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Stateside: My fellow Americans (Part 4)
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 12:29 am | Rosalea Barker
As a kind of rite of passage (or trial by sore bum, depending how you look at it) I celebrated my becoming a U.S. Citizen by taking a three-day Greyhound Bus trip from DC back to California. This series highlights some of the people I met. Although ... More >>
Stateside: My Fellow Americans (Part 3)
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 4:00 pm | Rosalea Barker
As a kind of rite of passage (or trial by sore bum, depending how you look at it) I celebrated my becoming a U.S. Citizen by taking a three-day Greyhound Bus trip from DC back to California. This series highlights some of the people I met. More >>
Stateside: My Fellow Americans (Part 2)
Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 12:27 am | Rosalea Barker
As a kind of rite of passage (or trial by sore bum, depending how you look at it) I celebrated my becoming a U.S. Citizen by taking a three-day Greyhound Bus trip from DC back to California. This series highlights some of the people I met. More >>
Stateside: My fellow Americans (Part 1)
Monday, 26 March 2007, 3:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
As a kind of rite of passage (or trial by sore bum, depending how you look at it) I celebrated my becoming a U.S. Citizen by taking a three-day Greyhound Bus trip from DC back to California. This series highlights some of the people I met. More >>
Stateside: Rosalea’s Big Day Out In D.C.
Friday, 23 March 2007, 9:18 am | Rosalea Barker
The buildings are all much smaller than they seem to be on the telly. The scale of the West Wing, at least, is really no bigger than that of a family home. The annex that links the White House to the West Wing contains the indoor swimming pool where ... More >>
Audio: PM In Washington D.C. (Day 2 - Part 2)
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 10:54 am | Rosalea Barker
Following her meeting with President George Bush today the NZ Prime Minister visited Arlington ceremony where she found time to call her dad by cellphone and held a brief standup press conference with media to talk about her meeting with the President. More >>
Audio: PM In Washington D.C. (Day 2 - Part 1)
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 10:40 am | Rosalea Barker
Scoop's Stateside columnist Rosalea Barker was in the press party ushered into the Oval Office for today's post bilateral media moment with the leaders of New Zealand and the United States. More >>
Audio/Images: PM In Washington DC (Day 1 - Part 2)
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 1:16 pm | Rosalea Barker
New Zealand Prime Minster Helen Clark's visit to Washington D.C. ended today with a reception and dinner hosted by the US/NZ Council. During the evening she took time to answer media questions about her meeting with House of Representatives Speaker ... More >>
Audio/Images: PM In Washington DC (Day 1 Part 1)
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 10:00 am | Rosalea Barker
New Zealand Prime Minster Helen Clark's visit to Washington D.C. began today with a meeting with Condoleezza Rice at Blair House the official residence for foreign visitors to the White House. This was followed by a luncheon speech to the Asia Society. More >>
Stateside Images: San Francisco Peace March
Monday, 19 March 2007, 8:07 pm | Rosalea Barker
A view of Market St showing about half of the San Francisco anti-war marchers. Police stationed outside a new shopping centre on Market St. & a few images giving a taste of who was there... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Stock Alert!
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:45 pm | Rosalea Barker
Looking for some stock to invest in? May I suggest companies that manufacture flame-retardant socks, on account of how a whole lot of feet are going to be held to the fire now that your dear old correspondent has sworn to uphold the Constitution. More >>
Rosalea Barker: My Bookmarks
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:59 am | Rosalea Barker
With its reporters and editors immediately being invited onto the Sunday talk shows after the website’s launch a few weeks back, www.politico.com is the place to go for political news and comment these days, both national and local. It also invites ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Niles, CA – Part 2
Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:27 am | Rosalea Barker
I skived off last weekend to Niles, California. It’s just a short BART and bus trip from San Francisco, but is another world altogether. The town’s two main claims to fame are the Niles Canyon Railway, which is maintained and run entirely by volunteers, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Niles, CA – Part 1
Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:26 am | Rosalea Barker
I skived off last weekend to Niles, California. It’s just a short BART and bus trip from San Francisco, but is another world altogether. The town’s two main claims to fame are the Niles Canyon Railway, which is maintained and run entirely by volunteers, ... More >>
Scoop Transcript: PMs Howard & Clark Q&A
Friday, 16 February 2007, 10:48 pm | Rosalea Barker
SCOOP: Prime Minister Howard, do you have anything to say to Senator Barack Obama today? Did you discuss Iraq with the NZ Prime Minister, and... AUSTRALIA PM JOHN HOWARD: Do I have anything to say to Senator Obama today? More >>
Stateside: All Anna Nicole, All The Time
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:36 am | Rosalea Barker
While wishing no disrespect to the human being known as Anna Nicole Smith who died last week, I do think that the "media icon" she was turned into has a good shot at being elected President of the United States in 2008. And it makes such good sense! More >>
Rosalea Barker: Animalia
Tuesday, 6 February 2007, 10:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Big news here lately has been the story of a 70-year-old hiker who was about to become mountain lion tucker and was saved by his 65-year-old wife wielding an 8-foot long tree branch and whacking the beastie on the noggin. She didn't want to do that ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Adventure Travel
Monday, 29 January 2007, 2:49 pm | Rosalea Barker
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it doesn't always get the right message across. Last week's little ditty for the Secretary of State would have applied equally to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had she also been National Security ... More >>
Stateside: It's All For You, Condi, All For You
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 5:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
You say you know what terrorism is because of your experience growing up in the South during the time of the Civil Rights movement, so I'd like you to consider if the new type of violence on the home front--where kids who aren't even in gangs are shot ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: A Verandah Light Goes Out
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
The first Saturday in January, I heard a number of words I hadn't heard spoken in a long while: primary school, verandah, dux, soldering iron--pronounced without a silent "l". They came in the speech made by one of his kid brothers at a memorial ... More >>
