The New Orleans land grab
C.C. Campbell-Rock, a New Orleans native, has a great piece in the San Francisco Bay View about what corporate leaders, especially the Bring Back New Orleans commission, have in store for the city:read...
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Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayers with the bill for risky...
Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors...
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Public gets last chance to weigh in on Duke-Progress merger
The N.C. Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 20 about the proposed merger of Progress Energy and Duke Energy to form the nation's largest electric utility, which would...
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who's behind the 'information attacks' on climate...
Dirty-energy interests, wealthy conservatives and the think tanks they fund have joined forces to target global-warming researchers using the Freedom of Information Act -- and this week they're set for...
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The battle goes on for Ikea workers in Virginia, and the world is watching
Following a July vote to unionize, workers at the Ikea-owned Swedwood plant in Danville, Va. are struggling for their rights against union-hostile supervisors.Image: Facing South Appreciate this post?...
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NC lawmakers take a one-sided look at fracking
Several North Carolina legislators are in Pennsylvania today for a fact-finding mission about the controversial natural-gas drilling method known as fracking -- and their tour guide is Chesapeake...
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Occupy Memphis: From lawyers to the homeless, a protest against plutocracy
The Occupy movement proves the spirit of protest against economic injustice is alive and well in the South.Image: Facing South Appreciate this post? Please donate & share below. Donate » Tweet »...
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Monopoly concerns hinder Duke-Progress merger plans
Federal regulators have ruled that the plan to create the nation's largest electric utility could allow the company to act anti-competitively. The decision comes after major environmental groups struck...
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Money for something
A new report from Good Jobs First makes the case that state programs offering corporations financial incentives to keep or create jobs need tougher oversight.Image: Facing South Appreciate this post?...
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VOICES: Privatizing America for their majesty, Kings Charles and David Koch
On an island off the coast of Florida, the billionaire brothers behind Koch Industries recently gave an order to push the privatization of schools, prisons and anything else standing in the way of the...
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Unions in the crosshairs
In her recent State of the State address, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley declared that unions were "not welcome" there -- part of a broader national assault against organized labor.Image: Facing...
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Another Supreme Court boost for corporate unaccountability?
As an ongoing case involving the parent company of Houston-based Shell Oil illustrates, conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court appear to want to put an end to the Alien Tort Claims Act, a key tool for...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The backlash against big-money politics
A large majority of U.S. voters say super PACs should be illegal, and a growing number of actions are targeting the Supreme Court decision that made them possible.Image: Facing South Appreciate this...
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Con JOBS
A bill originally sponsored by ethics-challenged Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee is being hailed as helping small businesses and workers, but watchdogs warn that it will erode transparency and...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy takes from the 99%, gives to data giants
A watchdog group has filed a petition with North Carolina regulators seeking to change the way the power giant sets its rates, which dramatically favor energy-hungry data centers run by well-heeled...
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Banking on Boeing
The bipartisan decision to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank of the United States -- which some conservatives have derisively dubbed "Boeing's Bank" -- shows that corporatists retain the upper...
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Fracking interests spent heavily to influence NC lawmakers
A report from North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections documents how companies with an interest in legalizing fracking in the state are investing heavily in legislators' campaigns.Image: Facing South...
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ALEC staggers but will it fall?
The campaign calling on companies to sever ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council is one of the most successful corporate accountability initiatives in history, but it now faces the...
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Billionaire privatization activists pushing 'neovouchers' for North Carolina
Conservative political activists connected to Wal-Mart and Amway are funding a campaign to funnel public money to religious and other private schools.Image: AFC's money has funded some rather nasty...
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VOICES: Walker & Koch Inc. pull it off but the fight continues
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the...
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