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Sue Sturgis

Sue Sturgis

Editorial Director at Facing South

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Libel case over North Carolina voter fraud lies moves forward

The N.C. Court of Appeals recently rejected a request from the Pat McCrory Committee Defense Fund and the law firm Holtzman Vogel to throw out a libel suit filed against them for falsely accusing voters of committing fraud in the 2016 election. After the former Republican governor narrowly lost to D…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Keeping the expanded child tax credit would ease t...

Earlier this year, Congress approved expanding the child tax credit and paying it out in advance as part of the American Rescue Plan economic stimulus bill. As Democrats discuss extending the credit, advocates argue that making it permanent would slash child poverty rates, which are especially high …
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INSTITUTE INDEX: How Entergy thwarted energy resilience in Louisiana

Hurricane Ida’s devastation of Louisiana’s electric grid and the deadly power outages that resulted show the risk that highly centralized generation systems present in an era of increasingly destructive climate change-driven weather events. Yet Entergy — a Fortune 500 company that’s the main power p…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Remembering West Virginia’s Battle of Blair Mounta...

This Labor Day weekend, people will gather in West Virginia to mark the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. We look at what led to the bloody battle — when 10,000 Black, white, and immigrant coal miners joined together to fight for union rights aga…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The money behind disinformation attacks on NC voti...

Taking a cue from controversial efforts in other states like Arizona and Georgia, North Carolina’s far-right House Freedom Caucus — repeating the Big Lie about “rigged elections” — wants to be allowed to open up the state’s voting machines and peer inside, but state elections officials say that pres…
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How Art Pope’s money shaped UNC’s toxic debate over Nikole Hannah-J...

Long before journalist Hannah-Jones’ tenure fight with the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, the influential conservative policy network built and funded by millionaire businessman and GOP power broker Art Pope had turned its attention to her reporting on racism with attacks and distortions reminis…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Democratic senator from Virginia blocking key pro-...

Three Democratic members of the evenly divided U.S. Senate have so far refused to sign on to the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, legislation endorsed by President Biden that would provide stronger protections for workers trying to form a union. Among the naysayers is Mark Warner of Virginia, t…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The disaster-stricken South looks to Biden for cli...

Tied for the hottest year on record globally, 2020 also brought the most $1 billion disasters ever in the U.S., and they took a disproportionate toll on the South’s most vulnerable communities. With most states in the region controlled by a party whose platform downplays climate change, environmenta…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Who’s funding the Senate’s Sedition Caucus?

The legal, real estate, investment, and oil and gas industries are among those that have contributed the most to the U.S. senators who were part of the effort to overturn the outcome of the presidential election. Among the companies that back spending groups which in turn have supported the Senate’s…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Meet the conservative powerbroker suing True the V...

North Carolina pharmaceutical entrepreneur Fred Eshelman gave $2.5 million to the Houston-based group to pursue claims of fraud in the presidential election, which he says they failed to take adequate action to substantiate. It’s not the first time Eshelman, a big political spender who gives most of…
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‘A real safety risk’: Raleigh police officers stopped driver withou...

‘A real safety risk’: Raleigh police officers stopped driver without wearing masks  Raleigh News & Observer
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The Texas fracking tycoon funding anti-abortion ex...

In a year of harsh anti-abortion bills, one introduced in Texas went furthest of all by allowing women who end a pregnancy to be put to death. The bill’s sponsor — a quadruple divorcee whose first wife sought a restraining order against him — is a major recipient of contributions from a fracking ser…
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The South pays dearly for nuclear industry’s faile...

In 2001, the U.S. nuclear industry began hyping plans for new commercial reactor construction, which had skidded to a halt after the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. But utilities’ ambitious and expensive plans have fallen apart, leaving ratepayers in some Southern states forking over millio…
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Duke Energy’s monopoly power faces challenges in Southern states

A new coalition seeks to end Duke Energy’s electric monopoly in North Carolina in hopes of hastening the shift to clean energy. There’s also an effort underway to bring competition to the electricity market in Florida, where Duke operates as a regional monopoly.
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Sue Sturgis

Sue is the editorial director of Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies.