Dec 08 Patchwork Nation: Media Landscape Shifts Online in a Wired Town If there is a community well positioned for the demise of a true local daily, it may be the heavily wired, tech-savvy college town of Ann Arbor, Mich. Continue reading
Dec 07 Diving Into Patchwork Nation By Hari Sreenivasan This week's Patchwork Nation series will feature reports from around the country on issues facing American communities. After a Web-only video postcard from the first city the series will explore -- Philadelphia -- I talk to Patchwork Nation director… Continue reading
Dec 07 Betty Ann Bowser: Public Option Debate Continues in Senate By Betty Ann Bowser It's all we've heard about for months: the public option, a government-run health insurance plan. Liberals love the idea. They say it would offer cheap insurance for the uninsured because there would be low administrative costs. And, they reason,… Continue reading
Dec 07 On Monday's NewsHour... By Simon Marks It's been a busy day in the PBS NewsHour's Washington newsroom. As you may know, Monday night you'll be able to watch our new broadcast debut, and we're spending the afternoon crossing each "t" and dotting each "i" in a… Continue reading
Dec 07 Tom Bearden: Photographers Focus on Family Portraits for Troops When members of the Armed Forces are far from home, few things are more important than reminders of their families -- particularly photographs. Those pictures can be found taped to office walls, in shirt pockets, and on the dashboards of… Continue reading
Dec 07 Paul Solman Wins Business Emmy for Unemployment Reporting By Carolyn O'Hara At the 7th Annual Business & Financial Emmy Awards luncheon today, Paul Solman and team won an Emmy for outstanding coverage of a current business news story for "Faces Behind the Numbers," a duo of pieces on U.S. unemployment. Continue reading
Dec 07 Kennedy's Seat Up For Grabs on Tuesday On Tuesday, Massachusetts Democrats will choose the likely Senate successor to late Edward M. Kennedy when they go to the polls to select the winner of the party's primary. The seat is currently held by a… Continue reading
Dec 07 Pentagon Orders 16,000 Troops to Afghanistan as Part of Obama's Surge The Pentagon announced today which military forces will deploy to Afghanistan as part of the troop buildup President Obama announced last week at West Point. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the first batch of troops would include 1,500 Marines… Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch With Afghan Plan Under Fire, Pentagon Issues First Deployments More than half of the 30,000 additional soldiers President Obama will send to Afghanistan received their deployment orders Monday, despite lingering questions over a planned drawdown beginning in 2011. Continue watching
Dec 07 Ray Suarez: Philadelphia as a Patchwork Nation Industrial Metropolis By Ray Suarez In a century, Philadelphia has moved from a city of skilled blue collar workers, an economy with more than half its jobs in manufacturing, to a city where one out of 20 workers made things for a living. Depending on… Continue reading