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Some victories and more battles on NYC budget
July 1, 2010The new budget contains significant cuts to vital services, but the City Council, buoyed by a huge outpouring of rage from city residents and workers, turned back some of the worst cuts.
Read moreEPA urges reduction in dispersants on Gulf Coast
July 1, 2010Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson ordered the company last May to reduce its usage of dispersants by 75 percent.
Read moreIllinois Republican candidates blasted for extremism
July 1, 2010Republican candidates for Illinois governor and U.S. Senate are being blasted for embracing extreme right-wing policies.
Read moreTeacher funding added to war spending bill
July 1, 2010Lawmakers who want to prevent thousands of teacher layoffs but oppose spending more money on the war in Afghanistan face a dilemma in Congress this week.
Read moreGov’t spying on citizens? ACLU map shows Bush years full of it
June 30, 2010Despite what anti-Obama conspiracy theorists, tea partiers and other various anti-government groups say, government political spying was rampant during the Bush-Cheney years.
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