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Unions and allies get support for gas tax hike for highway-mass transit funding
June 24, 2015The legislation is important both for jobs creation and to repair and replace the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to repair, replace and upgrade bus and subway systems.
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Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor’s degree at 102
June 24, 2015Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.
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Toward a new foreign policy
June 24, 2015U.S. foreign policy is dangerous, undemocratic, and deeply out of sync with real global challenges - is continuous war inevitable, or can we change course?
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Today in LGBTQ history: Stonewall Inn made historic landmark
June 24, 2015Today the Stonewall Inn, site of the historic rebellion for LGBTQ rights was made a landmark by New York City's Landmarks Preservation Committee. The vote was unanimous.
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As mayors meet in San Francisco, ending racist violence is a theme
June 23, 2015One issue kept resurfacing: how to confront and deal with the virulent racism that remains a current in U.S. life.
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