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  • Texas election effort started

    Texas election effort started

    August 8, 2002

    DALLAS, Texas – North Texans aren’t waiting for Labor Day to work on the November elections. Student and community coalitions are laying their plans for voter registration drives beginning in August. The Dallas AFL-CIO began making...

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  • Dick Cheney, Vice President in hiding

    Dick Cheney, Vice President in hiding

    August 8, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

    Commentary Vice President Dick Cheney has spent most of the past year in hiding, ostensibly from terrorists, but increasingly it seems obvious that it is Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the public he...

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  • Quality public education is the only solution

    Quality public education is the only solution

    August 8, 2002

    The African-American community has long promoted the virtue of acquiring a good education. We are warned to never forget that during slavery Black people were denied an education, and it was illegal to teach a slave...

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  • Political shadow of the farm bill

    Political shadow of the farm bill

    August 8, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

    As the new Farm Bill has been passed by Congress and is expected to be approved by President Bush, The Wall Street Journal is voicing its disapproval. It proclaims: “All that rooting, snooting noise you hear...

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  • Castro hails U.S. House vote to ease blockade

    Castro hails U.S. House vote to ease blockade

    August 2, 2002 By Susan Webb

    In his July 26 speech marking the 49th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, that launched the Cuban revolution, Cuban president Fidel Castro hailed the U.S. House of Representatives’ overwhelming approval of measures easing...

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