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  • EDITORIAL: Sept. 11th  5 years later

    EDITORIAL: Sept. 11th 5 years later

    September 8, 2006

    Most Americans remember where they were when airplanes slammed into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Most remember the alarm, anger and sadness they felt when they realized that this was a massive terrorist...

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  • Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

    Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

    September 8, 2006

    Several leading women’s organizations, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, are vigorously protesting the latest scheme by GOP President George W. Bush and his Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to downsize and outsource much of her...

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  • Gary teachers win nine-day strike

    Gary teachers win nine-day strike

    September 8, 2006 By Paul S. Kaczocha

    GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...

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  • Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers

    Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers

    September 8, 2006 By Art Perlo

    For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.

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  • CIA spins spiders web vs. Cuba, Venezuela

    CIA spins spiders web vs. Cuba, Venezuela

    September 8, 2006

    U.S. intelligence head John Negroponte announced Aug. 18 the creation of a new Central Intelligence Agency mission to oversee intelligence operations in Venezuela and Cuba at the strategic level. J. Patrick Maher, a 32-year CIA veteran...

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