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August 15, 2006 - An accident nearly two weeks ago involving a barge that collided with the main lock at the Wilson Dam on the Tennessee River near Florence Alabama is wreaking havoc with barge traffic on the waterway:

August 14, 2006 - Of the many issues facing state and local governments, one of the most fundamental is privatization: the transfer of public assets and resources to private interests. It raises some of the most basic questions of why we have government, and who should be in charge of it -- people and their elected representatives, or companies who ultimately answer only to their owners and stockholders.

August 14, 2006 - There are dozens of events being planned, big and small, for the one-year annivesary of Katrina, coming this August 29.

August 11, 2006 - Yesterday, the Department of Defense issued a report that identifies a major threat to troop morale -- and it's not cramped quarters, bad food, or escalating foreign entanglements. The culprits are predatory financial institutions that operate outside of military bases.

August 10, 2006 - [This post continues the Institute's ongoing coverage of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 29.]

August 10, 2006 - 85% of all executions take place in the U.S. South. This fact makes it all the more significant that, last week, North Carolina took a pioneering move to establish a commission that could exonerate those wrongly convicted of capital crimes. As the Christian Science Monitor reports:

August 10, 2006 - You may recall the heroic efforts of Times-Picayune reporters and photographers who stayed behind to cover the Katrina aftermath. Here's an excerpt from that story: