Derek Hawkins
Founding Member (since March 2008)I am Assistant Editor at NewsTrust. With traditional media in decline or consolidating, and new media on an exponential rise, it is more important than ever that we reconsider how we approach news. NewsTrust provides the critical and organizational tools to make us smarter, more skeptical news consumers and wiser citizens.
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How Stimulating
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Dislocated in America
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Republicans Hope For Just One Defection
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What to watch for in today's debate
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Sri Lanka refugees 'to be freed'
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Anticlimax in the Senate
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A bit self-serving, but there are good insights here about NPR's two-part series on health care costs. It says what anyone, liberal or conservative, *should* already know: partisanship oversimplifies the issues at stake in health care reform.
Reading the recent stories about the health care debate, a lot of them seem to restate issues and ask questions that have been on the table for months now. With the Senate slated to vote Saturday to move the debate forward, most of what we’re getting is horse race coverage. ... More »
“Health courts” remains a catchall phrase; the AMA and lawyers’ organizations certainly don’t agree on what would ... More »
Reiterates a lot of what we've already heard about the public option -- how it doesn't appease liberals, how conservatives have vowed to vote against it because it threatens business. Overall, an accurate analysis of the debate that will begin this weekend in the Senate.
The Democratic Senator Al Franken, when he heard about this, was horrified, and tabled a simple amendment to the law. It demanded that no company that prevents rape victims ... More »
A well-written, newsworthy story about a loophole in a new law that has brought "helicopter money" for home builders.This article discusses the role of lobbyists in securing tax breaks for home builders. Good sense of outrage without being unfair.
One can make an argument that throwing money at the banking system is necessary if we are to jump-start the economy. And banks need a bigger capital cushion to protect ... More »
Deep but scattered in some parts. A triage of information didn't seem to take place in this article. This only implies why NAM has fallen silent on climate change legislation (now moot since the Senate's postponed debate until spring) when it should have sought something more definitive. There's plenty about why they're opposed to the House bill, but I wonder if ClimateWire even asked some of its sources why NAM won't take a stance on the Senate version. The article hints that it's ... More »
Like the chamber, NAM was an outspoken critic of legislation that would cap carbon dioxide emissions and establish a national program for trading ... More »
Interesting background on Karzai provided by a former friend and neighbor. I'm weary about stories that rely on personal disclosures like this, but my image of Karzai is certainly broader now.
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Karzai’s Paranoid World
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-18/the-karzai-i-know/full/ (Pending)
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Pretty hard hitting for a piece in Time magazine, which can be middle-of-the-road on these issues. Quotes, factual evidence and some key anecdotes give a clear picture of the chamber's aggression in recent months.
While defending the organization against a recent series of high profile defections over its climate change policies, Chamber officials insist they are just faithfully ... More »
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High noon in Washington, D.C.
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Climate Change
Grist.org is the only news website I’ve seen so far that has a page dedicated to the Copenhagen climate talks:
http://www.grist.org/topic/copenhagen-climate-talks
This is where they post their stories and updates about the summit. They’ve also got a Twitter ... More »