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Senate hearing urges job creation
April 2, 2009WASHINGTON—Leading economists told the Senate, Mar. 30, that more, not less federal funds are needed to create millions more jobs to pull the nation out of the deepest recession since the Great Depression. They warned that...
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U.S. and Russia reopen nuke talks as peace movement warns of NATO war danger
April 2, 2009The United States and Russia announced jointly April 1 that they are aiming to put a new nuclear arms treaty in place before the existing one expires in December. The announcement caused a dramatic stir at...
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The Obama budget and the environment: How cap-and-trade works
April 2, 2009Did you know that the US already has a cap-and-trade system? Passed as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by George H.W. Bush, the cap on sulfur...
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Head Red goes to Boulder for a lalapalooza conference
April 2, 2009BOULDER, Colorado -– Some may call it Conference-a-palooza. Film critic Roger Ebert calls it “The Conference on Everything Conceivable.” But its more conventional name is 'The Conference on World Affairs' and it's hosted by The University...
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‘We the People’ to ‘King of the World’: ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ …a letter from Michael Moore
April 2, 2009Friends, Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors -- a company that's spent more years at #1...
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