Pulitzer-Winning Kentucky Columnist John Ed Pearce Dies

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By: John Ed Pearce, a Louisville Courier-Journal editorial and feature writer and columnist whose work was also published frequently in the Lexington Herald-Leader died Monday -- his birthday -- at the age of 89.

Pearce died at Louisville Jewish Hospital from complications of cancer.

Pearce was a native of Virginia who had worked as a Kentucky newsman since the late 1940s.

Pearce shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service that the newspaper won in 1967 for its successful fight for stronger strip-mining controls. His other honors included the Governors Medallion for public service in conservation.

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