By THOMAS HARGROVE, Scripps Howard News Service
Scripps poll finds lack of civility, anger at government
Most Americans believe people have become less civil and polite when they talk about the federal government and its policies.
Fifty-seven percent of adults in a Scripps Howard survey answered "yes" to the question: "Does it seem to you that people, in general, have become less civil and less polite when they talk about the federal government?"
Survey results among different groups
A survey of 946 adult residents of the United States asked: "Do you personally know someone who has died for whom you think or at least suspect that the official cause of death was wrong?" Slightly more than a quarter said yes. Here are the results among different groups.
Entire nation .................. 26 percent
Men ............................ 21
Death poll findings, by questions
The following are selected findings from a survey of 946 adult residents of the United States interviewed by telephone Feb. 16 through March 11, 2009 by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. Scripps Howard News Service designed the survey under a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation.
Deaths by heart disease by state
How many deaths were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2005 and 2006, how many of these deaths were blamed on non-hypertensive heart disease and the rate at which coronary disease is blamed for all deaths.
State ............ Deaths ..... Heart .... Rate
Alabama .......... 94,067 .... 24,511 ... 26.1
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Sunshine Poll: Americans support open government
Americans overwhelmingly support President Obama's order that federal agencies must show a "presumption in favor of disclosure" when asked to open government records to the public, an order issued during his first full day in office.
Sunshine Poll: Americans support open government
Americans overwhelmingly support President Obama's order that federal agencies must show a "presumption in favor of disclosure" when asked to open government records to the public, an order issued during his first full day in office.
Selected findings from Sunshine Poll
The following are selected findings from a survey of 946 adult residents of the United States interviewed by telephone Feb. 16-March 11 by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. Scripps Howard News Service designed the survey under a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation.
A fight over confidentiality of concealed-handgun permits
Lawmakers in seven states are pushing to give confidentiality to people who have obtained permits to carry concealed handguns in a dispute that pits gun-rights advocates against several newspapers and open-government groups.
Obama inauguration eclipses memories of bad old days
Isaac Lowe remembers how it was for people of color back in the bad old days.
"I grew up in Texas in a town called Wharton," Lowe, 87, recalled while sitting in her wheelchair on the Washington Mall in freezing temperatures Tuesday morning as she waited patiently for Barack Obama to be sworn in as America's first black president.
