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Article: The bulldog returns: George Pawlaczyk back at Belleville News-Democrat.
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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George Pawlaczyk is back on the job as gung-ho reporter for the Belleville News-Democrat. Yep, the guy with the bad-boy reputation is back in town after a stint at a paper in Florida.
It's bad news for certain locals Pawlaczyk has stalked--public officials and authority figures, drunk drivers and miscreants of various stripes.
He's the Pit Bull of Belleville, quick to pounce and take a bite out of crime, or at least his prey. You can almost see the hapless souls bleeding as they are put in the public stocks that is often the News-Democrats front page.
Coming up with a steady stream of corruption stories, as Pawlaczyk does, isn't easy. And some ...