(Associated Press file photo ) U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents stand at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego in 2011. The nation's busiest border crossing connects San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. To save money on drugs, Utah is offering to cover travel expenses for public employees willing to go fill certain high-cost prescriptions in Tijuana.
Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.