Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006
Josh SwartzlanderI was born in Lincoln, Neb., in 1984, the last year the Detroit Tigers won the World Series. Both my parents were newspaper reporters. I was introduced to AP style before middle school.
I am now a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, studying journalism and political science. I have completed internships with the Lincoln Journal Star and the Omaha World-Herald.
I like to golf, read and travel. I like to watch sports. (Go Tigers! Go Huskers!).
I'm excited to be here. The newsiness of this place, the weight of what goes on here, fascinates me. I plan to dive in.
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Health care and the 110th Congress
Submitted on December 15, 2006 - 12:54pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006WASHINGTON - The 110th Congress is expected to make small reforms to the U.S. health care system - but probably not a complete overhaul. Insurance for children, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, drug importation, stem cell research and a host of other health-care discussions face ..
Dec. 2004 tsunami brought hope for peace in war-torn Indonesia, Sri Lanka
Submitted on December 11, 2006 - 2:12pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006Click on photo to enlarge or download: More than a year after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, damaged fishing boats litter Sri Lanka’s west coast south of Colombo. -Photo by Josh SwartzlanderWASHINGTON - Prospects for peace blossomed two years ago in the embattled regions hit hardest by the ..
Renewable energies, conservation may play larger roles in new farm bill
Submitted on November 20, 2006 - 6:47pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006WASHINGTON - The farm talk on Capitol Hill is biofuels, biofuels, biofuels. As Midwestern Democrats suddenly find themselves in key positions to shape the 2007 Farm Bill, they're clamoring for more incentives for farmers and ranchers to develop and produce agriculture-based fuels such as ..
Change is in the air in Washington – maybe
Submitted on November 8, 2006 - 7:15pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006WASHINGTON - One main theme emerged Tuesday as votes were tallied: The American public wants change. Wednesday, they got dramatic change - not from Congress, but from the White House, as President Bush announced the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Wednesday's ..
Gerrymandering creates bumpy road to Congress for Democrats
Submitted on November 2, 2006 - 12:42pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006WASHINGTON - Democrats may be sailing toward the Nov. 7 election with the political wind at their backs, but they're struggling against the current because of a statehouse tool known as "gerrymandering." Recent polls show approval ratings for Congress in the teens and for ..
Who cares?
Submitted on November 2, 2006 - 12:29pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006A Pew Research Center survey conducted in mid-October and released last week found that more than half of Americans know "nothing at all" about the debate over how congressional districts are drawn. The survey, with a sample of 2,006 adults, including 1,552 registered voters, and a margin ..
Red state, blue state – What’s in a name?
Submitted on October 31, 2006 - 3:00pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006TV anchors will point at flashy maps next week as midterm election results roll in, reducing months of campaigning, punditry, scandal and debate into a two-toned metaphor for America's sociopolitical divisions. Which races will go blue and which will go red? Over the last half decade, ..
Color switch
Submitted on October 31, 2006 - 2:56pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006The first political mass-media reference to "blue states" and "red states" appears to be a 1992 Boston Globe column by David Nyhan: "But when the anchormen turn to their electronic tote boards election night and the red states for Clinton start swamping the blue states for ..
N.J. high court ruling threatens to re-ignite gay marriage debate
Submitted on October 25, 2006 - 6:23pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006WASHINGTON - Gay marriage, it appears, isn't the powerful political motivator it was two years ago. A Wednesday decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court, however, threatens to bring the issue back to the forefront. The court ruled 4-3 that gay couples have the same civil rights and ..
Watch out for cars on Halloween
Submitted on October 24, 2006 - 12:12pm. Josh Swartzlander - Fall 2006It's not prowling zombies, werewolves or Frankensteins that should spook parents this Halloween. Rather, cars are the biggest threat to trick-or-treating children, said Nancy Nord, commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. "There are many more injuries on Halloween ..
