U.S.
Breakthrough in struggle for same-sex marriage rights
February 19, 2004While the Massachusetts Legislature adjourned Feb. 13 without having added an amendment to the state’s constitution banning same-sex marriage, the nation’s attention swung to the other coast when San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex...
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Ending needless deaths
February 13, 2004Reversing the 1980s Reagan/Bush (and now the new Bush) ideological drive to make health care a market commodity will require a major political struggle.
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Peoples Gas gives Chicagoans cold shoulder
February 13, 2004CHICAGO – Miriam Cienfuegos, 26, had her gas turned off illegally Jan. 20. Under Illinois law, no person should be disconnected after Dec. 1. This latest shutoff, in the midst of a record low temperature cold...
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Hospital VP tells packed hearing: Stock health comes first
February 13, 2004PHILADELPHIA – When Tenet Healthcare System closed the historic Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital Dec. 18, the for-profit corporation did not ask the city or state for help or inform them of its plans because earlier...
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Social Security doing just fine
February 13, 2004You may have heard that our Social Security system is headed for trouble when the generation known as the baby boom begins to retire. You heard wrong.
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