Oil isn’t America’s only black gold. And with the emerald glow as every candidate claims to be greener than the next, the jury is still out on the long-term future of the country’s most prevalent fossil fuel: coal. In coal-producing Illinois, coal’s role in the environment and economy promises to play a critical role. A [...]
Tag Archives: election
Going green with an economy in the red
October 20, 2008 – 4:41 pm
With the markets in the midst of a crisis that many are comparing to the Great Depression, some environmentalists are starting to worry that the go-green wave may lose its momentum in the face of more pressing economic concerns. From bloggers to scientists, a new speculative trend has now begun, with thinkers placing their bets [...]
Google Map Serves as Reporting Tool for News21 Team
June 27, 2008 – 7:00 am
At the Columbia News21 project on immigration and elections, we began our reporting this summer with many story ideas and a whole country to work with. To help focus our efforts, we put together a Google map (see below) where we indicated electoral races that might be useful in our coverage of immigration (blue pins), [...]
Direction Sugar Land
June 20, 2008 – 1:04 pm
The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate [...]
A Refugee…and a Republican
May 18, 2008 – 4:06 pm
Editor’s Note: Columbia News21 Fellow Don Duncan has been travelling in Afghanistan, following an Afghan refugee returning there to visit for the first time since being resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. Watch for additional updates on their two-week journey, which is being supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. When Dost Mohammad Khairy’s computer goes [...]
Accepting Defeat
March 10, 2008 – 11:56 pm
So I’ve finally finished my covering violence project — Accepting Defeat. You can check it out here. I’ve posted this feature because I think one issue “at stake” with the election that we haven’t talked about is gun control. When Democrats had control of the house in the early 1990s, they made gun control one [...]
Heavy lifting for manufacturing and for the next president
March 6, 2008 – 12:23 pm
Senator Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Ohio, putting a stop Senator Barack Obama’s winning streak. But in the weeks leading up to the election, both candidates marched around the state and spoke to the perennial Ohio concern: loss of manufacturing jobs. White House seekers have been doing it for years. They’ve found that [...]
