November 22, 2011 - As we get ready for the Thanksgiving holidays, we give thanks to you, our readers, and look back at a few of Facing South's biggest stories this fall.

November 21, 2011 - Several North Carolina legislators are in Pennsylvania today for a fact-finding mission about the controversial natural-gas drilling method known as fracking -- and their tour guide is Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation's largest fracking companies.

November 18, 2011 - Veterans of civil rights, labor and other movements calling themselves the Council of Elders talk about why they support the Occupy Wall Street movement and its meaning for broader change.

November 18, 2011 - Following a July vote to unionize, workers at the Ikea-owned Swedwood plant in Danville, Va. are struggling for their rights against union-hostile supervisors.

November 17, 2011 - Politicians have been repeating the mantra that "regulations kill jobs" -- but the numbers show that environmental regulations actually create jobs.

November 17, 2011 - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to stick the region's ratepayers with the bill for reactor design changes necessitated by the Japanese disaster -- but a coalition of nuclear watchdogs is trying to prevent that from happening.

November 17, 2011 - In the ongoing wars over immigration and redistricting, Louisiana filed a lawsuit this week which challenges the very idea of counting undocumented residents as "persons" in drawing up Congressional maps.

November 16, 2011 - The Obama administration continues to deport Haitians despite knowing many will be illegally jailed and risk cholera exposure upon arrival.

November 15, 2011 - A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how power generation is impacting watersheds and makes the case for wiser planning.

November 15, 2011 - The conservative advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers and Art Pope is launching a tour in battleground Florida featuring a Tea Party leader notorious for exaggerated claims about voter fraud.