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Bernie Sanders elected to U.S. Senate
November 10, 2006BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bernie Sanders, the six-term independent congressman from Vermont, swept to victory in the race for U.S. Senate over Republican billionaire Rich Tarrant. In an election in which 70 percent of Vermonters said they...
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Anti-immigrant Republicans suffer election losses
November 10, 2006Commentary Time will tell what the impact of the Nov. 7 election on the immigration question will be. For the short term, it is worth noting that the Republicans lost at least 9 House seats held...
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Convert the military-industrial complex
November 10, 2006Maine’s congressional delegation recently sent around news releases proudly proclaiming that they helped to bring big money to our state. They said the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved, for fiscal year 2007, $3.4 billion for DDX...
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Labor board leaves workers in twilight zone
November 10, 2006The U.S. Department of Labor’s web site refers to the National Labor Relations Act, passed in 1935, as “labor’s Magna Carta,” extolling the fact that the act guarantees “workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.”...
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LETTERS
November 10, 2006Beat ’em at their own game With regard to your recent article on the NLRB decision that nurses are supervisors (PWW 10/7-13), I have this story to tell. In the early fifties my father, who headed...
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