May 17, 2006 -
Energy and contracting giant Halliburton is having its annual shareholders meeting today. It appears that moving the meeting from Texas to the town of Duncan, Oklahoma isn't helping them avoid the protests that engulf their gatherings each year:
May 17, 2006 -
Since Monday, Atlanta Progressive News has been drawing attention to this exchange they had with erstwhile presidential candidate Al Gore:
May 16, 2006 -
The New Orleans Times Picayune has this interactive graphic timeline of the flooding (Flash required). It's eerie to watch.
May 16, 2006 -
Here's a great Austin Chronicle profile and interview with Cyril Neville, now living in Austin after being forced out of New Orleans by Katrina.
May 16, 2006 -
The Voting Rights Act extension sailed through the U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee 33-1 last week and was on its way to the floor for a vote.
May 15, 2006 -
Sunday's Raleigh News & Observer features an essay about a new political demographic that supposedly will be decisive in 2006:
May 15, 2006 -
As readers may know, we've been closely following Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., a lawsuit filed by taxpayers in Ohio that would banned many of the huge tax breaks given to corporations in the name of "economic development."Today, the Supreme Court made its decision -- in favor of the corporations, saying taxpayers have no right to sue about the use of taxpayer money: Taxpayers have no right to challenge nearly $300 million in tax breaks that Ohio's elected officials used to entice DaimlerChrysler Corp. to build a new plant in Toledo, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.