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  • Stickup at the gas pumps

    Stickup at the gas pumps

    August 26, 2005 By Susan Webb

    CHICAGO — Drivers here went into sticker shock as gasoline prices jumped 40 cents over the past week. A gallon of gas in Chicago averaged $2.82 on Aug. 23, up nearly a dollar from a year...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    August 19, 2005

    Bush in a hidey hole It has been an uplifting week of joy and jubilation seeing the war criminal George Bush pinned down at his hidey hole in Crawford, Texas, by a righteously angry and sorely...

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  • Senate blocks military aid to Indonesia

    Senate blocks military aid to Indonesia

    August 19, 2005

    News Analysis The U.S. Senate voted last month to keep restrictions against financial aid and training for the Indonesian military. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have pushed for full restoration of...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    August 12, 2005

    Bog project unwise I have been traveling through Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan this summer. Every place I have been, every place I look, we are destroying our most precious ecosystems — the bogs and wetlands. In...

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  • Labor Update

    Labor Update

    August 12, 2005

    Two big wins for workers in North Carolina North Carolina ranks as the state in the U.S. with the lowest percentage of union members, but that status may be ripe for change if two recent organizing...

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