While the U.S. nuclear industry is pushing plans to build seven new nuclear reactors -- all of them south of the Mason-Dixon line -- its regulators have failed to adequately enforce fire regulations at existing nuclear power plants. …
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Federal watchdog faults nuke plant fire safety
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Drilling deceptions
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/07/drilling-deceptions.aspNorth Carolina is one of the last Southern states to still support the federal ban on new offshore oil drilling, but lifting that ban has now become an issue in the governor's race. This week, Republican nominee and Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory (photo right) announced that he would issue an executive …
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School officials in Louisiana attempt to suppress bilingual speech
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/07/school-officials-in-lousiana-attempt-to.asp&&—Terrebonne Parish school officials are considering barring students from speaking a foreign language during commencement speeches. The proposal comes after Hue and Cindy Vo, cousins who were co-valedictorians at Ellender High School, incorporated their native Vietnamese language into parts of their commencement speech before translating the words into English for the general audience. …
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“Let Justice Roll Down as Waters and Righteousness as a Mighty Steam”
http://www.friendsofwebster.com/?p=161“Arc of Justice Bending Toward Moore’s Ford” CNN When Justice Died Politicizing our nation’s law firm Waiting for an act of Racial justice in North Carolina Gunned down A step closer to welcoming Mandela, about time. Racial Injustice What to the Slave is the 4th of July? Frederick Douglas Paul Gregory House freed after 22 years on death row, I am sick of this.
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some good thing
http://www.somegoodthing.comFacing South: Drilling deceptions → The U.S. Energy Information Agency estimates that production from currently protected areas would reach 200,000 barrels per day in about 20 years. And that’s for the entire U.S. continental shelf
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Facing South: Drilling deceptions
http://www.somegoodthing.com/post/40863747Facing South: Drilling deceptions
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The Hankster
http://grassrootsindependent.blogspot.comCatholic voters: A somewhat contradictory statistical look (The Tidings) The CARA study of 1,007 Catholic voters found 41 percent unaffiliated with either the Democratic Party or Republican PartyVoter registration surges in Georgia, North Carolina (Southern Sudies/Facing South) Democrats have gone from 44.8% to 45.3%, and unaffiliated voters from 20.9% to 21.4% since January. CAMPAIGN * Obama's Move to the Center (Examiner.com) PARTY BUSINESSMinnesota Independence party enlists Mayor Bloomberg (
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Wednesday Evening Roundup
http://www.LeftInAlabama.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2056Facing South
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Creative Loafing Charlotte » theCLog
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog“one of the electricity industry’s most vocal environmentalists.” Yet that’s just what readers of last Sunday’s New York Times magazine found. Sue Sturgis of Facing South offers a different view.
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Jim Rogers, environmentalist
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/2008/07/01/jim-roge...“one of the electricity industry’s most vocal environmentalists.” Yet that’s just what readers of last Sunday’s New York Times magazine found. Sue Sturgis of Facing South offers a different view.
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Why Protest Dominion Power?
http://caramelizedopinions.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-protest-...frying the world. If I were a mayoral candidate, I wouldn’t want the devil backing me.I'm sure there will be loads of fallout about the tactics of the protest. But the issues behind the action must remain on the table. For more coverage, check out: Southern Studies and "It's Getting Hot in Here."
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Lawyer behind Katrina insurance litigation gets five years for bribery
http://southernstudies.org/gulfwatch/2008/06/lawyer-behind-k...son, Zach, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for charges related to his failure to report the wrongdoing. Also awaiting sentencing are attorneys Tim Balducci and Steve Patterson, a former state auditor. Scruggs and his co-conspirators were indicted last year for offering to pay Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey $50,000 to rule in favor of the Scruggs Law Firm in a lawsuit over the allocation of $26.5 million in attorney's fees for the Katrina litigation. Lackey reported the bribery attempt to the
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MNI shares way down
http://heraldwatch.blogspot.com/2008/06/mni-shares-way-down....Shares of Herald parent company McClatchy are traded at a new low of $6.79 during today's session. A quick summary of McClatchy by the numbers is available here.
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