July 5, 2005 -
Facing South and Southern Exposure contributor Sean Reilly has an excellent piece in the Mobile Register about how Republicans are more and more disregarding their own rhetoric about states' rights.
July 5, 2005 -
As you probably heard, Richard Scrushy was last week found not guilty of criminal charges in the billion-dollar HealthSouth accounting fraud scandal. Scrushy, feeling vindicated, has said he would like to work again at the company he founded.
July 5, 2005 -
A big congrats to Al McSurely, local civil rights lawyer and long-time friend of the Institute for Southern Studies, for recently winning the national NAACP's William Robert Ming Advocacy Awar
July 5, 2005 -
Another material girl turns to mysticism: Katherine Harris joins Madonna as a Kabbalah enthusiast.
July 1, 2005 -
[Like movies? So does our resident film critic, David Fellerath.]
July 1, 2005 -
For your holiday reading pleasure, here are two of Facing South's favorite pieces for Independence Day:
July 1, 2005 -
Quick activist alert: 12 Tennessee citizens are in the 11th day of a sit-in at Gov. Bredesen's (D) office in Nashville. They have been joined by 50 or more demonstrators outside, protesting Bredesen's proposed deep cuts in the TennCare health system -- almost a third of a million people kicked off the rolls.