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Eyes & Ears (E&E) is the Huffington Post’s citizen journalism unit -- a community of writers, researchers, and multimedia journalists committed to generating ground-level reporting and public interest investigations.

Contributors to E&E provide original news coverage utilizing an array of mediums, from text and Twitter to video and photojournalism. They also recommend stories, produce raw data for original reported stories, search through large amounts of data/documents for hidden gems and/or trends, monitor TV and radio shows, and much more.

A key focus of Eyes & Ears has been telling stories that reveal the human impact of the global economic meltdown. But E&E covers a range of issues as diverse as it members -- everything from American politics to wildfires in California and social life in Pakistan.

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At Health Care Meeting, Rep. Boucher Expresses Reservations About Public Option

Posted August 19, 2009 | 17:36:33 (EST)

By Joan Kark

On Tuesday, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) arrived to host a packed town hall meeting on health care. I thought about Boucher's bravery and just how scared I was to be there. There were no scanners or bag checkers--typical for a Boucher meeting, but...

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Prop 8 Upheld By Courts, Gay Rights Advocates Plan Protests

Posted May 26, 2009 | 17:58:27 (EST)

The California Supreme Court upheld the controversial Prop 8 ban on gay marriage today in a 6-1 ruling. Gay rights activists, who had held out hope that the courts would rule that the law contradicted California's constitution, have planned protests across the country to express their outrage.

If you...

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Banks Demolish New Houses

Posted May 13, 2009 | 17:45:14 (EST)

HuffPost recently reported on a Southern California bank that demolished new and unfinished houses that had recently been obtained through foreclosure.

Check out the video below:

According to the website that released this video,...

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