February 27, 2009 -
It hasn't been a good year so far in terms of preventing regulatory failures at Southern manufacturing plants. The nation is still reeling from a massive salmonella outbreak linked to peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Blakely, Ga., that has sickened sickened some 666 people and may have contributed to nine deaths.
February 27, 2009 -
This week across the Gulf Coast and in many places throughout the South, revelry reigned supreme.
February 26, 2009 -
North Carolina is not a coal mining state, but its electric utilities are still involved in one of the most destructive mining practices used today -- mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off Appalachian peaks to get to the coal and dumping the resulting waste into valleys below.
February 25, 2009 -
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal got his close-up last night, delivering the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union Address, and the reaction can't be encouraging for someone on the GOP's 2012 presidential short-list.
February 25, 2009 -
By Marc H. Morial
February 24, 2009 -
It's been three and a half years since hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and communities across South Louisiana are still struggling to rebuild. Today revelers in the region took a breather to celebrate Mardi Gras.
