Anchor Dakota

A reporter for Propeller, Dakota writes the Overlooked column for the web site. If you submitted a story and feel it deserves a second look, email her with the link! Dakota@propeller.com.

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Overlooked: Sonar and Navy
This story has mostly positive ratings. 45 votes / 2 sinks

Overlooked: Sonar and Navy

News – Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review the case of Winter v. NRDC, a case ostensibly about the Navy's use of sonar during military training exercises, but in reality about the extent of President Bush's power in influencing court decisions.

Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 11:07am

Overlooked: Paparazzi Vs. Surfers
This story has mostly positive ratings. 100 votes / 1 sink

Overlooked: Paparazzi Vs. Surfers

News – Last weekend in Malibu, a group of paparazzi descended on the beach to take photos of actor Matthew McConaughy, who was surfing nearby. On this particular day, the group was confronted by a group of local surfers.

Submitted and Voted for on June 26, 2008 09:48pm

Overlooked: Obama's Anti-Smear Site
This story has mostly positive ratings. 131 votes / 9 sinks

Overlooked: Obama's Anti-Smear Site

Politics – Last week, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign launched a new website solely dedicated to debunking untruths about his life. Called Fight The Smears, the site is laid out in a clean, simple style: it lists each rumor, then neatly debunks it.

Submitted and Voted for on June 19, 2008 12:30pm

MySpace Suicide Mother Pleads Not Guilty
This story has mostly positive ratings. 116 votes / 1 sink

MySpace Suicide Mother Pleads Not Guilty

News – Lori Drew, 49, pleaded not guilty in federal court today to charges in a MySpace hoax allegedly linked to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.

Submitted and Voted for on June 17, 2008 02:31am

Overlooked: Fighting Gay Marriage
This story has mostly positive ratings. 88 votes / 6 sinks

Overlooked: Fighting Gay Marriage

News – Propeller checks in with the battle over gay marriage in California and talks to user David-NWA about why this story interested him.

Submitted and Voted for on June 09, 2008 11:53pm

Overlooked: NewsHour's Money Problems
This story has mostly positive ratings. 99 votes / 3 sinks

Overlooked: NewsHour's Money Problems

News – Nightly PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer may be popular with Propeller Scout Corey Spring, but a New York Times story about the show's funding difficulties wasn't a hit with users.

Submitted and Voted for on May 28, 2008 11:35am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 36 votes / No sinks

Rocketman flies over Alps with jet-pack strapped to his back

News – Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings on his back and loop the loop above the Swiss Alps. The self-built contraption took the former fighter pilot five years to build and perfect - and yesterday he gave it its maiden flight.

Voted for on May 16, 2008 10:20am

Interior Dept. Declares the Polar Bear a Threatened Species
This story has mostly positive ratings. 104 votes / 3 sinks

Interior Dept. Declares the Polar Bear a Threatened Species

Science – The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.

Voted for on May 15, 2008 11:13am

Understanding AOL and Bebo
This story has mostly positive ratings. 61 votes / 1 sink

Understanding AOL and Bebo

News – When AOL announced in March that it would acquire social-networking service Bebo for $850 million, there was a collective gasp from those watching the company.

Submitted and Voted for on May 13, 2008 04:01pm

Overlooked: Ghosts Towns of Minnesota
This story has mostly positive ratings. 74 votes / No sinks

Overlooked: Ghosts Towns of Minnesota

News – If there's an epicenter to the country's real-estate downturn, it may be just be Wright County in Northwest Minnesota. As outlined in the recent three-part Star-Tribune feature "From Boom to Bust," the county, located 30 miles from the Twin Cities, is facing the brunt of the subprime mortgage meltdown and overbuilding.

Submitted and Voted for on April 25, 2008 01:14am

Heroes and Villains: A Conversation with Errol Morris
This story has mostly positive ratings. 89 votes / 2 sinks

Heroes and Villains: A Conversation with Errol Morris

News – Errol Morris's new film, "Standard Operating Procedure," is a hypnotic meditation on the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs. In this Propeller interview, he discusses the documentary, the scandal, and the pictures themselves, which he calls "a State of the Union address in its most perverse form."

Voted for on April 22, 2008 11:18am

Wall Street Journal Editor Expected to Resign
This story has mostly positive ratings. 119 votes / 3 sinks

Wall Street Journal Editor Expected to Resign

News – Marcus W. Brauchli will step down as the top-ranking editor of The Wall Street Journal after less than a year in the job, four people briefed on the matter said on Monday, just four months after Rupert Murdoch took control of the paper.

Submitted and Voted for on April 22, 2008 01:40am

Overlooked:
This story has mostly positive ratings. 151 votes / 3 sinks

Overlooked: "Let Them Return"

News – Starting in 1968, the United States and Britain began forcibly removing 2,000 Chagossian people from an island in the Indian Ocean so the U.S. could build a military base.

Submitted and Voted for on April 17, 2008 11:31pm Commented on 1 time: 1

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

Carmelo Anthony arrested on suspicion of DUI

Sports – Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony was arrested on suspicion of DUI charges on early Monday in the Denver area, police reported.

Voted for on April 14, 2008 02:51pm

Why Blogging May Be the Death of Me
This story has mostly positive ratings. 80 votes / 1 sink

Why Blogging May Be the Death of Me

Gadgets & Tech – Blogging may be the death of me. The struggle to find new and interesting things to write and the stress of a deadline that, at least for me, doesn't really exist in real terms but in my OCD-riddled mind, contribute to a type-A lifestyle.

Voted for on April 07, 2008 10:31am