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February 21, 2007 - As R. Neal reported yesterday, the South's influence on the presidential primaries is poised to grow -- and setting the tone will be South Carolina.

February 20, 2007 - It's Mardi Gras time in New Orleans and around the South. On the second Fat Tuesday since Katrina, the folks in New Orleans can forget their worries for a day and celebrate life. This New Orleans Times Picayune editorial says it best:

February 20, 2007 - If the 2008 presidential primaries play out as they are currently shaping up, there could be a lot more attention paid to Southern states and it could come a lot earlier in the process.

February 19, 2007 - For Iraqis, there's probably no better symbol of what's wrong with the U.S. mission in Iraq than the Green Zone -- the fortified and insulated "Little America" that U.S. forces created in the aftermath of the invasion.

February 15, 2007 - Remember FDR's rural electrification? It transformed the South, or at least the Appalachian Tennessee Valley for every future generation.

February 15, 2007 - A coalition of environmentally concerned investors is targeting 10 companies that it's identified as lagging behind industry peers in responding to climate change -- and half of them are South-based energy giants.

February 14, 2007 - Former CIA contractor David Passaro was sentenced yesterday in a North Carolina courtroom to eight years in prison for the torture of an Afghan detainee who later died. He was the first U.S. citizen charged and convicted of detainee abuse during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and the first charged under the USA Patriot Act, which extended U.S. prosecutors' reach to foreign soil.