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DeLay lashes out as support plummets
January 20, 2006HOUSTON — Support for Tom DeLay (R-Texas) is dwindling in his home district even as the former Speaker of the House threatens to “sue any station” that runs advertisements linking him to corruption. A new poll...
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Calif. govs new leaf budget
January 20, 2006Still trying to reinvent himself as a moderate, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a proposed $125.6 billion state budget Jan. 10 with more funds for transportation and education but with significant cuts for welfare recipients. Schwarzenegger’s...
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Mentally ill lose out
January 20, 2006Disabled suffer irreparable harm after losing access to vital medications under new privatized prescription drug plan I work in the field of mental health, and have managed or worked at group homes for people with psychiatric...
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The housing bubble
January 20, 2006The “Wal-Mart, low-wage, limited-benefit” stage of the U.S. economy is built on a foundation of unsustainable increases in debt: household debt, corporate debt, and government debt. The January 2001 tax cuts directed toward the rich, combined...
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Venezuela lends a hand in Maine
January 20, 2006“This is not about politics. This is about improving the lives of poor people. This is about people helping people.” That was Felix Rodriguez, CEO of Citgo Petroleum Corp., speaking in the small town of Windham,...
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