Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. October 30, 2008. Pastor Roberto Velez became a leader of an emerging Hispanic community in Mississippi after ICE arrested 595 workers at a local transformer plant.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. October 14, 2008. Laurel had begun to piece together a civic coexistence, binding together black, white and immigrant communities.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2008. "I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is."
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: Election 2008. May 14, 2008. Democratic candidates continue to win elections even in the reddest of red states
John K. Wilson, Huffington Post. March 13, 2008. Obama won handily despite a sizable number of Republicans voting for Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 11, 2008. Barack Obama takes 91% of the black vote and a 22 point lead over Hillary Clinton with 98% of the vote in.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 5, 2008. Clinton and Obama will constantly be battling for position, of course, but there are rumors that Obama has a couple of tricks up his sleeve.
Max Follmer, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 29, 2007. Max Follmer: They were among a group of lawyers who attempted to bribe a Mississippi Third Circuit Court Judge with at least $40,000 in cash.
Katharine Zaleski, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. November 28, 2007. Former Rep. Chip Pickering appeared at a Pentecostal gathering where theories against evolution were cheered and the Chief Justice of the Mississippi State Supreme Court declared that America "will always be a Christian nation until the good lord returns."
Elizabeth Hines, AlterNet: PEEK. August 15, 2007. Elizabeth G. Hines: "I used to think a four letter word that started with "F" was something other than FEMA," one woman says. "But not since Katrina."
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 25, 2007. Lindsay Beyerstein: While alligators prowl the ruins and the mail doesn't come, Mississippi's Republican governor, Haley Barbour, receives accolades.