March 20, 2007 -
Today marks four years since the U.S. began bombing Iraq in this latest war. While there's been a great deal of discussion in the U.S.
March 19, 2007 -
One of the issues the Institute investigated the report we released last week on the impact of war in North Carolina -- "America's most military-friendly state" -- is the lengths the armed forces will go to recruit new soldiers.
March 19, 2007 -
Speaking last week to a gathering of newspaper publishers, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin once again played the race card in the ongoing hustle that is the Gulf Coast rebuilding, suggesting that the bungled recovery is part of a plan by unnamed conspirators to revamp the racial composition and political leadership of his and other cities, the
March 16, 2007 -
Facing South readers know that the South has deep military ties, and no state feels it more than North Carolina. Billboards everywhere declare the state is "the most military-friendly state in America," part of a state PR campaign to expand bases and lure more defense dollars to the state.
March 15, 2007 -
If it's springtime, state legislators are in session and tort reform is again a hot topic in states where it hasn't already been passed. Here in Tennessee, a proposed comprehensive "health care liability" bill (HB1993/SB2001) would, among other things:
March 15, 2007 -
It's become a familiar theme in the ongoing Hurricane Katrina saga: Businesses with close Bush administration ties get key contracts, only to flub the job they were paid handsomely to do.
March 14, 2007 -
For most people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, federal relief aid came in a slow trickle. But not for defense contractor Northrup Grumman: just over two months after the storm, Grumman received over $2.7 billion from the Navy and FEMA to rebuild Naval shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi.