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Legislative leader to sue Calif. governor over cuts
August 9, 2009California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, announced Aug. 7 that he will sue Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over nearly $500 million in line-item cuts the governor made last week in signing a budget revision...
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Don’t let right-wing astroturfers scare Americans into silence
August 8, 2009Opinion ST. LOUIS — While a healthy, public debate around health care reform positively reinforces our proud democratic traditions, heckling, yelling, disrupting and even assaulting those you disagree with doesn't. But that's exactly what's happening here...
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Economy on verge of new foreclosure crisis
August 8, 2009Signaling continued economic distress, Deutsche Bank estimated today that over 50 percent of mortgage holders may owe more than their homes are worth. Already 25 percent of mortgages are now “underwater.” “The percentage of “underwater” loans...
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Rights groups appeal for UN investigation of rendition
August 8, 2009NEW YORK, Aug 6 (IPS) - Charging that the U.S. government was complicit in the forced disappearance of an influential Muslim scholar four years ago, human rights groups in the U.S., the U.K., and Switzerland have...
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Congress losing patience with lending industry on foreclosure prevention
August 8, 2009Original source: Rep. Barney Frank, D. Mass., chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, is taking a hard line with the lending industry for failing to take action to prevent more foreclosures. In a statement...
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