Mar 27 Court of Public Opinion Weighs In on Health Care Reform Law By Christina Bellantoni People gather outside the Supreme Court Tuesday as justices hear arguments on the health care reform law. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. The nation's high court will be the center of the political universe Tuesday, with the key provision of… Continue reading
Mar 27 Supreme Court Reviews Health Care Reform Law: a Guide to Day 2 By Jason Kane Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images For more than two years now, it's been the nation's multibillion-dollar question: Can the federal government force Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine if they don't? Banking that the answer is yes,… Continue reading
Mar 26 Health Care Reform in the Supreme Court: Day 1 Audio and Transcript By Jason Kane Court sketch by William J. Hennessy Jr. Even the overflow section at the Supreme Court was overflowing Monday as the justices began hearing the first day of oral arguments in the health care reform law suit. Up first for their… Continue reading
Mar 26 Why I'm Protesting Health Care Reform: Voices of the Opposition By Jason Kane They came early. They came angry. They came from Georgia, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey and nearly every state in between. Hundreds of Tea Party Patriots gathered Saturday on Capitol Hill to officially voice -- once again -- their revulsion for… Continue reading
Mar 26 Health Care Reform Heads to the Supreme Court: A Guide to Day 1 By Jason Kane Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images It's all come down to this day. All the passion, politics and propaganda. Starting today, the frenzied national debate that's divided the nation since the passage of the health care reform law --… Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch News Wrap: Supreme Court Returns Jerusalem Status Passport Case to Lower Court In other news Monday, the Supreme Court dealt with two other cases of note including a disputed passport law that lets Americans list Israel as their birthplace if they were born in Jerusalem. Also, security forces in Afghanistan turned on… Continue watching
Mar 23 Health Care Reform by the Numbers By Vanessa Dennis It's almost judgment day for the health care reform law signed into law two years ago. As the Supreme Court considers next week whether to strike down President Obama's signature domestic accomplishment, all the numbers thrown around for the last… Continue reading
Mar 23 Confusion, Division Run Deep as Health Care Reform Goes to the Supreme Court By Jason Kane Tea Party supporters attend a rally in Searchlight, Nev., in 2010. Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images. Love it or hate it, most Americans don't understand the health care reform law. As the Supreme Court prepares for next week's arguments on… Continue reading
Mar 22 Should You Have to Buy Health Insurance? 2 Attorneys General Debate By Sarah Clune Attorneys general Ken Cuccinelli of Virginia and Martha Coakley of Massachusetts Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether the 2010 health reform law is constitutional. At the forefront will be the question of whether Congress has the… Continue reading
Mar 19 Facebook, Twitter Not Dominating News Landscape Just Yet The importance of using social media to promote a news organization's journalism is pretty much a given in any newsroom these days, but as popular as Facebook and Twitter are, they do not seem to be driving as much traffic… Continue reading