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March 1, 2007 - Neighborhoods around New Orleans and elsewhere across Louisiana -- many in predominantly minority communities -- are facing toxic threats from dumpsites that have cropped up or expanded in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

March 1, 2007 - The Commission on No Child Left Behind, established by the Aspen Group and funded by a group of highly regarded education foundations, recently completed a year long study of the NCLB act. The bipartisan Commission is co-chaired by former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson former Georgia Governor Roy E. Barnes.

February 28, 2007 - A groundbreaking analysis by McClatchy Newspapers documents the worsening problem of poverty across America, including the South.

February 28, 2007 - Bill Quigley, a people's lawyer in New Orleans and advisory board member of Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, has an excellent overview this week of the situation in the Gulf Coast, 18 months after Katrina.

February 27, 2007 - The Middle Tennessee State University Survey Group semi-annual statewide poll is widely recognized and frequently quoted by the media, public officials, and political campaigns.

February 27, 2007 - In what some environmentalists are hailing as a big victory in the fight to curb global warming pollution, the board of TXU Corp. this week accepted an offer to sell the Dallas-based energy giant to private investors and cancel plans to build eight of 11 proposed coal-fired power plants across Texas.

February 26, 2007 - Bill Quigley, a "people's lawyer" in New Orleans and advisor to Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, has an excellent power point presentation about the tragedy still unfolding after Katrina. Check it out here.