The Blue Dog Democrat from North Carolina delivers statements on health reform that sound a lot like those made by the arch-conservative from South Carolina. As it turns out, Shuler's record of enjoying generous campaign contributions from the health industry also resembles Wilson's. More...
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The latest release from the independent vintage music label based in Raleigh, N.C. features songs from the mill villages of Gaston County, N.C. in the late 1920s and early 1930s. More...
The state Utilities Commission rejected environmental advocates' arguments that the company is building the multibillion-dollar plant in western North Carolina to sell power outside its service area. Meanwhile, the company's CEO gets a subpoena to testify in a Cliffside protester's trial. More...
State hearings into the campaign finances of former N.C. Gov. Mike Easley reveal that GOP gubernatorial candidates failed to disclose dozens -- perhaps hundreds -- of campaign flights in 2004 and 2008, the same charge which launched the Easley investigation. More...
The insurance giant -- which controls 96.8% of North Carolina's market for individual health insurance -- is using its customers to lobby against competition. More...
A new analysis of self-reported data from power companies finds that pollution is seeping into the groundwater from 13 coal ash ponds located across the state -- in some cases at levels 380 times state standards. More...
The health insurance giant wants to randomly test state workers and their dependents for nicotine and body fat and adjust premiums accordingly. But the company -- which holds a no-bid contract to insure state workers -- has been less than forthcoming about its own hefty administrative costs. More...
W. Horace Carter received numerous threats for his reporting but pressed on -- and in 1953 the Tabor City Tribune won a groundbreaking award for shining a light on white-supremacist violence. More...
Crystal Lee Sutton, whose role in organizing a North Carolina textile plant was memorialized in the award-winning film starring Sally Field, battled her insurance company over its decision to refuse needed treatment, which she called abuse of the working poor and likened to murder. More...
Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith actually said blacks were statistically more prone to violence than whites -- but some community leaders are still unhappy with his corrected statement. More...
A by-the-numbers look at the holiday, from its roots in a bloody strike to the state of labor today. More...
North Carolina lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill that will allow 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote. More...
North Carolina-based Bank of America is the biggest mortgage servicer in the business. And judging by Treasury Department data, its customers searching for loan modifications are the most frustrated. More...
As reform advocates step up their organizing, town hall meetings have calmed down and leveled-out the debate. Just over a week ago, advocates in Rocky Mount, NC didn't find it so easy to speak out. More...
Despite raucous protests, members of Congress are moving ahead with town hall meetings this week, with events today in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. Help Facing South cover these events! More...
Help us watchdog town hall meetings being held by members of Congress across the South -- see our first video from Rep. Brad Miller's town hall in Raleigh, North Carolina! More...
New polls out from a North Carolina polling firm find that large percentages of voters in that state and Virginia don't believe President Obama was actually born in the United States -- while a surprising number also question whether Hawaii is really part of the country. More...
THURS 8/6 | In what social justice advocates are calling a milestone victory for the South, North Carolina lawmakers approved a bill allowing people facing the death penalty to challenge prosecutions on the grounds of racial bias. More...
Sixteen bank failures -- one-quarter of all bank failures in the United States so far this year -- have been reported in Georgia. Why are the state's banks so vulnerable? More...
A state commission spent two years crafting rules to monitor water pollution at factory farms -- but a state senator with close ties to the hog industry got his colleagues to unanimously pass a bill nixing those rules. Will the House follow suit? More...
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