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Texas holds best secret election money can buy
March 17, 2006HOUSTON — Texas held its March 7 primary election in virtual secrecy. Only 5.3 percent of the electorate voted in the Republican primary and 4.1 percent in the Democratic primary. Pundits marveled over how much money...
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Vermont city elects Progressive mayor
March 17, 2006BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bob Kiss, the Progressive Party candidate for mayor, swept to a surprise victory here March 7. Running against a Democrat, Republican and two independents, Kiss, a state representative, confounded pundits and pulled an...
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Peace groups to Congress: Open up debate on Iraq
March 17, 2006National peace organizations are pressing Congress to open up debate on getting the U.S. out of Iraq. With Bush insisting on “staying the course” and “not believable any more,” Congress is “the only body left to...
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Katrina homeless march on White House
March 17, 2006WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina survivors marched from Capitol Hill to the White House, March 14, stopping at FEMA along the way, to demand that President Bush reverse FEMA’s decision to evict 10,000 hurricane evacuees from hotels...
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WHATSREALLYGOOD
March 17, 2006Campus antiwar group fights spying The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of University of California–Santa Cruz Students Against the War, demanding that the Department of Defense immediately release information related to its...
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