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Center's mission, agenda profiled in S.C. newspaper
DEC. 13 , 2009 - The Center for a Better South's mission to develop progressive ideas, policies and information for thinking Southern leaders is profiled in a long story in today's issue of The Post and Courier, based in Charleston, S.C. Among the highlights were comments by former Mississippi Gov. William Winter, Alabama publisher Brandt Ayers and the Center's Leo Fishman. Read full story | Read background story.

AGENDA FOR A BETTER SOUTH
In November 2009, more than two dozen Southern thinkers met at Davidson College to develop a pragmatic Agenda for a Better South for Southern leaders to use to make things better. Read the Agenda.
POLICY BOOKS

The Center offers a dozen ideas on ways to create a more progressive and pragmatic tax code in Doing Better: Progressive Tax Ideas for the American South. In Getting Greener, it offers fresh environmental ideas.
2009 BRIEFING BOOK ON THE SOUTH

As a way to prepare participants for the 2009 conference at Davidson, the Center developed a 70-page briefing book with more than 50 pages of statistics about the 11 states of the South. Take a look -- you might find it helpful.
ABOUT THE CENTER

The Center for a Better South's mission to develop progressive ideas, policies and information for thinking leaders who want to make a difference in the American South. Click here to learn more about who we are and what we do.

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Op-ed: An agenda to improve the South
JAN. 31, 2010 -- Instead of solutions for addressing big problems, many Southern leaders today seem to kowtow to increasing partisanship and offer small sound bites for big problems. It doesn't have to be so. (Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald)

Center challenges South with bold new visions
NOV. 19, 2009 -- The Center for a Better South today released a major regional vision to challenge Southern legislators and leaders on ways to move the region forward to have significant and meaningful impacts on Southerners' lives.

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