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States mull privatizing lotteries
February 23, 2007NewsAnalysis Texas Gov. Rick Perry has raised the public’s eyebrows once again. Perry’s staffers have been cooking up a scheme for six months with former Sen. Phil Gramm to sell the state’s lottery. The Austin American...
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Spitzer administration presents new challenges
February 23, 2007NewsAnalysis New York’s new Democratic governor Eliot Spitzer has pledged to reform state government, and that’s widely welcomed. There are lots of reasons why people support cleaning up politics, the biggest one being that too few...
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Latinos lead fight for union at Tyson
February 23, 2007The high injury rate at U.S. meatpacking plants is emerging as a big issue in the struggle to unionize that industry. The drive, among a largely Latino immigrant workforce, seeks to reverse the 25-year downward trend...
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WHATS REALLY GOOD
February 23, 2007Last dance for controversial mascot The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s controversial team mascot, Chief Illiniwek, who performed during the school’s football and basketball games, danced his last dance Feb. 21, after the university decided to drop...
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Profits up, but Chrysler cuts
February 23, 2007FENTON, Mo. — An autoworker who is a member of the Missouri Legislature says Chrysler’s announcement that it is gutting 1,300 jobs from its South Assembly Plant here has “more to do with the bargaining climate...
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