Email Author Bob Norman

Awards

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ

  The Daily Pulp

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  The Daily Pulp

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published November 27, 2008

  "The Lost Season"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published July 31, 2008

  "Stop Charlie"

• 2008 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published June 21, 2007

  "Gang Tackled"

• 2008 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published March 8, 2007

  "Witness for the Defense"

• 2008 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published June 21, 2007

  "Gang Tackled"

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published February 15, 2007

  "Dead End"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 15, 2006

  "Mayor Al Has to Go, Bad"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 5, 2006

  "A Politician Weeps"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 17, 2006

  "Who Crowned Michael Brown?"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 1, 2005

  "Spreading the Plame"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 11, 2005

  "Knight Riddance"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 29, 2005

  "Westside's Stories"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published October 20, 2005

  "A Tragedy of Errors"

• 2006 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published March 24, 2005

  "Cash Cow"

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2003 Stories by Bob Norman

• Out with the Truth

  published May 8, 2003

  When I called the Christian Coalition of Florida last week, the organization's deputy director, Carolyn Kunkle, answered. "Hi," I said, "my... More >>

• Political Therapy

  published May 1, 2003

  I was desperate for some relief from the Iraq war on cable television. All those generals -- along with quasi-governmental CIA creeps like James... More >>

• A Father's Plea II

  published April 24, 2003

  Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the 2001 murder of 3-year-old Kyle Venter. The boy was killed by his mother as... More >>

• A Father's Plea, Part I

  published April 17, 2003

  When Anthony Venter saw the crime-scene tape and police outside his estranged wife's apartment, he bolted from his car toward the door. Thinking... More >>

• War Crime

  published April 10, 2003

  As he watched the Iraq war on television, John Komyakevich had no idea he was about to become a casualty of the conflict. The 33-year-old... More >>

• An Absolute Disgrace

  published April 3, 2003

  The voice seethed: "You need to get a life, man. You are a sick individual. All this shit you are spewing all here all over the paper and this... More >>

• Dirty George and the War Pigs

  published March 20, 2003

  Out on the Crawford ranch, the president morphs into Dirty George. He gets that swagger down, walking with his spurs about four feet apart. His... More >>

• Don't Drink the Water

  published March 13, 2003

  When Nicholas Hoffman worked for the City of Pompano Beach, his duties ranged from the menial to the monumental. He didn't just clean the... More >>

• The Jackass Whimpers

  published February 27, 2003

  Valerie Silidker, a 28-year-old student with black John Lennon sunglasses and blond Glenn Close hair, spent a recent Saturday bobbing between... More >>

• Burn, Oliphant, Burn

  published February 13, 2003

  It's a blessing to live in a county where all elected officials but one are so good and wholesome. Great to breathe the same air as politicians... More >>

• Bobbing for War

  published January 30, 2003

  John Edwards has all the gravitas of John Boy and is almost as proven as a national leader. John Kerry has no presidential legs, but he's got... More >>

• Corruption and Nothingness

  published January 23, 2003

  Broward State Attorney Michael Satz, whose bald head and square jaw could have been chiseled from stone, refuses to admit defeat. Sitting in a... More >>

• Freedom to Die

  published January 16, 2003

  Newspapers around the country played the New Year's Eve suicides of Morris and Estelle Spivack as a dramatic spectacle. Almost every headline... More >>

• Slick Rick

  published January 9, 2003

  Wake Up and Smile! That's the name of the imaginary early-morning news show in one of the funniest Saturday Night Live skits... More >>