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Obama presses forward on health reform; GOP stalls
July 24, 2009President Obama continued his campaign for health care reform this week with a stop at a Cleveland area clinic, July 23. The town hall event came one day after a major televised press conference during which...
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Port Chicago disaster remembered
July 24, 2009320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.
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Done crying, today shell even smile minimum wage & one moms story
July 24, 2009MERIDEN, Kan. — Celeste Henderson is a living, breathing mom who is in the news today, but only as a statistic. She’s one of the millions of American low-wage workers directly affected by Friday’s hike in...
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Please come to Pittsburgh
July 24, 2009They say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Maybe, at times, that’s true. This is about what is going to happen in another city, however — the home of the Pirates, Steeltown, USA, —...
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Media on card check Wrong or just missing the point?
July 24, 2009Just days after the New York Times and other media outlets reported recently that a group of senators “dropped” the majority sign-up provision of the Employee Free Choice Act, the Service Employees International Union responded with...
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