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  • EDITORIAL: Sept. 11th  5 years later

    EDITORIAL: Sept. 11th 5 years later

    September 8, 2006

    Most Americans remember where they were when airplanes slammed into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most remember the alarm, anger and sadness they felt when they realized that this was a massive terrorist...

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  • Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

    Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

    September 8, 2006

    Several leading women’s organizations, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, are vigorously protesting the latest scheme by GOP President George W. Bush and his Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to downsize and outsource much of her...

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  • Ohio grandma rages at corporate tax hypocrisy

    Ohio grandma rages at corporate tax hypocrisy

    September 8, 2006

    School boards usually lack the power to protect their tax base from corporate giveaways A tiny grandmother from Toledo named Charlotte Cuno stood on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court last March, enraged by questions...

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  • Gary teachers win nine-day strike

    Gary teachers win nine-day strike

    September 8, 2006 By Paul S. Kaczocha

    GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...

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  • Oil and defense CEOs hit the jackpot

    Oil and defense CEOs hit the jackpot

    September 8, 2006

    The $3 a gallon shelled out by customers at the pump has lined the pockets of top energy executives, according to a report released Aug. 29 by United for a Fair Economy and the Institute for...

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