March 21, 2007 -
Some big news today from Louisiana on post-Katrina reconstruction:
March 21, 2007 -
Imagine being one of only three African-American children in a class of 26 eighth graders in a rural North Carolina school.
March 21, 2007 -
In April 1953, the famous "red state" Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower made this famous statement about the trade-offs between war spending and human needs:
March 20, 2007 -
Today marks four years since the U.S. began bombing Iraq in this latest war. While there's been a great deal of discussion in the U.S.
March 19, 2007 -
One of the issues the Institute investigated the report we released last week on the impact of war in North Carolina -- "America's most military-friendly state" -- is the lengths the armed forces will go to recruit new soldiers.
March 19, 2007 -
Speaking last week to a gathering of newspaper publishers, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin once again played the race card in the ongoing hustle that is the Gulf Coast rebuilding, suggesting that the bungled recovery is part of a plan by unnamed conspirators to revamp the racial composition and political leadership of his and other cities, the
March 16, 2007 -
Facing South readers know that the South has deep military ties, and no state feels it more than North Carolina. Billboards everywhere declare the state is "the most military-friendly state in America," part of a state PR campaign to expand bases and lure more defense dollars to the state.