June 29, 2006 -
By way of Interstate4Jamming, here's a nice story about Lakeland, FL based Publix Supermarkets:
June 29, 2006 -
Speaking in support of his anti-flag burning amendment, Orrin Hatch said from the Senate floor yesterday:
June 28, 2006 -
David Sirota has some thoughts on the current debate raging in the U.S. Senate:
June 27, 2006 -
From Tennessee Independent Media: Pending Double-Execution Reveals Inherent Flaws in Tennessee's Death Penalty System by Anna Thompson Nashville: In the past forty-six years, the state of Tennessee has executed only one man. Now, in one day, it plans to execute two. Both Sedley Alley and Paul Dennis Reid are scheduled to die in the early morning of June 28th and both cases reveal critical flaws in Tennessee's broken death penalty system.
June 27, 2006 -
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2006 Kids Count study was released today, and while there are some improvements the findings are not encouraging for the South. The study looks at several indicators of child well-being in every state.
June 27, 2006 -
The one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is fast approaching. Through our Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project, the Institute has been talking with people across the country about the need to use this window opportunity to talk about the people whose lives are still in limbo, and the larger issues that Katrina raised.
June 26, 2006 -
The Senate may have shot down an effort to boost the minimum wage last week, but the movement is still alive in the states. In North Carolina, a bill to increase the state minimum wage by one dollar, House Bill 2174, passed the state House, but the state Senate Commerce Committee has not taken it up yet.