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  • Is GOP scheming to steal another election?

    Is GOP scheming to steal another election?

    November 9, 2007

    Just weeks ago, a proposed ballot initiative by far-right Republicans with links to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani seemed dead, after efforts to put it on California’s June primary ballot imploded amid secretive financial maneuvering by its...

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  • B.J. Mangaoang, longtime Communist leader, 92

    B.J. Mangaoang, longtime Communist leader, 92

    November 2, 2007

    B.J. Mangaoang, a longtime leader of the Communist Party of Washington state, died Oct. 20 at the age of 92. B.J. was born Baba Jean Sears in a homestead house in Bellevue, Wash., in 1915. She...

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  • The inhumanity of partial truth

    The inhumanity of partial truth

    November 2, 2007

    There is a lot of truth to go around in this world. When you have a world of complexity, you also have, and need, many ways of looking at and understanding it. The problem comes when...

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  • The fires and the media beast

    The fires and the media beast

    November 2, 2007

    As the smoke and ash settle out here in San Diego, a few things have become evident about the news in this age of disaster capitalism. One is the class nature of the corporate media beast....

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  • LETTERS: Nov. 3

    LETTERS: Nov. 3

    November 2, 2007

    Hotel workers deserve insurance I would like to inform the public about the Holiday Inn Capitol in Old Sacramento. The problem is many of the workers are at risk of losing health insurance because the Holiday...

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