains homes in both Cleveland and Manhattan, where she stays abreast of the latest happenings in the world of daytime television.
	David Limbaugh, a columnist and attorney practicing in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is the author of, most recently, "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity" He was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1978 and began practicing law in September 1978 and has continued in practice since. He is presently a partner in the law firm of Limbaugh, Russell, Payne and Howard.
	Chuck Norris is the star of more than 20 films and the long-running TV series "Walker, Texas Ranger." His book, "Against All Odds," tells the inspirational story of how he overcame abject poverty from childhood, the effects of his father's alcoholism and desertion of the family, and his own shyness and lack of strength and ability early in his life. Learn more about his life and ministry at his official website, ChuckNorris.com.
	Debra J. Saunders is a one-time registered Democrat turned Republican; she claims no loyalty to either party and takes pride in her unpredictability and irreverence for big-party politics. "I'm a Republican," she says, "but not a good Republican." She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin.
	Roger Simon is the chief political columnist of politico.com, an award-winning journalist and a New York Times best-selling author. He is a two-time winner of the Washington Monthly Journalism Award for political reporting. Simon has been a Poynter Media Fellow at Yale University, a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University, and in the spring of 2005 was a Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University.
	Matt Towery, is a graduate of England's Cambridge University and Florida's Stetson University Law School (Cum Laude) and served as the chairman of former Speaker Newt Gingrich's political organization from 1992 until Gingrich left Congress. He is a former Georgia state representative, the author of several books and currently heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage.
	Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith are featured in over 100 print publications and other media outlets with cutting edge celebrity news and insider scoop. The Beck/Smith syndicated newspaper column includes exclusive in-depth, behind-the-scenes reports on the stars, on the business of television and movie-making, and on the recording, publishing and media beats. Marilyn Beck is the show business reporter who changed entertainment coverage from frothy social notes to wide-ranging news. In her years on the beat, Hollywood's premier syndicated columnist has often moved stories off the entertainment page and onto the front page. Stacy Jenel Smith is a frequent guest on television and radio programs, Smith served as a regular correspondent on E! Entertainment Television's "The Gossip Show" for five years.

Entertainment Writers

• Cathy Beers writes from Chicago
• Debra Beste writes from San Diego
• Mary Browning writes from Phoenix
• Angela Carson writes from Vancouver
• Wendy Cook writes from Los Angeles
• Jennifer Cox writes from Seattle
• Brenda Davis writes from Boston
• Karen Diaz writes from Miami.
• Christi Hall writes from Kansas City
• Josh Hart writes from Las Vegas
• Susan Hatch writes from Phoenix
• Cyndi James writes from Denver
• Tina Johnson writes from Tucson
• Brenda Jones writes from Anaheim
• Julie Pike writes from San Francisco
• Jim Roberts writes from Manhattan
• Jon Shanks writes from Tempe
• Tina Sims writes from Miami and Phoenix
• Jess Snow writes from San Jose
• Jessica Warren writes from Las Vegas
• Jo Anne Way writes from Seattle

News, Crime Beat and DC Journal Writers

• Gene Byrd writes from California
• Jeff Freeland writes from Houston
• Keith Walters Jones writes from Baltimore
• Tim Morgan writes from Washington, DC
• Jackson Simpson writes from Newark