February 10, 2009 -
The federal trial for Jackson, Miss. Mayor Frank Melton began Monday. Melton is accused of violating federal civil rights laws during crime-fighting sweeps with the city's mobile police unit.
February 9, 2009 -
Where does your governor stand on the stimulus bill being fought out in Congress?
February 9, 2009 -
More than three years after Hurricane Katrina, billions of dollars that could go to rebuilding the Gulf region remain bottled up by bureaucratic red tape, Louisiana lawmakers say.
February 9, 2009 -
A new report released this week by the Black AIDS Institute outlines the promise and the challenge of the current moment in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the black community.
February 6, 2009 -
Not all of the coal ash produced by power plants ends up in surface impoundments like the one that collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee. Some of it ends up being mixed with sewage sludge and other waste and spread on food crops -- especially in the South.
February 6, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera As the federal government prepares to spend billions of dollarspromoting the creation of green jobs as part of the huge economyrecovery bill, a new report warns that the jobs already being createdin climate-friendly sectors of the economy do not always measure up interms of wages and other terms of employment. The report, entitled High Road or Low Road: Job Quality in the New Green Economy,was produced by Good Jobs First (yours truly was the principal author).
