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September 22, 2006 - With the economy still sluggish and tax-cut pressure starving state budgets, many states have yet to fully emerge from the financial crises that took hold a decade ago. So what's a broke state government to do? According to a report in USA Today, start selling stuff:

September 22, 2006 - Cataloochie Elk (click image for larger view)

September 21, 2006 - The Knoxville News Sentinel has a report today about a local coal mining company that has been cited by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation for mining without a permit or a mitigation plan:

September 21, 2006 - According to Think Progress, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson "instructed staff to award HUD contracts to President Bush's political allies and withhold them from his political opponents." The revelations came to light as a result of a HUD Inspector General investigation into an allegation that Jackson had "canc

September 20, 2006 - I just got a call from an official with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) about our post earlier today on how global warming research is being politicized.

September 20, 2006 - The fate of Georgia's law requiring that citizens have a photo ID to vote -- pushed hard by Gov. Sonny Perdue and the state legislature to go into effect before the fall elections -- suffered its latest setback yesterday, reports the New York Times:

September 20, 2006 - Here's where the global warming "debate" stands right now: On the science of global warming, there is little debate -- just an overwhelming consensus among experts that temperatures are rising, and human activity is a major factor.But the idea that there is a "debate" stays alive, largely because politicians and the media are plied with a steady stream of dubious data -- produced by academics who are funded by energy companies -- which argues that either global warming isn't a problem, or that human activity isn't to blame.