March 6, 2009 -
By Tom Jensen On January 1st, 2004 there were8,136 Hispanics registered to vote in North Carolina. Now a little more than five years laterthat number is upto 68,835. That's a more than eightfold increase over that period of time. Still, those 68,835 Hispanic voters represent only a little more than 1% of the
March 6, 2009 -
Yesterday, South Carolina Sen.
March 5, 2009 -
Wednesday President Barack Obama tapped veteran Florida emergency manager Craig Fugate to head the ever-troubled Federal Emergency Management Agency.
March 5, 2009 -
The United States incarcerates one out of every 100 adults.
March 4, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority, already caught in a legal quagmire following December's disastrous spill of a billion gallons of coal ash from its Kingston power plant, is in trouble yet again -- this time for out-of-control credit card spending by its employees.
March 3, 2009 -
By Michael Grabell for ProPublica