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  • Lil Feist honored on 100th birthday

    Lil Feist honored on 100th birthday

    July 11, 2008

    SEATTLE — More than 150 family and friends packed the Nordic Heritage Museum hall here June 28 to celebrate Lil Husa Feist’s 100th birthday and to greet her as a warm and caring mother and grandmother...

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  • Miami loses two radio hosts to anti-Cuba bias

    Miami loses two radio hosts to anti-Cuba bias

    July 11, 2008

    Media censorship just doesn’t let up in Miami. On June 13, maverick journalist Max Lesnik gave his last broadcast on Radio WOCN where his programs had been heard each weekday for five years. Francisco Aruca also...

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  • Steelworkers vow to fight racism, elect Obama

    Steelworkers vow to fight racism, elect Obama

    July 9, 2008 By Scott Marshall And Denise Winebrenner Edwards

    LAS VEGAS — Over 3,000 Steelworker delegates filled the Las Vegas Bally Hotel convention center last week with raring-to-go enthusiasm for “taking back America for working people” in the 2008 elections. One delegate described it as...

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  • If not to Venezuela, send Luis Posada to Panama

    If not to Venezuela, send Luis Posada to Panama

    July 9, 2008

    Jose Pertierra is Venezuela’s U.S. lawyer. He is demanding that Luis Posada be returned to Panama to finish out jail time there in connection with an attempt with three others in 2000 to murder former Cuban...

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  • People and dogs for Obama at this parade

    People and dogs for Obama at this parade

    July 9, 2008

    Forks, population 3,193, “logging capital of the world,” is located in the far northwest corner of Washington State on the Olympic Peninsula. The town is famous for its towering conifers, loggers, mushrooms, steelhead trout, and salal...

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