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20,000 Marylanders say: Save Our Schools

February 13, 2004

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Holding neon light sticks in the chill darkness and placards that read “Fund Public Schools,” parents, students, teachers and other school workers marched on the State House Feb. 9 to demand that Gov....

White House sold war with smoke & mirrors

February 13, 2004 By Susan Webb

Which is worse, a president who doesn’t know what’s going on and is manipulated by others, or a president who launches a war knowingly using false or misleading information to sell it to the American people?...

National Clips

February 12, 2004

NEW YORK CITY: ‘Don’t use our name’ for Patriot Act Just blocks from the crater where the World Trade Center once stood, the New York City Council voted Feb. 4 to oppose the USA Patriot Act,...

Michigan voters focus on job losses

February 12, 2004

YPSILANTI, Mich. – Disappearing jobs. That is the issue that primarily motivated nearly 150,000 Michigan voters to participate in the Democratic presidential caucus. Since George W. Bush took office, 140,000 manufacturing jobs were lost and the...

Maine voters turn out in big numbers

February 12, 2004

PORTLAND – Doug Wall attended his first-ever Democratic nominating caucus on Feb 8. Politics has never been his thing, he says. He had grown up believing that his government does the right thing, but now he...