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April 4, 2006 - An Arkansas state Senate committee approved a minimum-wage increase and passed it over to the House:

April 4, 2006 - Tom DeLay is resigning from the U.S. House of Representatives. Wonder if it has anything to do with this?

April 4, 2006 - The latest litany of failures:

April 4, 2006 - We haven't weighed in on the Duke University lacrosse team scandal, not out of lack of interest, but because I was out of town last week when the charges exploded on the national scene. After sifting through dozens of news accounts, blog entries, and conversations with friends about the case, I received this interesting announcement from the Durham police department this evening:

April 3, 2006 - The Wilmington Star has a nice overview of Bob Hall, a long-time staffer at the Institute for Southern Studies, and his pioneering work on campaign finance reform -- which may well depose N.C.'s Democratic House Speaker Jim Black:

April 3, 2006 - In the fight to top the latest Fortune 500 list, it's Big Oil from Irving, TX vs. Big Plastic from Bentonville, AR. Here's who wins:

April 3, 2006 - Our post-Katrina investigative project, Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, is featured this week on Mother Jones Radio.