May 26, 2009 -
Although private-sector employees in North Carolina have bargaining rights, state law specifically forbids collective bargaining by North Carolina's 650,000 public employees.
May 26, 2009 -
Seven people were arrested for trespassing Sunday during a nonviolent protest against a Massey Energy subsidiary's plans to blast just 100 feet away from a massive dam holding back billions of gallons of toxic coal waste in the mountains of West Virginia.
May 23, 2009 -
SOUTHERN BASE TOWNS SUFFER BRUNT OF IRAQ LOSSES: A new Institute report for Memorial Day weekend finds that nearly half of U.S.-based troops killed in Iraq had been stationed in the South. (5/22/2009)
May 22, 2009 -
A proposal to mine uranium in south-central Virginia advanced this week when a key state body approved a study of the matter. The targeted site is in Virginia's Pittsylvania County just north of the city of Danville and close to the border with North Carolina's Rockingham and Caswell counties.
May 22, 2009 -
This Memorial Day is going to be especially hard in places like Fort Hood, Texas, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Fort Campbell, Kentucky.Why?
May 22, 2009 -
By Adam Thompson, Progressive States Network
