July 9, 2008 -
One of the many downsides to high gas prices is that it unleashes a flurry of conservative punditry claiming that "the market" will solve our energy problems, including catastrophic climate change.
July 8, 2008 -
We recently reported on a lawsuit charging three Virginia companies with involvement in torturing detainees in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
July 8, 2008 -
Coca-Cola has agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit charging officials at the Atlanta-based company with misrepresenting or omitting information from public statements, causing artificial inflation of stock prices. The plaintiffs in the class-action suit were led by two union pension funds: the Carpenters Health & Welfare Fund of Philadelphia, which held about $80 million in company stock at the time of the filing, and and Local 144 Nursing Home Pension Fund, now called 1199 SEIU Greater New York Pension Fund.
July 8, 2008 -
The Times Picayune reported that of the flooded areas in Louisiana's St. Bernard and Orleans parishes, 62 percent of homes have been rebuilt or are under renovation, according to data from a University of New Orleans study released this week.
July 8, 2008 -
Tennessee is seeing a surge in ex-offenders seeking a restoration of their voting rights. Tennessee's WBIR reported this year the state could double the number of felons who may see their voting rights restored.
July 7, 2008 -
This Wednesday, July 9, staff with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting in Atlanta with officials from the Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels Plant in Columbia, S.C. to discuss nuclear materials that went missing back in February. The meeting will be open to the public for observation.
July 7, 2008 -
States across the South are working to promote the use of plant-based fuel as an alternative to imported petroleum, but the biofuels movement is not without its down side.