David Rosenfeld

David Rosenfeld is the digital editor at The Beach Reporter and a reporter at Daily Breeze covering SpaceX and Hawthorne, El Segundo, and Northrop, California.
Righting the Voting Income Gap
The “motor voter” law, an almost decade-old federal effort to encourage voter registration among Americans receiving public assistance, is bearing fruit.
Eyewitness IDs Can Be Made Better
It's business as usual for many police agencies, even after bungled eyewitness procedures led to high-profile exonerations.
Wind Farm Opposition - Noise Complaints
The health effects from wind turbine noise tell us interesting things about the way we hear things.
Stunting Stents
The quicker, easier solution isn't always the wisest choice when it comes to many things in life, including heart disease.
Can Mining Provide a Renewable Energy Future?
Developers are looking into mining waste heaps as a home for solar panels and windmills.
Voting Technology Research Gets In-Depth
As election systems technology in America is getting more advanced, is the real world catching up to the laboratory?
Study Finds Racial Pay Disparities Among Nurses
Researchers use statistical regression analysis to spot discrimination in an unexpected profession.
Is American Medicine Too Stent Happy?
For heart attack patients, a stent is the medical device that provides the best chance of recovery. But studies comparing the use of stents to medical therapy alone have sparked controversy.
How Many Gitmo Alumni Are Actually Back in the Fight?
Researchers at Seton Hall and New America Foundation track the Pentagon's claims that released Guantanamo detainees 'returned to battle.'
Both Sides Exaggerate Effects of Public Option
The fight over a public option means nil to the majority of Americans — who won't have the option to buy it anyway.
Shadow Market Delays Recovery, Helps Defiant Homeowners
In a follow-up to a story we published in March, our featured homeowner still lives defiantly without payments or eviction for more than a year.
Obama Plan to Cap Health Insurance Overhead Flawed
Health insurance watchdogs in Oregon say the way regulators and the industry have analyzed administrative costs for decades are wrong. Will Obama and Congress listen?
Health Care Charges Under the Knife
As health care reform swirls around who pays and not what they pay, health insurers point fingers at medical providers for charging exorbitant prices that few know are negotiable.
Jackson Case Highlights Medical Ethics
Two prominent doctors in the field of pain management reflect on the malign influence of celebrity.
Physician, Heel Thyself
As it attempts to balance controlling costs and providing health care while not stepping on entrepreneurship, will Congress take on self-referring doctors?
Touring the Nation's Most Contaminated Land
The Department of Energy plans to take up to 3,500 people this year through the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Iran 2009, Meet Ohio 2004
Statistical progression suggests the Ahmadinejad landslide was unlikely, although his win was predictable. In other words, while the election may have been rigged, it wasn't stolen.
What's With the Media's Twitter and Facebook Obsession?
The media may seem obsessed with Twitter because the people who are the media are obsessed with Twitter.
Hospitals Save Money with Homeless Outreach
Two studies, one in Chicago and the other in Seattle, prove we can save health care dollars by housing and helping the homeless.
What Would Horatio Alger Do?
Thousands of Americans are defying eviction notices and exercising civil disobedience.
Doctors Fight Back Against Denial by Algorithm
Facing a technological arms race over billing, doctors score a win over insurers but are nowhere close to even par.
Green Recovery: Welcome to SolarWorld
In a nondescript industrial park near Portland, Ore., lies a solar gem that just might save the American Dream.
Big Margins Sidetrack Election Reform
Five ways to safeguard voting rights and how close Senate races could save the election reform movement.
Citizen Exit Poll Driven by Distrust
As Election Day approaches, citizen activists are gearing up to conduct their very own exit poll.
Vote-Fraud Fears Fall Before Disenfranchisement Fear
Republicans in at least 10 swing states have cited problems with new voter registrations — including some clearly spurious applications submitted across the nation — creating the possibility of widespread voter fraud.
It May Be Harder to Vote in Swing States
With fewer than two weeks before Election Day, lawyers for both parties are in the courtroom sparring over voting rights.
The Dirty Details of Voter Purges
Secretive, error-riddled methods for cleaning up the voter rolls and how the Help America Vote Act isn't helping.
Misleading Mailers Descend on Swing States
Short on detail or just plain wrong, mailings with GOP return addresses are sowing confusion on voting status with fewer than two months before the big day.
Ohio Voter Caging in Play Despite Directive
A change in the law may be needed to protect Ohioans from voter caging.
Update: Ohio Removes Vote Caging Possibility
Ohio directive issued Friday says 60-day notice can't be used to challenge voters.
America Wants YOU to be a Poll Worker
Research shows how poll workers on the front lines of elections affect voter confidence.
E-Vote Vendor Admits Decade of Flaws
A leading voting machine maker says software used in 34 states has been losing votes.
Report: Vendor Control Undermines Elections
Nonprofit group claims vote-counting machine vendors are the ones in control during some elections.
Voting Rules Create Land of Disenchantment
Advocacy groups are battling New Mexico's strict voter registration laws as election looms.
Buying the Farm
With health insurance costs these days, why not just buy the whole clinic?
What Barriers Stand in Your Way to the Polls?
The methods are far less conspicuous than fire hoses and more legally ambiguous than poll taxes and literacy tests.
Faulty Machines Ready to Count Your Vote
Based on scientific research, we have a clearer picture of just how vulnerable our American voting system really is.
A Prognosis on Mandates and Guarantees
"Experiments" in eight states provide pointers on how America might provide guaranteed health insurance.
Software Helps Insurers Profit from Denials
New York's attorney general investigates possible fraud in an industry built on denying care, and two U.S. representatives want Medicare to have no part in it.