Stories by Melinda Welsh

Home Sweet Homeland

Posted on Jul 2, 2004, Source: Sacramento News & Review

'Homeland' attempts to chart the trends in a restless, deeply divided America, and finds a new nationalism taking hold across the country.

Travels in a Complicated Cuba

Posted on Dec 11, 2003, Source: Sacramento News & Review

A reporter takes one last look at the complicated and enchanting island of socialism before the newly strengthened U.S. travel ban takes effect.

We're Melting ...

Posted on Oct 15, 2003, Source: Sacramento News & Review

If you still don't believe that global warming is a reality, go visit a glacier and listen to it drip, drip, drip.

Kucinich Reloaded

Posted on Jun 9, 2003, Source: Sacramento News & Review

The former boy mayor of Cleveland hasn't changed. But he’s hoping the country might.

Witness to War

Posted on May 16, 2003, Source: Sacramento News & Review

Vietnam War hero and peace advocate Charlie Liteky returned from Baghdad with an unembedded view of what the war was like.

The Junk-Food Wars

Posted on Nov 21, 2002, Source: Sacramento News & Review

As parents and public-health advocates prepare to struggle against junk food and the childhood obesity it helps fuel, one school district is providing a healthy choice.

Prisoner of Conscience

Posted on Jun 19, 2001, Source: Sacramento News & Review

Charlie Liteky has made the strange sojourn from priest to war hero to human rights activist. He is a man who will do anything, including risk his life, for what he perceives to be a just cause.