Politics
January 12, 2009 -
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether Congress went too far in extending the life of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights le
January 9, 2009 -
The spill of over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge in Eastern Tennessee before Christmas was not only one of the biggest environmental disasters in history -- it also exposed the myth of "clean coal."
January 9, 2009 -
Many U.S. troops serving overseas are effectively excluded from voting because they are not given enough time to cast absentee ballots, according to a study released this week by the Pew Center on the States.
January 8, 2009 -
From a January 6 letter to The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina (one of those Southern states with a big foreign automaker): Don't blame workers for bosses' mistakes
January 8, 2009 -
The St. Petersburg Times blog The Buzz reports that Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (D) is reviving his long-time crusade to abolish the Electoral College, which was fanned to a high flame after Al Gore's loss in 2000: As the Congress was ratifying the results of the Electoral College today, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., was filing legislation to abolish it.