Schultz embraces dual roles as senator's wife, columnist

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Monday, January 22, 2007
Laura Taxel

Connie Schultz is ready for life to return to normal, whatever that is.

Not only is she an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, she's the wife of the new Democratic senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown. Combining the two roles could be complicated.

The task begins today, as Schultz returns to her desk in The Plain Dealer's newsroom, from which she took a leave of absence in February to devote herself to Brown's campaign.

The two first met face to face on New Year's Day in 2003. Brown was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. They married on April 10, 2004...