natalie jennings
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Adaptive Journalism
It’s something forward-thinking digital journos have been doing for years — even before the social and mobile fast trains left...
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Oh, D.P.
The text: “If you have young friends who aspire to be writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of...
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Art at a Snail’s PaceYou’ve finally made it, after a breathless climb up the winding marble staircase, to the upper terrace of the Duomo di Milano...
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“‘Girl Meets World’ will focus on a middle school girl. How old are you now? Thirty? Let it go. ‘Homeland’ is on.”— Jessica Goldstein, on...
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Romeo And Juliet, Williams Shakespeare
What if your favorite literary characters had away messages?
From now through Election Day, Washington Post journalists are traveling through a key battleground state, Virginia, to listen in as voters wrestle with the issues of 2012. The second installment of the “Liberty, through the lens” series is a photo and audio essay of their responses to…
Romney’s heading to Colorado’s wind energy hub on Thursday. Will he make energy a big deal then?
Colorado’s diverse energy resources are bountiful and their development is a crucial issue for many voters here. But the presidential campaigns haven’t made energy a centerpiece of their campaigns in the state.
With rare exceptions tailored for specific campaign stops, other topics have taken precedence over energy: The economy, job creation, and, occasionally, women’s issues are driving the conversation about who will be president in 2013.
“The American public has yet to really make the link between energy and the economy in their own collective mind,” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza wrote in his new book, the Gospel According to the Fix. “Though very few politicians are talking about it, there’s actually good news on the energy front; domestic oil output is the highest it has been since the early 2000s, and the country is producing natural gas like gangbusters.”
Although there is tension between renewable energy and fossil fuel workers in Colorado, avoiding the topic altogether means neglecting a huge sector of the state’s economy and a significant voting demographic.
The middle ground Colorado has found in energy resources is working, and turning a deaf ear to that could hurt the presidential hopefuls in the western swing state.
Obligatory Robert Redford (!) in the @washingtonpost newsroom shot. (Taken with Instagram at Washington Post)
Guess its time to leave the beach. #nofilter (Taken with Instagram)
My last reblog contained an error. Correction here.
CU student journalist Alison Noon did a beautiful job covering the Aurora memorial service yesterday.
President Obama visited Aurora, Colo., on Sunday, just two days after the shooting massacre he called a “tragedy that reminds us of all the ways that we are united as one American family.”
The president offered sympathy and comfort to surviving victims and mourning families Sunday afternoon at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, one of the facilities where victims were sent after the Friday shooting, which left 12 people dead and dozens injured.
“Such violence, such evil is senseless,” Obama said Friday about the shooting. “There are going to be other days for politics; this, I think, is a day for prayer and reflection.”
Bill and Hilary Clinton in May 1999 visited Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colo., one month after the school shooting that happened there on April 20, 1999.
The Clintons’ visit was met with loud cheers of resilience in a quasi-pep rally at Columbine. Obama’s last-minute Sunday visit was one of quiet console and healing for the shaken community that looks toward overcoming Friday’stragedy.
“There are going to be other days for politics,” President Barack Obama said at an event in Florida on Friday, where he was originally scheduled to talk about the American economy.
Obama ordered that American flags be flown at half staff until July 25, a sign of national grievance for the lives lost in a horrific shooting early Friday morning in Aurora, Colorado.
Mitt Romney offered condolences to the victims of the shooting from his campaign stop in Bow, New Hampshire. “Our hearts break with the sadness of this unspeakable tragedy,” he was quoted as saying in the Concord Monitor.
Flags at half-mast in Boulder. #ColoradoStrong #Theatershooting (Taken with Instagram)
