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Articles Written by: R. NEAL
DERBY, Conn. - From Main Street merchants to U.S. senators, health care and its ballooning costs qualify as the new century's worst fiscal migraine. Now the problem is hitting not just government and employer budgets, but millions of people forced into ...
From NEAL R. PEIRCE,
Stateline.org,
6 Jul 2009
The RealtyTrac foreclosure report for the first quarter of 2008 is out. It shows foreclosures increasing more than 23% nationwide as compared to the fourth quarter of 2007, and a disturbing 112% year-over-year increase from the first quarter of 2007. ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
29 Apr 2008
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R. NEAL blogs two days a week for Facing South. Based in Knoxville, TN,
R. Neal formerly ran the popular blog South Knox Bubba. He is now coordinator
of KnoxViews.
SUE STURGIS blogs ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
24 Apr 2008
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released unemployment figures for March 2008. Since March 2007, unemployment has increased by more than 11% around the South, from an overall average of 4.5% to 5.0%.
Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee had the highest ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
22 Apr 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that two Kentucky death row inmates had not proven their case that executions by lethal injection posed an unacceptable risk of excruciating pain for the condemned.
The complicated ruling was accompanied by 97 ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
17 Apr 2008
Families USA recently released a report, Dying for Coverage, from all 50 states on the number of uninsured and the estimated number of deaths directly related to lack of health insurance.
Commenting on the report, Executive Director of Families USA ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
15 Apr 2008
As noted here recently, the South is experiencing explosive population growth and a changing demographic.
In this report, the Southern Regional Education Board takes a look at the implications for school systems around the South and concludes:
More ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
10 Apr 2008
Interest in alternative energy such as wind, geothermal, and solar is spreading beyond so-called "fringe" environmentalists and "tree huggers" to the business world. If there is any doubt, consider this: U.S. clean energy venture capital investments ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
8 Apr 2008
In a hearing before the Tennessee Senate Environment and Conservation Committee yesterday, Knoxville based National Coal Corp. said that a proposed ban on mountaintop removal mining would put them out of business and affect hundreds of jobs in the ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
27 Mar 2008
In case you missed it, 60 Minutes reported this week on Knoxville TN based Remote Area Medical and a recent free clinic they conducted in Knoxville. A transcript of the 60 Minutes report is here and following is the video:
Remote Area Medical (RAM) ...
From R. NEAL,
Facing South,
4 Mar 2008
