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Christmas in August for big energy
August 26, 2005“Every industry gets their own little program. There’s pork in there for everybody.” — Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, quoted in the July 29 Washington Post. “It’s Christmas in August for big energy, and...
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LETTERS
August 26, 2005LETTERS Paul Robeson stamp After a long struggle, the U.S. Postal Service finally issued the Paul Robeson stamp in 2004. Today it is no longer available for purchase. At the postal store you can get the...
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EDITORIAL: Support the Northwest Airline strikers
August 26, 2005“If we had only stopped them at PATCO” became a common labor refrain in the union-busting years of the Reagan administration. Most in labor will now acknowledge that the lack of full labor solidarity was a...
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Cintas workers win environmental cleanup
August 26, 2005BRANFORD, Conn. — In a groundbreaking agreement, the Cintas Corp. has signed a pact with the state of Connecticut to stop using detergents which contain ingredients known as APEs (alkyphenol ethoxylates). APEs are toxic to fish...
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Power struggle in Connecticut
August 26, 2005NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The New Haven Board of Aldermen held a fiery hearing on July 25 regarding a proposal for a special hospital zone which will include a $430 million Cancer Center at Yale New...
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