Politics
November 9, 2011 -
Voters in Wake County, N.C. have shifted power on the local school board back to Democrats who support a student assignment policy that values diversity -- but it wasn't for a lack of spending on the conservative benefactor's part.
November 9, 2011 -
Both Democrats and Republicans can point to victories in key 2011 Southern contests; also, the mixed results in Mississippi ballot initiatives.
November 8, 2011 -
With 2012 looming, Southerners will take to the polls across the region to decide key legislative races, as well as a nationally-watched ballot initiative in Mississippi.
November 4, 2011 -
Christopher Horner, director of litigation for the global-warming denier group the American Tradition Institute, is one of the featured speakers at this weekend's Americans for Prosperity conference in Washington, D.C.
November 3, 2011 -
The Department of Justice has largely taken a hands-off approach to state redistricting plans. But when it comes to photo ID laws and other voting rights issues in the South, the DOJ has emerged as a key player.
November 2, 2011 -
A judge has decided to allow climatologist Michael Mann to intervene in a Freedom of Information Act suit brought against the University of Virginia by the American Tradition Institute, a group with close ties to fossil-fuel interests that works to cast doubt on manmade global warming.
October 31, 2011 -
Dirty-energy interests, wealthy conservatives and the think tanks they fund have joined forces to target global-warming researchers using the Freedom of Information Act -- and this week they're set for a showdown in a Virginia courtroom.
