It’s Week 5 of what is turning out to be a highly interesting 2009 Southeastern Conference football season. Story lines abound … Tebow injury, Kiffin-Chizik round two, the Chizik Streak, Alabama offensive balance, LSU vs. CBS, hype too heavy for Ole Miss … take your pick.
Going into this weekend, Florida and Georgia remain atop the Eastern Division, each at 2-0 in league play. LSU leads the Western pack at 2-0 with Alabama and Auburn also undefeated in league play at 1-0. After this weekend, despite Florida taking an open date, the situation could change.
There are seven games on tap this weekend, four of them conference encounters. Which is the “big game” of the week? That would depend on who you might ask.
Coming up this Sunday, CBS’s “60 Minutes” will air a long anticipated show on coal ash, a byproduct of coal power plants. But according to the advance blurb, the story will focus on how coal ash is recycled in dozens of ways and used in consumer products like carpet for schools.
How safe are these products? Lesley Stahl talks to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.
For mo-better coverage, check out our previous stories on one of the worst environmental disasters in American history.
Michael Moore asks Senator Sanders “what is wrong with American capitalism?”
Senator Bernie Sanders makes a poignant appearance in Michael Moore’s latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story, highlighting precisely the deficiencies of the current political and economic climate and the way the American public is getting screwed in the process. Senator Sanders consistently defends the American middle class from the greed and abuse of the insurance companies, the bank lobby, the drug companies and Wall Street who have taken control of the decision-making within our government and our institutions.
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
