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No Place Like Home (1992)
Purchase a PDF copy of "No Place Like Home"Image: Excerpt From the Cover Story:Two years before Lambert put his father in Hillhaven, Mary Ropp checked her sister Linda Stewart into a nursing home in...
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In covering Earth Day activities today, the online magazine Grist makes a compelling point:read more
View ArticleNo "Nuclear Option" for Iraq
Oh, this is rich. Swing State Project via MyDD has the goods on Sen. Johnny Isackson, the new Republican Senator from Georgia.read more
View ArticleThe War on Government
Rolling Stone magazine (home of Southern Exposure's former editor and ace investigative reporter, Eric Bates) has a story up about the admiread more
View ArticleCAFTA Drama Shakes the South
Since CAFTA passed the House by just one vote this morning -- 217-215 -- you can point to any one of the "ayes" as the "deciding vote." But as we predicted yesterday, the most gripping drama was in the...
View ArticleMay Day: The Great Boycott Debate
Usually, May Day -- celebrated world-wide as International Workers Day -- is ignored by most Americans. But this year promises to be different, thanks entirely to the growing movement for immigrant...
View ArticleImmigration backlash backlash
Wow! A couple of interesting days here at Facing South and around the nation. I won't try to recap all the news pouring in from around the country about the "Day Without Immigrants" yesterday.read more
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Gulf Watch: Louisiana congressman indicted for corruption
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Will Congress let poor children go hungry?
As the number of Americans suffering from hunger reaches record levels, federal lawmakers take aim at funding for the WIC program, which feeds some of the most vulnerable among us.Image: Facing South...
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Nationwide rallies aim to save U.S. Postal Service
Organized by postal workers' unions, the events are calling on Congress to pass a bill ending a pre-payment mandate for retiree health benefits that's pushing the agency into the red while threatening...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The political assault on reproductive health care
At the same time Planned Parenthood faces a sweeping probe by House Republicans, states have passed an unprecedented number of laws seeking to restrict women's access to legal abortions.Image: Facing...
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New coal ash hazards come to light as Congress fights regulation
Soon after the EPA released new data showing the hazards of coal ash ponds, a massive bluff built of coal ash collapsed into Lake Michigan. So why are lawmakers still fighting strict federal oversight...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Follow the fracking money
A gusher of political cash is flowing into Congress from the natural gas industry to fight regulation of the environmentally risky drilling method known as "fracking."Image: Facing South Appreciate...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Should Congressmen trade stock in companies they oversee?
A Washington Post investigation finds that members of Congress are trading stock in companies they have the power to influence. That's perfectly legal under current law and ethics rules -- but should...
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RESTORE Act offers Gulf Coast a shot at economic mobility after the oil spill...
Out of the tragedy of the 2010 BP oil disaster we could soon see new opportunities emerge thanks to the passage of a federal law directing fines back to the region.Image: Facing South Appreciate this...
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Southern states lack adequate disclosure of fracking's chemical hazards
A new report from OMB Watch finds that most of the states that do not require public disclosure of toxic chemicals used in fracking are in the South, and Southern states are also among those with weak...
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Southern states lack adequate disclosure of fracking's chemical hazards
A new report from OMB Watch finds that most of the states where fracking is taking place that do not require any public disclosure of the chemicals used in the controversial gas drilling process are in...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Disappearing disclosure
This week Senate Republicans killed the DISCLOSE Act, which would have expanded transparency requirements for political money. We take a by-the-numbers look at the bill's failure -- and why it...
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