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Editorials
November 10, 2001Election is setback for ultra-right Republican Michael Bloomberg eked out victory in the New York mayoral race using $60 million of his own fortune, and exploiting the weaknesses of Mark Green’s campaign and divisions among the...
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International Criminal Court: a better way
November 10, 2001From Biblical times to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, men and women have dreamed and worked for a world free from war. So far they haven’t done too well.
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Parents fight hostile Phila. school takeover
November 10, 2001PHILADELPHIA – Adhering to the Bush educational policies, Pennsylvania Acting Gov. Mark Schweiker and the state legislature intend to force privatization on the School District of Philadelphia. In August, Gov. Tom Ridge paid Edison Schools, Inc.,...
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School board puts workers out, goons in!
November 10, 2001JEFFERSON, Ohio – Showing a united front of all non-teaching workers in the Jefferson School District, 125 members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)/Ohio Association of Public School Employees Local 419 struck...
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Unemployment jumps
November 10, 2001Although the Labor Department’s latest employment report, released Nov. 2, didn’t rattle the stock market, it did show that another 415,000 men and women lost their jobs in October, bringing the official count of the unemployed...
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