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Voter revolt could topple GOP: Labor spearheads fight for southern Senate seats
October 27, 2006Harold Ford, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Tennessee, is a “favorite son” of AFSCME Local 1733, a lawmaker with a 100 percent voting record in support of working families in the Memphis district he has...
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N.J. Supreme Court marriage ruling a step forward
October 26, 2006Statement by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force recognizes as a step forward today’s unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court decision holding that denying rights and benefits to same-sex...
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Bay Staters to vote on Iraq pullout
October 21, 2006AMHERST, Mass. — Voters here and in 138 other cities and towns across Massachusetts will be able to express their opinions on the Iraq war directly, for the first time, at the ballot box in the...
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No fruits for their labor
October 21, 2006Julia Preston, a New York Times reporter writing from Washington, D.C., describes pears rotting on trees in Lake County, Calif., owing to a lack of farm workers to pick them. Growers tell her 70,000 of the...
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Katrina may have been a harbinger
October 21, 2006A year after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, I thought I’d take a look back (like everyone else) and see how we as a country and as an industry have fared since. In...
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