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Documentary filmmaker with a background in theatre and writing. Avid non-fiction reader.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 59 votes / 1 sink
VIDEO: Netscape New Orleans Voices - The Mardi Gras Indians
Music – During Mardi Gras 2006, Netscape had the chance to talk with Mardi Gras Indians Monk Boudreaux, Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, and David Montana, Second Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas, about their Mardi Gras Indians suits and what the traditions of Mardi Gras mean to them.
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
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Voted for on August 16, 2007 02:29am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 129 votes / 15 sinks
Illegal immigrant to depart Chicago sanctuary
News – An illegal Mexican immigrant who became a voice for families facing deportation by taking sanctuary in a Chicago church a year ago said on Wednesday she will leave her refuge to take her fight to Washington.
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Voted for on August 15, 2007 06:43pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 54 votes / No sinks
Death Toll in Iraq Blasts Rises to 250
News – Rescuers used bare hands and shovels Wednesday to claw through clay houses shattered by an onslaught of suicide bombings that killed at least 250 and possibly as many as 500 members of an ancient religious sect in the deadliest attack of the Iraq war. The U.S. military blamed al-Qaida in Iraq, and an American commander called the assault an "act of ethnic cleansing."
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(huffingtonpost.com)
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Voted for on August 15, 2007 06:07pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks
Utah Mine Owner: Troubling Safety Record, Useful Political Clout
News – In 2003, when safety inspectors ordered the owner of a Utah coal mine where six workers have been trapped for more than a week to shut down one of his Ohio operations because of repeated safety problems, local press reports say he did not hesitate to flex his political muscle to get the inspectors off his back.
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(huffingtonpost.com)
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Voted for on August 15, 2007 08:34am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 64 votes / 2 sinks
VIDEO: Healthcare Rally in Los Angeles
News – In an earlier post, NewsQuake covered the groundswell of support for California's Senate Bill 840 (SB 840), the Universal Healthcare Act. But that story is far from over. On August 11, the OneCareNow campaign hosted the biggest rally for universal healthcare in U.S. history. Several luminaries spoke in support of SB 840, which is cosponsored by State Senator Sheila Kuehl.
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
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Voted for on August 14, 2007 01:41am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 59 votes / 1 sink
Farms Stays in Sardinia
Travel – WE were not 10 miles out of Cagliari, the cosmopolitan capital of Sardinia, when the late-afternoon traffic halted. The cause was soon apparent: a flood of long-haired sheep, blank eyes framed by wild white dreadlocks, spilling slowly across the highway.
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(travel.nytimes.com)
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Voted for on August 12, 2007 09:24am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 68 votes / 4 sinks
VIDEO: Netscape's New Orleans Voices --The Tipitina's Foundation
Music – For the past three decades, Tipitina's has been a hub of the New Orleans music scene. Everyone has played at the uptown club, whose premises formerly housed a gambling den and a brothel. It comes as no surprise, then, that the place is playing a key role in rekindling the city's post-Katrina musical spark.
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
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Voted for on August 08, 2007 12:35am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 160 votes / 15 sinks
A Case for Universal Healthcare in California
News – Since its release on July 29, Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" has created a nationwide buzz about universal health care. In the accompanying video, Netscape Anchor Alexia Prichard covers the action in Santa Clarita, CA, where a group of activists have been lobbying for the passage of Senate Bill 840, also known as The Universal Health Care Act.
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Voted for on August 05, 2007 11:29pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 124 votes / 5 sinks
Court Restricts Self-Described Pedophile
News – A self-described pedophile who says he is attracted to young girls but doesn't actually molest them was ordered Friday to stay at least 30 feet away from every person under age 18 in California.
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(newsvine.com)
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Voted for on August 03, 2007 09:40pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 122 votes / 4 sinks
Nationwide bridge inspections ordered
News – U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters notified state transportation departments Thursday to immediately inspect all bridges of the same design as the one that collapsed Wednesday in Minnesota.
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Voted for on August 02, 2007 09:25pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks
Courtin' the Left and Right: Roberts Scare Seizes the Trail
News – After calling John G. Roberts Jr. two years ago last month to ask him to serve on the Supreme Court, President Bush hung up and told aides, "I just offered the job to a great, smart, 50-year-old lawyer." The emphasis, of course, was on "50-year-old" -- Bush's way of saying he had just made a choice that would help shape the Supreme Court for three or four decades to come. Or so he thought.
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Voted for on August 02, 2007 09:13pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks
Iraq salutes its Asian Cup soccer finalist
Sports – They're stocking up on fuel for their generators, snapping up flags and team T-shirts, and decorating their cars with flowers. Soccer fever has reached new heights in Iraq ahead of the national squad's first-ever Asian Cup final.
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(latimes.com)
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Voted for on July 28, 2007 11:07am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 54 votes / 2 sinks
VIDEO: Can Candidates Tell The Truth?
Politics – With tonight's vox-pop-driven Democratic debate just hours away, it seemed like a good moment to ask a fundamental question: does our electoral system reward the most agile fudging, evasion, and outright fibbing? In the video below from the 2007 Milken Institute Global Conference, panelists Arianna Huffington and Ken Mehlman answer at length. Even more impressively, the high-profile progressive and the former RNC chairman come to similar conclusions about the role of honesty on the stump.
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
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Voted for on July 23, 2007 02:06pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 48 votes / No sinks
2008: Democrats Face User-Generated Debate
News – The Democratic presidential candidates and their aides have likely been spending a lot of time lately combing through videos on YouTube's Web site in preparation for tonight's first-ever CNN/YouTube presidential debate in Charleston, S.C. The candidates will have to respond to several dozen of the 2,989 homemade question videos that users submitted.
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(thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Voted for on July 23, 2007 10:53am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 83 votes / 8 sinks
Has The New Harry Potter Been Leaked?
Books – To nobody's surprise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has broken all sorts of records, notching preorders in the millions. With just five days before publication, however, there may now be a fly in the wizardly ointment. According to reports like this one, from Canada's National Post, at least some portions of the book may have been leaked online:
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(newsquake.netscape.com)
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 12:45pm
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