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June 28, 2012 -
A new report grades states on how effectively they address educational disparities caused by concentrated poverty. It finds that a number of states in the South are not funding public schools adequately or distributing those funds where most needed, with Florida and North Carolina getting overall failing grades.
June 22, 2012 -
Following the General Assembly's passage of legislation legalizing fracking, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue's office reports receiving thousands of calls and emails asking for a veto. She also got a letter from the former mayor of a Texas community where fracking is big business warning about the bill's threats to property rights.
June 13, 2012 -
State lawmakers rushing to legalize a controversial method of natural-gas drilling got a visit from the former mayor of a rural Texas town where fracking is booming. Calvin Tillman shared a cautionary tale about what the gas industry can do to a community's landscape, residents' health and property rights.
May 23, 2012 -
A new database tracks exonerations of people who were falsely convicted of crimes, finding that almost a third of them took place in Southern states.
May 10, 2012 -
A Gallup survey finds that a decline in the emotional health of Gulf Coast residents since the 2010 oil spill is "statistically significant and meaningfully large."
March 22, 2012 -
As President Obama pushes to speed construction of the southern tier of a controversial oil pipeline leading to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast, nearby residents speak out against worsening the disproportionate toxic burden they already bear.
February 24, 2012 -
For-profit businesses have contributed $31 million to date to super PACs, independent committees that can raise unlimited funds to influence elections -- and companies in Southern states have been especially generous.
