Health and Public Safety
September 24, 2008 -
The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Disaster Recovery held a hearing yesterday featuring testimony from Texas and Louisiana leaders about the impact hurricanes Gustav and Ike had on their states.
September 16, 2008 -
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the humanitarian relief effort in the Texas Gulf Coast has kicked into gear, but there have been some noted problems:
September 16, 2008 -
As the result of coverage by Facing South and a few other media outlets about the decision to not evacuate over 1,000 inmates and staff of the Galveston County jail for Hurricane Ike
September 11, 2008 -
Ongoing labor woes at Progress Energy's Shearon Harris plant illustrate security problems still afflicting potential terror targets in the post-9/11 world
September 11, 2008 -
Politico is holding an interesting round-table discussion on why the media can't seem to stop itself from dwelling on non-issues -- like the recent faux controversy over Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment -- instead o
August 20, 2008 -
Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group that works to cast doubt on the scientific consensus around the reality and seriousness of manmade global warming, was scheduled to hold a town hall meeting today in Fort Myers, Fla.
August 19, 2008 -
Rates of obesity continued to rise across the country during the past year, according to a report released Tuesday by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.