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Voting security | Practical questions for election officials
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The co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project offers important questions that reporters should ask every local election official before the next vote.

Fear of a pandemic | As bird flu spreads, how prepared are we?
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Millions of birds have been killed and almost 100 people have died along avian flight paths in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Here are some questions reporters need to ask.

First in a series | Where’s that broadband fiber-optic access?
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The head of Teletruth, a consumer advocacy group, writes that in spite of huge payments and other financial incentives to the country’s monopolistic telecommunication giants, the United States is 16th in broadband Internet technology and falling. How did things go wrong in your state?

Homegrown terrorism | Do insurgents returning from Iraq pose a security threat to European democracies?
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Counterterrorism expert Karen Greenberg writes that European law enforcers are worried about their own Muslim citizens going to Iraq, getting trained in terror, then coming home. Are they right to be worried? And what are the lessons to be learned from watching Europe wrestle with the problem of homegrown Islamic terrorism?

Mintz on Election 2006 | Senators who play the stock market do very, very well
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A study from the 90s showed that about one-third of U.S. Senators were investors, and as a group they enjoyed an abnormal rate of return. Is it time for an update?

2006 elections | Ask candidates their views on Medicare drug prices
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The Veterans Administration saves taxpayers a great deal by negotiating the prices it pays for prescription medicines, but Medicare, under its prescription drug plan, is barred from negotiating prices. Where’s the logic?

Vote security | Accurate voter lists: still a goal, not a reality
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Expert Roy Saltman on the history and current status of voter registration, including fraud, inaccuracies, laws promoting enfranchisement and what needs to be done.

At issue in 5 states, maybe more | Will 2006 be a repeat of 2004 in gay-marriage ballot items?
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In 2004, voters in 11 states passed bans on same sex marriages and helped re-elect George W. Bush. In November, voters in some states will decide whether to amend their state constitutions to prevent such unions. Reporters may want to focus on what effect that might have on control of the House and Senate and perhaps some governorships.

When intelligence and policy collide | Pillar to press: Don't get fooled again
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Paul R. Pillar, the former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year, writes that the press was insufficiently questioning both in the run-up to war and in its coverage of the 9/11 Commission. He proposes questions reporters should ask -- retrospectively and prospectively -- about the use and abuse of intelligence by policymakers.

Middle class left behind | With all that GOP corruption, why are Democrats so quiet?
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Henry Banta says the quest for money has separated Democrats from their basic constituency, and that helps explain why they are failing to exploit Republican ‘pillaging and looting.’


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