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Why you cant sit out the health care fight
August 7, 2009COMMENTARY I was part of a recent Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA) conference call on the mobilization to fight for real health care reform. It was a wonderful, well attended event, chaired by Ed Coyle the...
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SLIDE SHOW Faces of health care fight
August 6, 2009On Aug. 4, some 800 Illinois residents, political leaders, union members and health care experts came together to demand quality, affordable health care for all. Rally sponsors included Health Care for America Now, Illinois Citizen Action...
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Lozano launches bid for state office
August 6, 2009The announcement was made at the site of the new Little Village High School, symbolic of the many struggles waged by Chicago’s Mexican American community and a beacon of hope for the future.
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Fair development is big issue in latest Thompson endorsement
August 6, 2009NEW YORK — The campaign of Bill Thompson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the November election, continues to pick up steam, this time gaining the endorsement of 15,000-member Retail, Wholesale, and...
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Obama announces electric car grant
August 6, 2009Elkhart, Indiana, residents cheered President Obama Aug. 5 as he announced $2.4 billion in federal grants -- $39 million of it for economically devastated Elkhart -- to develop electric cars and trucks “right here in the...
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