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Editorial: Time for a change on Cuba
January 9, 2009Among the new opportunities that the election of a new president and Congress brings us is to end once and for all the vicious U.S. economic blockade and travel ban imposed on Cuba nearly 50 years...
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Editorial: Peoples business cant wait
January 9, 2009President-elect Obama’s now oft-repeated refrain that “the people’s business can’t wait” is becoming more obvious every day. The crashing of overloaded electronic unemployment filing systems in many parts of the country underlines again the urgency of...
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LETTERS: January 17
January 9, 2009Macabre Arpaio He’s national, he’s international, he’s notorious. Live from Maricopa County Jail, the inverted story of local boy makes good, on the TV “variety” show Late Night with Conan the barbarian (www.nbc.com/Schedule/) featured the coward...
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You read it here first: predictions for 2009
January 9, 2009When analog TV broadcast ends Feb. 17 all hell will break lose. The biggest stimulus package in U.S. history ... Campaigns for a restoration of full employment ... The Internet will spew democracy far beyond capitalism’s...
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House Democratic leaders pledge to pass equal pay laws
January 9, 2009In an effort to correct a recent US Supreme Court decision that limits a workers' right to seek redress from an employer who practices pay discrimination, the US House of Representatives will likely pass two bills...
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