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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.

March 15, 2007 - If it's springtime, state legislators are in session and tort reform is again a hot topic in states where it hasn't already been passed. Here in Tennessee, a proposed comprehensive "health care liability" bill (HB1993/SB2001) would, among other things:

March 15, 2007 - It's become a familiar theme in the ongoing Hurricane Katrina saga: Businesses with close Bush administration ties get key contracts, only to flub the job they were paid handsomely to do.

March 14, 2007 - For most people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, federal relief aid came in a slow trickle. But not for defense contractor Northrup Grumman: just over two months after the storm, Grumman received over $2.7 billion from the Navy and FEMA to rebuild Naval shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

March 14, 2007 - Mexican and Indian immigrants who allege they were brought to the Gulf Coast and held captive by companies yesterday called on the U.S. Labor Department to investigate possible civil and criminal violations by employers they describe as slaveholders.

March 14, 2007 - Shocking stories of the "shameful" treatment of veteran soldiers are reverberating across the country, but it hits an especially sore nerve in the South. As the Institute has shown in several reports, military bases and production have shifted South, and the region's share of veterans has also dramatically grown.

March 13, 2007 - The deplorable conditions at the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center revealed by the Washington Post's recent investigative reports have resulted in a number of high-profile resignations and firing