August 17, 2006 -
According to this Reuters report, fixes to the New Orleans levee system could actually make matters worse:
August 16, 2006 -
After a judge struck down Georgia's voter ID legislation as the equivalent of a "new poll tax" last year, state Republicans went back to the drawing board to devise a new law that still threatened to disenfranchise thousands of voters.
August 16, 2006 -
One of the Gulf institutions ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was the region's health care system. One year after the storm, the situation remains dire, in large part due to the glacial piece of rebuilding and recovery in the region.
August 15, 2006 -
An accident nearly two weeks ago involving a barge that collided with the main lock at the Wilson Dam on the Tennessee River near Florence Alabama is wreaking havoc with barge traffic on the waterway:
August 14, 2006 -
Of the many issues facing state and local governments, one of the most fundamental is privatization: the transfer of public assets and resources to private interests. It raises some of the most basic questions of why we have government, and who should be in charge of it -- people and their elected representatives, or companies who ultimately answer only to their owners and stockholders.
August 14, 2006 -
There are dozens of events being planned, big and small, for the one-year annivesary of Katrina, coming this August 29.
August 11, 2006 -
Yesterday, the Department of Defense issued a report that identifies a major threat to troop morale -- and it's not cramped quarters, bad food, or escalating foreign entanglements. The culprits are predatory financial institutions that operate outside of military bases.
