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Budget cuts hampered response to giant fire, firefighters charge

November 28, 2009 By Press Associates Inc.

LOS ANGELES - In the latest indication of how budget cuts endanger public safety, the firefighters union president says the mayor's slashes hampered the response to the huge Station Fire in September.

World socialists gather in Caracas

November 28, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

If nothing else, the "First International Meeting of Parties of the Left" in Caracas last week was ambitious.

Letter on Honduras urges U.S. to stand firm vs. coup

November 27, 2009 By Tom Hayden

The following is an open letter sent by peace and social activist Tom Hayden to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on the situation in Honduras.

Minnesota experience may offer solution for ‘jobless recovery’

November 27, 2009 By Barb Kucera

When President Obama convenes a White House forum Dec. 3 to consider ways to create jobs, he should ponder a program that worked successfully for Minnesota in the 1980s.

Transit workers’ rally highlights safety, budget woes

November 27, 2009 By Rick Nagin

CLEVELAND - A rally protesting the Regional Transit Authority's refusal to address worker and rider safety in contract talks dramatized the challenge facing public transit systems in today's economic crisis.