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April 27, 2009 - Environmental advocates expect a big turnout from the oil industry and its boosters in the "drill, baby, drill" crowd, so they're encouraging drilling opponents to attend the hearing and speak for two to five minutes on why they don't support opening up the state's coast to oil and gas operations.

April 20, 2009 - Today marks an important moment in the intensifying political battle ov

February 27, 2009 - It hasn't been a good year so far in terms of preventing regulatory failures at Southern manufacturing plants. The nation is still reeling from a massive salmonella outbreak linked to peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Blakely, Ga., that has sickened sickened some 666 people and may have contributed to nine deaths.

February 26, 2009 - North Carolina is not a coal mining state, but its electric utilities are still involved in one of the most destructive mining practices used today -- mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off Appalachian peaks to get to the coal and dumping the resulting waste into valleys below.

September 30, 2008 - At Facing South, we've provided you with extensive coverage of how the elections are playing out in three key battleground states: Florida, North Carolina and V

May 19, 2008 - This year was the first "big election" test of North Carolina's new same-day registration and voting law, and results show it was a huge success.

March 7, 2008 - Today's job report coming out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has some grim news: for the first time in eight five years*, the country has seen two straight months of job losses. The net job loss for February was 22,000.