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Rich history, bright future: The Japanese Communist Party convenes

March 10, 2006

ATAMI CITY, Japan — It’s 3:55 a.m. A small truck rolls along the dark rain-slick streets of the Seiso District of Odawara City, a little hamlet propped on the coast of Sagami Bay southwest of Tokyo....

Gulf Coast Update

March 10, 2006

Bodies still being found Bush, lies and videotape Immigrant workers win back pay Act to extend jobless benefits

Oakland City Council OKs card-check measure

March 10, 2006

OAKLAND, Calif. — This city became the first to tell a cable company it must agree to recognize a union based on card check when the City Council late last month passed an ordinance requiring city...

Ending Iraq war is local election issue

March 10, 2006

CHICAGO — They say all politics is local. Although the Iraq war policy is played out on a federal level, the war spending and lives lost come back to a local level here. Alderman Ricardo Munoz...

Reflections on New Mexicos minimum wage fight

March 10, 2006

Commentary New Mexico has just gone through two major campaigns to enact a higher minimum wage law. One was a ballot referendum in Albuquerque in November 2005. The other was to pass a bill in the...