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January 13, 2009 - The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has issued an enforcement order against the Tennessee Valley Authority for last month's massive coal ash spill from its Kingston power plant in Roane County.

January 9, 2009 - The spill of over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge in Eastern Tennessee before Christmas was not only one of the biggest environmental disasters in history -- it also exposed the myth of "clean coal."

January 8, 2009 - United Mountain Defense, an environmental group working with the residents of Harriman, Tenn. impacted by the recent coal ash disaster, has arranged to provide interested folks with testing for heavy metal exposure -- but money is proving to be a problem.

December 4, 2008 - Civil rights lawyers are asking a three-judge federal panel to revive a lawsuit challenging Georgia's voter ID law. Attorney Emmet Bondurant asked the panel of the 11th U.S.

December 2, 2008 - Georgia voters must be feeling deja vu. Not only are they voting again in the much-anticipated runoff election between Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) and challenger Jim Martin (D). They're also seeing the same campaign themes they heard last time Chambliss ran for office in 2002.

December 1, 2008 - President-elect Barack Obama has drawn considerable heat from critics on his political left like David Sirota for choices about who will lead his new administration. In contrast to his message of change, they argue, Obama's Cabinet and other staff picks have had a decidedly centrist and establishment cast, from keeping Robert Gates at the Department of Defense to installing Timothy Geithner at the Treasury Department.

November 6, 2008 - This election may have been about change, but one thing that didn't change is the fact that in politics money still matters.