Melinda Henneberger’s Posts

• Voters' Voices: Virginia II

  Talking with voters in central Virginia about the environment and the election 0

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election.

  

  Stanardsville, Va. -- A harvest moon is rising over the cornfields on the last night of the Greene County Fair, just hours before the carnival rides are packed up and the local politicos break down the vast GOP tent, where yard signs and balloons are being handed out, and the much smaller Democratic Party tent, where… Read More

• Voters' Voices: Virginia

  Talking with voters in northern Virginia about the environment and the election 2

  Posted 1 year, 2 months ago

  This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election.

  

  Reston Town Center.

  Reston, Va. -- If Virginia were a person, it would look a lot like Rod Markham, a federal contractor, retired from the Army, who's leaning ever so slightly toward Obama but is still of two minds about the presidential race. "There's a part of me that wants so bad to go for Obama," he… Read More

• Voters' Voices: New Hampshire

  Talking with voters in Nashua about the environment and the election 3

  Posted 1 year, 3 months ago

  This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election.

  

  Photo: Kyle P. Johnson

  Nashua, N.H. -- Suziana Moriera does not see soaring gas prices as all bad: "It's still not hurting enough. People complain, but it's got to hurt more" before Americans will start driving appreciably less. It's got to hurt more, she thinks, before her hometown… Read More

• Voters' Voices: Oregon II

  A chat with Portland's Charlie Stephens about petrodollars and oil wars 1

  Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

  This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election.

  One thing I learned traveling around the country a couple of years ago, talking to voters for a political book I was working on, is that Americans tend to give their elected officials a super-size helping of benefit of the doubt.

  One night, I was in Suffolk, Va., having dinner with some active-duty Navy women -- the real "security moms" -- who were in between tours in the Persian Gulf. One… Read More

• Voters' Voices: Oregon

  Talking with voters in Portland about the environment and the election 2

  Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

  

  Photo: David Grant

   

  This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election.

  Portland, Ore. -- Oh, the indignity of tooling around environmentally aware Portland in a big-dog SUV, in between conversations about the environment. Even the guy at the rental-car counter was apologetic: "I know," he said, when I gulped at the news that my economy car had been super-sized.… Read More

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