Will the state pay you for a wrongful conviction? Depends on the state.
ABC News, Published: April 17, 2019
NEW ORLEANS, La.– Malcolm Alexander has a complicated 
relationship with time. The fact that he doesn’t want to waste a day makes sense, considering he spent the last 38 years in one of the country’s most notorious prisons after being wrongly convicted.(continued…)
Arizona Senate race: Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally battle to be the next senator in ‘cowboy country’
ABC News, Published: Aug. 18, 2018
PHOENIX, Ariz.– Calls for politicians to “grow a pair of ovaries” and digs about how many shoes a candidate have might sound like lines out of “Mean Girls,” but instead they’re attack lines being used in one of the most hotly contested midterm Senate races.(continued…)
Roberts County: A year in the most pro-Trump town in America
ABC News, Published: Jan. 17, 2018
MIAMI, Tex.– Miami is a town in the Texas panhandle where everyone knows everyone at the grocery store and servers at the local diner know who likes what kind of pie with their chicken fried steak. (continued…)
The Only Two Living US Mass School Shooters Who Are Not Incarcerated
ABC News, Published: Feb. 17, 2016
Adam Lanza killed himself. So did Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech. And so did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in Columbine. And Christopher Harper-Mercer in Roseburg. And Elliot Rodger in Isla Vista. (continued…)
TURKEY CREEK: Surviving The Storm
ABC News, Published: Aug. 26, 2015
GULFPORT, Miss.– When Hurricane Katrina slammed into Gulfport, Mississippi, those in the neighborhood of Turkey Creek came together to help each other survive. The release of this multimedia project was timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the devastating storm.
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Panhandling as a Social Experiment
The Local East Village blog of The New Yo rk Times, Published: June 24, 2011
Chris Coon takes a very methodical 
and well-accounted approach to panhandling, not because he is particularly fond of organization, but because he thinks of his work on the sociological level.
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Declassified testimony reveals that Department of Defense officials didn’t think it was necessary to amp up security in Benghazi because of the 9/11 anniversary
The Daily Mail’s website MailOnline, Published: Jan. 14, 2014
Hundreds of pages 
of transcripts from House Armed Services Committee hearings in the wake of the fatal Benghazi attack show the dispersed security forces were unable to handle a sudden attack.(continued…)
How Does The Lobster Glut Affect You?
Food Republic, Published: July 18, 2011
It’s one of the food world’s great ironies: As the price of most basic ingredients is way up, one of the most exclusive ingredients is becoming cheaper and cheaper. The lobster dinner, which often conjures up images of restaurants with crisp white linen tablecloths and posh waiters serving expensive wines by candlelight, is now something that can be had at a fast food restaurant.
Hoboken’s Older Drinkers Prepare for St. Patrick’s Day
The Huffington Post, Published: March 4, 2011
Even though St. Patty’s Day is arguably a holiday with no age cut-off, there is a societal expiration date for public booze-fests. How old is too old for early morning beer drinking and day-long public intoxication? The line is, appropriately, fuzzy. (continued…)
4 of the 5 counties with the most death penalty executions are in Texas: Data
ABC News, Published: March 23, 2019
Within two southern states, Texas and Oklahoma, five counties are responsible for one in five executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976, according to data from the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). (continued…)
Arizona’s Democrats among the many mourning McCain’s ‘heartbreaking’ death
ABC News, Published: Aug. 26, 2018
BISBEE, Ariz.– The residents of Bisbee, a quirky old mining town in Arizona just miles from the Mexican border, pride themselves on being what they call a “blue pocket in a red state.” (continued…)
High hopes in coal country with Trump’s climate change policy
ABC News, Published: May 18, 2017
GILLETTE, Wyo.– Ever since November, Stacey Moeller, a 58-year-old lifelong Democrat, feels a sense of hope when she wakes up at 3:45 each morning. The unexpected reason: Donald Trump. (continued…)
Ruby Ridge siege, 25 years later, a ‘rallying cry’ for today’s white nationalists
ABC News, Published: Aug. 18, 2017
Public protests by self-declared white supremacists. Criticism of how police handled a violent standoff. Three deaths. These events recall last week’s outbursts in Charlottesville, Virginia, but actually describe a 25-year-old incident in a forested region of northern Idaho, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border.(continued…)
Jose’s Journey: One Unaccompanied Minor’s Escape From Violence and Redemption in America
ABC News, Published: Oct. 28, 2014
Pete Homeyer had never served tamales at Christmas dinner at his house in Michigan before, but last December the classic Honduran staple was placed right next to the roast beef the help make Jose, a foster child who arrived in America as an unaccompanied minor at age 16, feel more at home. Jose, now 18, had spent the previous Christmas in a holding facility in Texas after escaping violence in Honduras.(continued…)
Physician, Heal Thy Deficit
Westchester Magazine, Published: May 24, 2011
It wasn’t a particularly unusual scene for Fox Lane Middle School: an instructor stood in front of a large group, clicking through a PowerPoint presentation and explaining new vocabulary words. It could have been a class in Government 101, as the teacher defined “continuing resolutions” and showed bar graphs to explain the decreasing funds for Social Security. (continued…)
In the East Village, A Dearth of Rentals
The Local East Village blog of The New York Times, Published: June 17, 2011
When scouring apartment listings, it always seems like that time — that particular time when you decided to move — was the worst possible choice because there are so few apartments available. For those searching now, they’re not just imagining it. The percentage of available apartments in Manhattan this May hit its lowest rate in the past five years. (continued…)
Is No Labels Something New?
The Huffington Post, Published: Dec. 21, 2010
Sure, it was new. In the undeniably partisan climate of today’s American political scene, still reeling from the divisive tactics of attack ads used during November’s midterm elections, the idea of Democrats and Republicans coming together definitely seemed novel and different.
But was it really? (continued…)
After Tax Vote, New York Tea Partiers Fume
The New York Observer, Published: Dec. 17, 2010
Less than two months after electing what they would hope will be an army of deficit hawks, New York’s Tea Party activists are fuming that the current Congress approved another round budget-busting stimulus in yesterday’s deal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. (continued…)
