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January 29, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Californians say ‘Tax the rich’ The California State Assembly is going where the money is to plug the gaping hole in the state’s budget. Polling in the state showed that 61 percent of residents...

Black youth killed by New York police

January 29, 2004

NEW YORK – A young African American couple was tragically torn apart as a bullet from a New York Police Department officer’s gun ended the life of 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury Jr. Stansbury had been walking from...

Lawmaker threatens Dallas on Patriot Act

January 29, 2004

DALLAS – In an effort to intimidate the Dallas City Council to not go on record against the excesses of the USA Patriot Act, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) threatened the city’s ability to obtain Homeland Security...

Iowa lucha contra Bush

January 23, 2004

DES MOINES, Iowa – Los 122.000 votantes demócratas de Iowa que desafiaron el frío la noche del 19 de enero para asistir a las reuniones del Partido Demócrata para escoger su candidato presidencial fue una muestra...

Lucy Flato, labor activist, writer

January 23, 2004

Lucille Burman Flato died peacefully Jan. 7 in San Francisco, of complications from a massive stroke. Born in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. 21, 1922, to Daisy Whitney and Frank Burman, Lucy Flato moved to New York...