Poll workers aggressively approaching voters inside early voting sites. Automated phone calls from disconnected numbers. Is this any way to run a campaign? More...
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Art Pope bankrolls dubious 'voter fraud' crusade
North Carolina's conservative benefactor Art Pope has taken a leading role in the right's crusade against "voter fraud." But the groups he supports still can't prove it's a real problem. More...
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Federal inspectors clueless about cementing, oil spill panel finds
FRI 10/29 | Halliburton's cement mixture may have contributed to BP's deadly blowout, but federal inspectors knew next to nothing about cementing, says the government's oil spill panel. More...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Block the vote?
FRI 10/29 | A by-the-numbers look at efforts to suppress this vote this election season. More...
N.C. Democrats launch boycott of businesses owned by conservative financier Art Pope
THURS 10/28 | The party is protesting Variety Wholesalers' pouring of hundreds of thousands of dollars into right-wing political organizations running misleading election ads. More...
VOICES: Will the Tea Party movement turn on corporate America?
THURS 10/28 | The Left often assumes the Tea Party movement is little more than a front for corporate interests, but has David Koch's money created a monster he and his henchmen can't control? More...
Help Facing South watchdog the 2010 elections!
WED 10/27 | Your donation of $15, $25 or more will help Facing South step up our investigations of shadowy Big Money and threats to voting rights in the 2010 elections. Chip in today! More...
A Pope of climate denial
TUES 10/26 | Art Pope, North Carolina's leading conservative benefactor, has worked closely with the Koch oil barons and spent millions of his own discount retail fortune to sow doubt about the scientific consensus on global warming. Now he's hoping to reap the political benefits. More...
Investigations & Reports
SPECIAL REPORT: Industry wraps coal ash regulation fight in the mantle of civil rights
Industry interests are using 501(c)(4) "social welfare" lobbying groups to give their fight against coal ash regulation the appearance of being about economic and racial justice. More...
SPECIAL REPORT: Washington has yet to address key failures exposed by Katrina
AUGUST 2010 | On the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a new Institute report finds that while community action has flourished in the wake of the storm, the President and Congress have yet to fix key problems in disaster and recovery policy -- undermining Gulf rebuilding and putting lives at risk from future disasters. More...
Life in the Gulf Dead Zone
JULY 2010 | Scientists fear the BP oil disaster will accelerate the growth of the Gulf Dead Zone -- thousands of square miles of water that can no longer support shrimp and other seafood animals. But oil isn't the only energy source that threatens Gulf waters. More...
BP, BAYOUS AND BYWAYS: Dispatches from the Gulf Coast
JUNE 2010 | Facing South traveled hundreds of miles along the Gulf Coast, interviewing dozens of residents, community leaders, government officials and BP representatives for our week-long fact-finding mission. A glimpse at the news and lessons we discovered at the scene of the oil disaster. More...
COAL'S DIRTY SECRET
MAY/JUNE 2010 | Coal ash is the country's second-biggest source of industrial waste and full of arsenic, lead and other toxins -- yet it's routinely dumped near communities with little publicity and few rules. In a week-long investigation, Facing South looks at the growing problem of coal ash and the looming battle in Washington over regulation. More...
More Recent Coverage
A new report finds that U.S. Senate candidates who've helped block action or cast doubt on global warming are getting financial support from European firms with a stake in blocking greenhouse gas regulation. More...
African-American farmers gathered in the historic New Deal resettlement community of Tillery, N.C. over the weekend to draw attention to the continuing decline of black land ownership and to call on the Senate to pay for a long-awaited race discrimination agreement. They also began raising money for a private fund to support black agriculture. More...
Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann has been the target of more than 50 complaints ranging from accusations of brutality, to rape, to improper searches -- yet he was never flagged for entrance into the city's monitoring program for possible problem officers. More...
While some conservatives have distanced themselves from controversial elements of the Tea Party movement, groups in North Carolina backed by influential donor Art Pope continue to embrace them. More...
Big polluters are also big spenders when it comes to efforts to influence next month's mid-term elections -- but fortunately there is a host of resources to help voters figure out who the clean-energy candidates are. More...
Three conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against BP under the federal Endangered Species Act, citing the harm the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster continues to cause Gulf wildlife. More...
"Waiting for 'Superman,'" the controversial new documentary about U.S. public schools, promotes doing away with teachers' unions and creating charters -- but is that really the formula for educational success? More...
