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June 14, 2007 - The nuclear industry likes to promote itself as a clean energy source -- a message that's a key theme in its current public-relations offensive promoting its product as the environmentally benign alternative to dirty coal-fir

June 14, 2007 - We reported recently about the controversy over President Bush's nomination of Mississippi judge Leslie Southwick to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

June 14, 2007 - Oh, wait. Wrong generation. This generation is more likely to be wearing ear buds for their iPods and toting a Blackberry or a text messaging cellphone to Bonnaroo, the South's premier music and arts festival that kicks off tonight in Manchester, Tennessee.

June 13, 2007 - We reported last week on the unsealing of a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Louisiana by former insurance adjusters alleging that eight insurance companies defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage cause

June 13, 2007 - In a recent debate on North Carolina Public Radio, N.C. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) insisted that there are "no downsides" to her plan of expanding military bases and defense industries in the state. I disagreed, citing the Institute's recent report North Carolina at War, which documents the social, economic and other costs of being "the most military-friendly state in the nation."

June 13, 2007 - Legislatures across the South and country are wrapping up their 2007 sessions. Lots of hot-button issues were in play this, like immigration, health care, civil unions and living wages. But as the dust settles, what actually went down?

June 12, 2007 - Last week we discussed the Florida Public Service Commission's decision to deny a permit for a proposed coal-fired power plant near the Everglades, and how Florida Power and Light now proposes a