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Seniors on a roll for more victories
March 2, 2007CLEVELAND — “We’re on a roll,” said Samanthie Brooks, as she welcomed nearly 300 retiree activists at the Senior Voice legislative action conference Feb. 26 at Trinity Cathedral. “We are moving forward based on the tremendous...
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Labor making its voice heard
March 2, 2007Effects of organized labor’s drive for action on a working families agenda continued to be felt last week even though Congress was not in session. Among numerous indicators of labor’s new impact on the political scene...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 2, 2007VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.: Politician locks out voters, arrests vet The local Veterans for Peace chapter, along with members of the Tidewater Peace Alliance and Military Families Speak Out, had been circulating petitions to end the Iraq...
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U.S. ranks at bottom for child welfare
March 2, 2007It’s hard to be a child, but harder if you grow up in the United States, according to a recent United Nations report. Despite claims by “free market” braggarts that unfettered capitalism is the pinnacle of...
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No Child Left Behind isnt working
March 2, 2007The results of a nation-wide testing of high school seniors puts in doubts the efficacy of the Bush administration’s much touted No Child Left Behind Act. The National Assessment of Educational Progress for 2005, released on...
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