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Bonnie Erbé is an nonpartisan, award-winning American journalist and television host based in the Washington, D.C. area who has covered national politics for decades. She writes a weekly column for Scripps Howard Newspapers, a daily blog for USNews.com where she is a contributing editor and is working on a novel about religious symbolism in Washington, D.C.

She focuses in her journalism issues affecting women, families and communities of color, environment, religion and animal compassion. She has won more than 20 awards for her journalistic accomplishments.

Most recently, she was honored for her "pioneering: contributions to women's media by creating PBS' To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé and keeping it a vital part of PBS' program offerings for 18 seasons. http://www.womensmediacenter.com/press_releases/051909.html

She won the 2008 Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council Media Award for coverage of work-life issues. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS223429+26-Feb-2008+PRN20080226

She also won the 2008 Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org

Prior to that, she has won more than 15 (total) Clarion Awards from Women in Communications, Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio & TV and EMMA awards from the National Women's Political Caucus and formerly from Radcliffe College.

Personal
Erbé was born in New York City, but moved to Washington D.C. after graduation from college to cover politics. She graduated from Barnard College in 1974, Columbia University with an M.S. in Journalism in 1975 and a J.D. Georgetown University Law Center in 1987. She was on law revue at Georgetown and graduated cum laude. http://www.shns.com/index.php?title=results&type=column&wire=SH&query=B1/BONNIE_ERBE

Professional career
Bonnie Erbé is host and Executive-In-Charge of the PBS program, To the Contrary. She is also a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report, where she writes for the Thomas Jefferson Street blog. Earlier, she covered the Supreme Court and Justice Department for NBC Radio, the Congress for UPI Radio and worked as an NBC TV National Correspondent covering breaking news out of the network's Atlanta Bureau.

Views
Ms. Erbé is non partisan and toes no party line. She is not an affiliated Democrat or Republican, nor is she uniformly progressive or conservative. Ms. Erbé finds partisan politics tiresome and believes she represents the majority of Americans who think for themselves and do not subscribe to any partisan or ideological prescribed way of thinking. She believes the only people who think that way are either angling for political appointments or trying to impose their moral beliefs on the nation's laws.

She is, however, passionate about women's advancement in the U.S. and worldwide, about preserving green spaces and an environment that can support the human race and animal species for millenia to come, and animal compassion.

Talk
Bigspringswillson, please make use of talk:Bonnie Erbe to discuss the article. It's impossible to hold a discussion via edit summaries. I am going to cut the article down to a very short stub and request that it be locked pending the resolution of this dispute.  Will Beback   talk    01:08, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've also created a thread at WP:BLPN to get community input on this article. You're welcome to give your input there too.   Will Beback    talk    01:16, 9 June 2009 (UTC)