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EDITORIALS
February 11, 2005Trillions in red ink President George W. Bush’s 2006 budget resorts to so many accounting tricks it reads like the annual corporate report of Enron or WorldCom. Robert Greenstein, director of the widely respected Center on...
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Steroids, Racism and Statistics
February 11, 2005On a sunny July day in 1887, Cap Anson of the Chicago White Stockings refused to play a team from Newark unless they removed their starting pitcher, an African American named George Stovey. Thus began the...
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The Deep Sea Strike, 1946
February 11, 2005At age 19, the 1946 Deep Sea Strike climaxed my radicalization into unionism. The drama of the event stamped solidarity into my soul forever. Crews pouring off their ships, marching to the union hall on Fleet...
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Dangerous drugs
February 11, 2005Celebrex. Vioxx. Bextra. Celecoxib. These so-called cox-2 drugs became household names because of the fortune our pharmaceutical companies spent selling their wares to America’s households on primetime TV. Now they are even more in the public...
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Ohio newspaper strike enters 12th week
February 11, 2005The Vindicator newspaper strike here in Youngstown continues into its 12th week. Workers on the picket line have grown hardy against the winter. Two unions walked at the beginning of this strike: 171 people from The...
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