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Republican wins in Louisiana, exploits Jena 6
October 26, 2007Republican Bobby Jindal won election as governor of Louisiana, Oct. 20, with a campaign that evaded the issues while offering barely coded appeals to racism in the case of the Jena Six. Jindal won 53 percent...
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On the New Orleans docks: Workers fight to rebuild their city
October 26, 2007NEW ORLEANS — A small sliver of downtown New Orleans has bounced back as a neighborhood of gleaming corporate office towers and a playground for the rich. There, on Oct. 19, in the “isle of denial,”...
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House GOP upholds Bush veto on SCHIP, union leaders vow retribution
October 20, 2007WASHINGTON (PAI) — Despite strong lobbying by unions, health care groups, children’s groups and their allies, House Republicans mustered enough votes on Oct. 18 to uphold anti-worker President George Bush’s veto of children’s health care. Union...
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Gore, global warming and the whole damn thing
October 19, 2007Al Gore, former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate on Climate Change, a UN-sponsored group of scientists, have jointly won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work on global...
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LETTERS: Oct. 20
October 19, 2007Watada’s leadership“I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and...
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