Heather Rogers

Heather Rogers was a senior staff reporter at Remapping Debate. She had previously written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and Washington Monthly. Her most recent book (as of 2013) is Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

hr@remappingdebate.org
The relentless push to bleed Legal Services dry
Original Reporting | By Heather Rogers | Law, Role of government
With LSC funding effectively 70 percent lower than it was in 1981, the program is unable to meet critical needs of lower-income families across the country. More
Senator Lugar a moderate? Not by a long shot.
Story Repair | By Heather Rogers | Media, Politics
Major press outlets have fallen all over themselves describing Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) as a “moderate,” with coverage often quite openly mourning last week's primary election loss of someone who could work “across the aisle.” Some Democratic Senators have been fulsome in their praise of Lugar in the wake of that loss. But a review of the record shows that the “moderate” label lacks factual basis: while not the most conservative Republican serving in the Senate, Lugar has been deeply and reliably conservative, often stymieing initiatives by the same Democrats now singing his praises. More

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