September 12, 2008 -
As Facing South reported earlier this week, deportation concerns rank high amongst immigrants evacuating this latest round of Gulf Coast hurricanes.
September 12, 2008 -
Florida has found the 3,500 missing ballots. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
September 12, 2008 -
Hurricane Ike is pushing its way into Texas today and tomorrow, and already hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated to further inland locations. The National Weather Service issued a warning to people living in small houses on Galveston Island that they faced "certain death" from flooding if they remained in their homes.
September 12, 2008 -
Communities across coastal Louisiana are facing serious environmental contamination in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, according to an assessment released this week by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network.
September 12, 2008 -
Updates continually added ... keep sending them in! Travel across any area that's about to get hit by, or has already suffered a blow from, a hurricane, and you'll find signs of an under-appreciated literary genre: Storm Poetry.
September 12, 2008 -
Philip Mattera Guest blogger The phrase repeatedly chanted at the recent Republican convention - "Drill, Baby, Drill" - now sounds pornographic in the wake of the new sex and money scandal involving oil drilling companies and the federal agency that is supposed to oversee them.
September 12, 2008 -
The 2008 elections are about more than the White House and Congress. With 13 states nationally facing new critical budget shortfalls -- including four in the South -- the battle for state legislatures will be intense this November.
