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American people can end this war Democrats push for Iraq pullout
June 23, 2006WASHINGTON — The toll of U.S. war dead in Iraq hit 2,500 last week and Democratic lawmakers took to the floor of the Senate and House to demand that the war end and the troops be...
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Coalition urges water board to stop agribusiness pollution
June 20, 2006SACRAMENTO, Calif. — While municipalities, industry and other water users are subject to water quality standards when they discharge waste water into rivers and streams, agribusiness in the Central Valley and other farming areas of California...
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Forest Service auctions timber from national forest
June 16, 2006MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — To the dismay of environmentalists, the U.S. Forest Service auctioned off timber from a remote, burned-over section of a national forest June 9 in the first such sale since the Bush administration...
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LETTERS
June 16, 2006Please deliver a story The strong-legged mail carrier who delivers to our home tells me that things are getting tougher for employees at the U.S. Postal Service. It seems that management has taken to using every...
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Guantanamo disgrace
June 16, 2006“No question,” President Bush said June 14, “Guantanamo sends, you know, a signal to some of our friends — provides an excuse, for example, to say, ‘The United States is not upholding the values that they’re...
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