October 3, 2008 -
Voter registrations are surging throughout the South as states approach their cut-off dates (for a complete list of voter registration dates in the South, see our previous post here).
October 3, 2008 -
The following Institute Index appeared in the latest Facing South email newsletter. If you don't receive Facing South via email already, sign up in the box in the upper right hand corner. It's free, and a great way to stay in touch with news, politics and trends in the South! INSTITUTE INDEX: Disenfranchisement by Design
October 3, 2008 -
The nation's energy woes are worsening, with carbon piling up in the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, fuel prices soaring, and residents of some Southeast cities
October 2, 2008 -
North Carolina's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Kay Hagan, is a robo-call
October 2, 2008 -
Blacksville #2 mine in Monongalia County, West Virginia shut down today after every union miner stayed home to protest Consol Energy mine owners who allowed the National Rifle Association to enter the worksite to shoot an anti-Obama video.
October 2, 2008 -
In Yiddish, a schlep is a hard journey -- and the hard journey organizers of The Great Schlep want young Jews to make is visit their grandparents living in the electoral battl
October 2, 2008 -
The Brennan Center has released an important new report on the issue voter purging [pdf]. Election officials regularly remove -- or "purge" -- voters' names from the rolls as they update and improve their lists. Between 2004 and 2006, 39 states and D.C.