Jan 15 Health Care Reform Could Hinge on Close Mass. Senate Race By Quinn Bowman Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post spoke with Hari Sreenivasan about this week's big political story: the special election in Massachusetts to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Democrats are scrambling amid… Continue reading
Jan 15 Waiting for News From Haiti in Brooklyn By Ray Suarez BROOKLYN, N.Y.--The Haitians and Haitian-Americans of New York can see the newsstand photos of unimaginable suffering. They watch hour after hour of the television coverage that is now flowing freely from Port au Prince. For most of us, that coverage… Continue reading
Jan 14 Haiti: A Haunting History Lesson By Margaret Warner In all the public statements we've heard about the Haitian tragedy -- from President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or USAID chief Rajiv Shah -- no one had mentioned a key concern underlying the aggressive U.S. response. But… Continue reading
Jan 14 NPR Reporter: Relatively Minor Injuries Proving Fatal for Quake Victims By Hari Sreenivasan NPR correspondent Carrie Kahn called us late this afternoon from Haiti, where she has been covering treatment of quake victims and the frantic search for survivors in the hills around Port-au-Prince. She described American doctors' saying their patients… Continue reading
Jan 14 Salvation Army Disaster Chief: Bodies 'Piled Up Like Cordwood' By Dave Gustafson We spoke this afternoon with Bob Poff, the Salvation Army's divisional director of disaster services in Haiti, via Skype. Poff's apartment was destroyed and he and his wife lost most of their belongings. Quake victims have been pouring into… Continue reading
Jan 14 Hours From Epicenter, 'Secondary Stresses' for Haitian Hospital By Dave Gustafson We received an e-mail Wednesday from Ian Rawson, managing director of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti -- a 100-bed referral hospital in central Haiti's Artibonite Valley three hours north of Port-au-Prince -- about what he was witnessing: We were not… Continue reading
Jan 14 Scenes of Destruction in Haiti, From Above By Chris Amico Images of this week's massive earthquake in Haiti are now flowing out of the country as aid workers and journalists flow in. What we have seen so far confirms the obvious: devastation is massive and widespread. Buildings collapsed. Homes destroyed. Continue reading
Jan 14 Text Donations a Boon for Haiti Relief Effort By Jason Breslow As Haiti continues to reel from Tuesday's devastating earthquake, Americans are donating to the relief effort in droves, and for the first time ever, tens of thousands are doing so via text message. Any mobile phone user can donate $10… Continue reading
Jan 14 Haiti at Risk for Disease Outbreaks By Talea Miller Treating the injured is still the first priority in Port au Prince, but experts are raising the alarm about the urgent need to address other health issues before it's too late. Dr. Tammam Aloudat, of the International Federation of Red… Continue reading
Jan 14 Health Reform Negotations Continue as White House, Unions Reach Tentative Deal on 'Cadillac' Tax Updated 5:55 p.m. Union leaders have reached an agreement with the White House on a tax on high-cost "Cadillac" health care plans, one of the main sticking points in negotiating a compromise health care reform bill. In order to pay… Continue reading