May 25, 2007 -
Louisiana's largest state-led recovery initiative for hurricane victims -- the Road Home housing assistance program -- faces an estimated $3 billion shortfall, and federal officials yesterday told a Senate subcommittee that they have no plans to bail it out.
May 25, 2007 -
We reported earlier this week that TVA's Browns Ferry Unit 1 nuclear power reactor was restarted after being down more than twenty years.
May 24, 2007 -
With federal scientists this week announcing that they expect this year's hurricane season to be unusually intense, many Americans are wondering whether New Orleans -- one of the places that bore the brunt of Hurricane Katr
May 24, 2007 -
Last week, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the "Rosa Parks Act", which "expunges public records of persons charged with a misdemeanor or felony while challenging a law designed to maintain racial segregation or discrimination."
May 24, 2007 -
As the North Carolina legislature scurries to meet its "cross-over" deadline today, a slew of new legislation is being passed in haste -- with often confusing results.
May 24, 2007 -
Catastrophic events act merely as wake up calls, opportunities to seriously step up and do something that is going to make a difference. The smallest act of resistance and each gesture towards the alleviation of the suffering of others, whether on the Gulf Coast or elsewhere, is a step toward our own emancipation.
May 23, 2007 -
Help could be on its way to hurricane-stricken areas of Louisiana and Mississippi thanks to legislation passed yesterday by the U.S.
