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May 30, 2007 - State and local governments in storm-stricken areas of the Gulf Coast will no longer have to put up their own money in order to get federal rebuilding funds, thanks to the emergency war spending bill approved by Congress last week and signed into law by President Bush.

May 30, 2007 - The Government Accountability Office has released a report into concerns that cronyism tainted a deal that led to more than 30 problematic flood-control pumps being installed in New Orleans.

May 30, 2007 - National pundits may be writing off the South in 2008, but don't tell Southern states that. In a bid to shake off being treated as the neglected stray dogs of presidential politics, state leaders are battling to put the South back on the electoral map.

May 29, 2007 - The Senate is set to resume debate this week on a new "compromise" immigration bill (S.1348). This is a complicated bill and it's hard to find objective info.

May 25, 2007 - Since Katrina, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has received heaps of praise for his political savvy -- and ability to use his GOP connections to get a lion's share of federal relief funds for his state.

May 25, 2007 - Louisiana's largest state-led recovery initiative for hurricane victims -- the Road Home housing assistance program -- faces an estimated $3 billion shortfall, and federal officials yesterday told a Senate subcommittee that they have no plans to bail it out.

May 25, 2007 - We reported earlier this week that TVA's Browns Ferry Unit 1 nuclear power reactor was restarted after being down more than twenty years.