David Ashenfelter celebrated his first anniversary as public information officer for the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan in Detroit, following a 46-year news career at newspapers in Kokomo and Bloomington, Indiana, and Detroit. He won nearly 80 local, state and national newswriting awards over the years, including two Pulitzer Prizes: 1982 Public Service for The Detroit News, and 2009 Local News as part of a six-member reporting team at the Detroit Free Press. He retired from the Free Press in 2012. (October 2017)