Helen Ubinas is columnist for the Hartford Courant, where she writes on events of national and local significance, from same sex marriage to the death penalty. In 1999, she was a member of a Courant reporting team whose coverage of a Connecticut lottery worker’s shooting rampage won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Ubinas’ work has also been recognized by the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. She and her husband, Michael Dunne, live in Connecticut.