Politics
July 3, 2008 -
North Carolina is one of the last Southern states to still support the federal ban on new offshore oil drilling, but lifting that ban has now become an issue in the governor's race.
July 2, 2008 -
Spurred by competitive primaries and hopes that their states might be in play come November, voters are registering in record numbers in Georgia and North Carolina.
June 25, 2008 -
There's a long-standing debate in Democratic Party circles about how to win over "swing states."
June 23, 2008 -
Not surprisingly, the same outfits that have helped corporate greenhouse gas polluters spread disinformation about the science of climate change are none too pleased with NASA scientist Jim Hansen's call to try fossil fuel CEOs for crimes against humanity.
June 19, 2008 -
President Bush echoed the call of Republican presidential candidate John McCain this week in calling for an end to the 27-year-old federal ban on offshore oil drilling along the East and West coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
June 10, 2008 -
The notion that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy will suddenly throw the entire South into contested territory may be far-fetched.
June 6, 2008 -
The Daily Yonder, blog of the Center for Rural Strategies, has an interesting post about how Sen. Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination. In short: The urban South is what gave Obama his national primary victory.