Update on John & Georgia MacDonald

The MacDonalds (John and Georgia) are alive and well in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Up until Christmas Eve, John was still working for the Hartford Courant covering health care issues on the Hill and Supreme Court cases of interest to Connecticut. Then the Chicago Tribune, which owns the Courant and other former LA Times papers, began cutting back on staff of its papers' Washington bureaus. He opted for a buyout rather than return to Hartford. After a week's vacation, he began a new job as director of media relations at a D.C. think tank, Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), which deals with issues he covered as a reporter, so it was a good fit. His new e-mail address: macdonald@ebri.org

Georgia is still with The Gazette Newspapers, a string of weeklies owned by the Washington Post and circulated in much of Maryland. She left the news end of things five years ago and has handled the editorial pages for 17 community weeklies and one statewide edition of the papers.
She also has returned to her first love, art, and has even won some prizes.
Her e-mail address: gmacdonald@gazette.net