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By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyI am so proud to report that Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence has been named online columnist of the year by the Society of Professional Journalists, which announced the winners of the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on Monday. Jill, who luckily for us left USA Today to join Politics Daily's staff shortly before our launch a year ago, was honored for her "Sharp Eye on Washington, [with] Minimum Snark." The winning entry included five columns: Liberals, Get Patriotic and Ditch the Volvo; Obama and Congress Shouldn't Let Polls Guide Health Reform; Why Americans Love to ...
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By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMidtown Manhattan this week has been turned into an extra-specially intense maze of flashing lights, motorcades and those dudes selling noxious candied peanuts -- the former heralding the advent of the U.N. General Assembly and the latter simply a New York Thing That Will Not Go Away, Ever. This year's festivities will probably best be remembered for Muammar Qaddafi's theatrical hijinks (the tent, the rant, the shredding) and for the triumphant return of the United States to the world forum -- but on the sidelines of these conventions, there's been some significant (and long overdue) attention ...
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By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyAuthor Theodore Roszak's brilliant idea for solving the health care reform problem gave me the biggest "Well, duh" moment I've had in years. "Expand Medicare," he wrote in a lead editorial column in the Los Angeles Times this week. Enroll everyone. ...
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