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Erika Bolstad

Erika Bolstad

Regional Correspondent

E-mail Erika Bolstad at ebolstad@mcclatchydc.com

Erika Bolstad covers Washington for the Anchorage Daily News and the Idaho Statesman.

Her work on the Larry Craig scandal for the Statesman was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category.

She came to the McClatchy Washington bureau in 2007 from the Miami Herald, where she spent seven years covering politics, the state legislature, local government and hurricanes — including Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans. Prior to working at the Herald, Bolstad spent three years as a reporter at the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. She began her career covering military affairs at The Item in Sumter, S.C.

Bolstad was born in Minneapolis, Minn., and raised in Willamina and Salem, Ore. She is a graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.

Erika Bolstad's Latest Story

Polar bear to be listed as a threatened species

By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy Newspapers

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday that the agency will list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a decision that could cast the bears as the enduring symbol of the effects of global warming. » read more

Posted on Wed, May 14, 2008

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