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Economy

Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts to address income inequality

By Sue Sturgis

October 5, 2012 - Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap.

Politics

Analysis confirms possible black voter suppression in Florida

By Sue Sturgis

June 26, 2007 - Tim Griffin -- a former aide to top Bush adviser Karl Rove and a key player in the U.S. attorney politicization scandal -- has long been haunted by charges that he was part of an illegal scheme to keep black Florida residents from voting in the 2004 elections.

More evidence emerges in Attorneygate-Little Rock

By Chris Kromm

March 23, 2007 - We wrote two weeks ago about one of the more startling examples of cronyism to emerge from the U.S. attorney scandal now engulfing Washington: the brazen move to replace Arkansas' Eastern District attorney Bud Cummins with Karl Rove's chosen replacement, J. Timothy Griffin.