July 13, 2005 -
Other issues get media attention, but the big issue this year in the halls of state government has been "medical malpractice reform." Heeding the marching orders of the business lobby, the National Conference on State Legislatures notes that state-level lawmakers have been
July 12, 2005 -
I blogged recently on how the Greyhound bus line is cutting stops to small towns all across the country, including much of the Southeast.
July 12, 2005 -
As Floridians and other Gulf Coast residents recover from the latest Hurricane Dennis (it took a while for some to recover from the last Hurricane Dennis and its brother Floyd), check out this story from Sean Reilly, Southern Exposure
July 12, 2005 -
In case you missed this story from Sparta, Tenn., last week:
July 11, 2005 -
The Texas Senate just cut property taxes by $4.8 billion, a cut similar to a proposal by Gov. Rick Perry and to legislation already passed in the House. According to the Houston Chronicle,
July 8, 2005 -
Today's Guardian (London) has one of the most damning pieces you'll read about the wholesale looting of billions of dollars in Iraq by U.S. occupation authorities and corporate contractors -- the story almost completely ignored by the U.S.
July 8, 2005 -
[A warm "howdy" to resident film critic David Fellerath of the Independent Weekly, who reports on this week's movie news.]