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OPINION: The strong wind at his back
November 6, 2008Well, the pundits were wrong. White voters didn't change their minds in the voting booth. Barack Obama's victory proves that some analysts gave too much weight to race, not only in gauging today's opinions but also...
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What a historic moment!
November 6, 2008On Nov. 4, 2008, it happened — Barack Obama became our first African American president. What an historic moment this is. A nation that held people of African descent in bondage for 300 years and denied...
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Labor, Virginia and Obama
November 4, 2008RICHMOND, Va. — Members of more than a dozen AFL-CIO unions packed the Communications Workers Local 2201 union hall here, Nov. 2, divided up into 30 teams and fanned out across north Richmond to get out...
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Author, activist Studs Terkel dies at 96
November 2, 2008CHICAGO (AP) — Studs Terkel captured the essence of Chicago in the pages of his best-selling oral histories, chronicling common people and celebrities alike. Along the way he became an ageless master of listening and speaking,...
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Health workers strike for safe staffing, job security
November 1, 2008Bright purple tee-shirts filled the plaza at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, as striking health care workers gathered to demand the highly profitable company improve staffing levels, stop contracting work out and drop proposed takeaways in...
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