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Despite Coleman-Franken fallout, GOP gov. blocks election reform
May 29, 2009Original source: If vetoes are like slapshot goals in hockey, then Gov. Tim Pawlenty scored an election-reform hat trick last week. After vetoing motor-voter and felon-notification, he scotched the state Legislature’s big omnibus elections bill. The...
Read moreStudents don hard hats in unique school-trades partnership
May 29, 2009PHILADELPHIA — “We need the best people here. If you have a trade, a skill, no one can take that from you.” This was the advice Frank Marsh of Iron Workers Local 401 gave to the...
Read moreShadow wars: Is civilian control of war slipping away?
May 29, 2009Original source: Sudan: The two F-16s caught the trucks deep in the northern desert. Within minutes, the column of vehicles was a string of shattered wrecks burning fiercely in the January sun. Surveillance drones spotted a...
Read moreIn Israel, democratic rights in peril
May 29, 2009The Israeli government this week took a new step to suppress democratic rights in Israel. The government has approved a bill banning all commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, under penalty of imprisonment. [Nakba -...
Read moreU.S. a center-left nation, progressive leaders say
May 28, 2009WASHINGTON — Progressive leaders today released a new report showing that, on most issues, across the nation moderates line up with liberals, not conservatives. Rock the Vote executive director Heather Smith and Women’ Voices, Women’s Votes...
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