National
Protect your vote
September 24, 2008This year’s historic election may come down to two major factors: how many people turn out to the polls, and how many of their votes are counted. Voter turnout increased more than 120 percent during the...
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OPINION: Barney Smith, not Smith Barney
September 24, 2008The shockwaves from the financial crisis have left working class families in every part of the country in a state of great worry and fear. Over $100 billion of public money has been spent to bail...
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EDITORIAL: Bail out Main Street
September 20, 2008The largest crisis in U.S. financial history shook the foundations of Wall Street this week. The aftershocks of the earthquake that toppled the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers investment bank, Merrill Lynch and the AIG insurance giant —...
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McCain-Palin attacks fall flat with Latinos
September 20, 2008The Republican attack machine has launched a multifaceted offensive to falsely accuse Democrat Barak Obama of being anti-immigrant. In Spanish-language ads directed at Latino voters in the battleground states of Florida, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada,...
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Wall Street meltdown wallops Main Street
September 20, 2008The most serious financial crisis since the 1930s exploded this week, plunging global markets into a meltdown, pushing credit card rates up, threatening life savings and pensions, hiking the jobless rate, and sending John McCain and...
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