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Survey: Majority backs public schools over alternatives
July 29, 2013The U.S. public still strongly supports public schools and wants to improve them - and is willing to pay to do so.
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Letter Carriers: Even Dem plans for postal “reform” fall short
July 29, 2013The latest Republican version of "reform" of the red-ink-ridden U.S. Postal Service is unacceptable.
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Today in labor history: Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law
July 26, 2013The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law today in 1990.
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Alberta oil leak into week 10 – can it be stopped?
July 26, 2013Nine weeks ago, oil near a tar sands extraction site in Alberta, Canada, began to leak and ooze from the ground, blackening vegetation and killing wildlife, and it shows no signs of stopping.
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Rep. Steve King’s idiot remarks are serious problem
July 26, 2013The comments of Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, which stereotype undocumented immigrants as drug smugglers, have embarrassed his own Republican Party, yet are part of a larger anti-immigrant, racist agenda.
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