Author: corncam

The Mobile Register has a brilliant investigative report today on lax federal regulation of oil rig moorings.  Reporters Ben Raines and Bill Finch found that some types of rigs are not even required to withstand hurricane...

As Congress works to crack down on methamphetamine ingredients, mammoth retailer Wal-Mart is a driving force for a national law that supersedes – and potentially weakens – tough state laws such as Iowa’s...

Iowa’s Democratic Governor, Tom Vilsack, announced that he would sign an executive order to restore voting rights to ex-felons who have served their sentence and completed parole.   Vilsack said a bipartisan panel of...

I’d like to write about tsunami reconstruction efforts in Sri Lanka.  A friend went over there to supervise work for an NGO, and he is disgusted by the Sri Lankan government’s corruption, and its complete...