Jul 3, 2008
(Photo by Phil Taylor)Gaffney, South Carolina’s one-million gallon “Peachoid.” Did you know Cherokee County, S.C., once produced more peaches than the entire state of Georgia? A million-gallon, peach-shaped water tower built along I-85 was my first hint while driving into Gaffney, where Duke Energy plans to build a 2,234 megawatt nuclear power plant.
Jul 2, 2008
(Photo by Phil Taylor) Duke Energy’s coal-fired plant in southern North Carolina. The company is studying whether an addition will capture a maximum of mercury emissions. Construction is planned during the study. Energy demand clashed with economics Tuesday morning at the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission hearing on the state’s long-term electricity demand, and the environment was caught somewhere in [...]
Jul 2, 2008
Flooded farms in Iowa may have far-reaching effects on corn prices and ethanol. (Photo by Eric Kroh) By Eric Kroh As farmers in Iowa clear sediment deposited on their land by the Mississippi, Iowa and Cedar rivers, it remains to be seen just how much damage the floods have done. At a community meeting in Wapello yesterday, close [...]
Jul 1, 2008
Duke Energy’s Lake Wylie Hydro Station, straddling York County, South Carolina and Mecklenburg, North Carolina, generates 60 megawatts of power, enough to power almost 10,000 homes. North Carolina passed an energy mandate last year requiring utilities like Duke to have 12.5 percent of its energy come from renewable sources and energy efficiency by 2021. By Phil [...]
Jun 30, 2008
Newly-naturalized citizens register to vote in Denver A key factor in a Barack Obama victory in Colorado, New Mexico, or Nevada will be his ability to turn out Latino voters. One segment of the Latino population specifically targeted in registration drives is newly naturalized citizens. Grace Lopez Ramirez, director of the Colorado chapter of Mi Familia Vota, [...]
Jun 30, 2008
Over the past several years, Hazleton, Pa., has attracted thousands of Hispanic immigrants, most of them from the Dominican Republic. This influx lead to conflict over illegal immigration in 2006 and 2007, thrusting Mayor Lou Barletta into the national news. This year, Barletta is running for Congress, his campaign based largely on that issue. “I [...]
Jun 27, 2008
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), [...]
Jun 25, 2008
News21 reporter Elizabeth Mendez Berry and I have been talking to Cubans in Miami over the past week, as we report our story on challenges to their political power from other Latinos, and from within their own community. And we have noticed many events and people recurring as points of reference for this community. For the [...]
Jun 23, 2008
When Arizona citizens supported Proposition 200 (pdf) in 2004, they became the first state in the nation to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Grassroots voter registration groups like Project Vote say the requirement has barred them from signing up one in nine eligible citizens who lack necessary documents, including 97-year-old [...]
Jun 20, 2008
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 [...]
November 11, 2007 — Medill Fellow Mrinalini Reddy's article on the TV series "Aliens in America" runs in The New York Times.
September 17 — Harvard Fellow Nik Steinberg's piece on the Catholic town of Ave Maria runs in the Miami Herald.
September 12 — MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Public Journalism Network's Leonard Witt review News21.
August 20 — Read the News21 Press Release.
August 8 — KCET, the Public Television station in Los Angeles, airs USC's "Magical Mystery Tour of California" this week. Their evening news program, "Life and Times," aired "Self-Realization Lake Shrine" on Monday, "Salvation Mountain" on Tuesday, "Integatron" airs Wednesday, "Ojai" on Thursday and "Mt. Shasta" on Friday.
August 5 — UC Berkeley fellow Pauline Bartolone's story on polygamy among African-American Muslims runs in the San Francisco Chronicle.
August 4 — News21 receives a glowing review from BoingBoing, one of the most popular blogs on the Internet. "These student presentations are better than anything I've seen from "real" news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism," writes Cory Doctorow.
August 3 — Harvard Fellow Nik Steinberg's radio piece on the Catholic town of Ave Maria airs on LatinoUSA.
July 26 — USC's Chantal Allan reports on The Yin and Yang of Positive Thinking for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
July 25 — USC Fellow Nick Street publishes an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on transcendental meditation being taught in schools.
July 22 — Columbia fellow John Soltes's A New Homeland in New York, about tensions surrounding Nigerian Catholics in a Brooklyn church, is published in the New York Times.
July 13 — USC fellow Nick Street's "Full Metal Lotus," about using meditation to help traumatized veterans, appears in the July 13-19, 2007 L.A. Weekly.
June 24 — Columbia fellow Tania Haas's story on Buddhists in Staten Island appears in the New York Times.
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