Mar 28 Will ‘Sea Change’ in Public Opinion Matter in Same-Sex Marriage Ruling? It isn't often that the country stops what it's doing as long as it did this week to pay attention to a Supreme Court argument -- in this case, to two of them, both with the potential to shake up… Continue reading
Mar 21 Judy’s Notebook: Three Years Later, Still in the Dark on the Affordable Care Act We've moved on to other news stories since then: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf, the shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Arab Spring, the killing of Osama Bin Laden and the 2012 presidential campaign, for… Continue reading
Mar 14 Judy’s Notebook: What Is Happening In Washington? Republicans and Democrats are talking to each other. The president spent an hour this week answering questions from his biggest critics -- House Republicans. This on the heels of a dinner with a dozen Senate Republicans, as yet another… Continue reading
Mar 07 Judy’s Notebook: Why Listening Is So Important (For a News Reporter) Last Friday on the NewsHour my colleague Ray Suarez reported on a documentary being released that day called "A Place at the Table." It's about how many more hungry people there are in America than most of… Continue reading
Feb 21 Judy’s Notebook: On Sequestration, Smartphone Apps and Girls’ Volleyball If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government. A cancer researcher at the National Institutes of Health, an investigator with the FBI, a long-time receptionist at Treasury, an engineer… Continue reading
Feb 14 Ten Things We Learned From the State of the Union Address Before it all fades from memory -- President Obama's declaration that "the state of our union is stronger," and his proposals to finish the task "to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just… Continue reading
Jan 31 Judy’s Notebook: My Mom Anna Lee Woodruff A week and a half ago, on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 8:10 p.m., in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Augusta, Ga., my 89-year-old mother passed away. My sister and I stood on either… Continue reading
Jan 10 Judy’s Notebook: Getting What We Want It was just a few weeks ago that the Christmas season had most of us in a frenzy over what we were giving each other, and what we were getting in return. Unless we're children, we profess to be concerned… Continue reading
Jan 03 Judy’s Notebook: Burden of a Generation As I watched the drama leading up to the Senate and House votes this week on the so-called fiscal cliff, my mind kept turning to young people. In particular, the giant generation of "millennials," those born in the 1980s and… Continue reading
Dec 12 Judy’s Notebook: Engaging Women and Young Voters Was Key for Obama Camp Elections are endlessly fascinating because of the questions they pose about why voters vote the way they do. In one of this season's numerous post-election analyses, President Obama's campaign pollster Joel Benenson makes it sound as if -- for… Continue reading