By now, we’re all used to being bombarded with political attack ads around election time. But in 39 states, a growing number of those ads are attacking judicial candidates on their criminal justice records. In many cases those ads are paid for by special interest groups who have economic and political reasons for wanting …
Dewey Hemilright is a commercial fisherman and has been fishing off the North Carolina coast for more than 20 years. With the U.S. government considering opening up the North Carolina coast to offshore drilling and seismic testing for the first time in 30 years, Hemilright worries if that will mean the end to his livelihood, …
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Homeplace Under Fire is the story of American farm advocates and their thirty-year fight to keep family farmers on the land. The Farm Crisis of the 1980s drove hundreds of thousands of family farmers into foreclosure. Out of that crisis came a group of courageous farm advocates, many of them women, who stood up …
We spent the summer learning all about Texas Tort Reform and working with the great people of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress to design a story that would show the human impact of an issue that can sometimes get lost in legalese and political debate. You can read more about the issue …
We spent the day running with these war dogs in training, learning how their trainers teach them to recover IEDs, sniff out car bombs, and assist injured veterans. You can see this video along with the rest of National Geographic’s report on war dogs at National Geographic.
National Geographic is featuring an excerpt of the film we’re editing and producing with director Chad Stevens. The brief excerpt focuses on the personal story of one woman, Lorelei Scarboro, and her fight to save her community by building a wind farm on Coal River Mountain, which Massey Energy is set to destroy through mountaintop …
StoryMine News /// “Overburden” in National Geographic Read More »
The Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for autoimmune encephalitis through collaborative research and advanced clinical care and to ensuring that no family faces this illness alone.
Don Byrne and his family live off the grid in 12×12 cabins on the edge of the woods near Pittsboro, NC, with no electricity or indoor plumbing. And they love it.
