News
National Parks seriously compromised by cuts
June 23, 2006WASHINGTON, D.C. — Visiting a national park this summer? If so, you should expect reduced law enforcement protection, longer emergency response times, fewer lifeguards, scaled back water and trail safety patrols, dirtier campgrounds and other visibly...
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OAS rebuffs U.S. proposals
June 23, 2006Foreign ministers from the Western Hemisphere met June 4-6 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for the 36th General Assembly of the Organization of the American States (OAS). Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick represented the United...
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LETTERS
June 23, 2006Remembering Howie Howie Goldberg, my father, was a maverick salesman of the Daily World, which was the forerunner on the East Coast of the People’s Weekly World. He wore an apron with Daily World logo and...
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Banner day for Washington health care activists
June 23, 2006Workers’Correspondence United for National Health Care and Whatcom County (Wash.) Jobs with Justice held a successful Health Care Day of Action in Whatcom and Skagit counties June 7. During evening rush hour, 70 people participated at...
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CLUW fights for family leave
June 23, 2006Big business tried to keep the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) from becoming law in 1993. Now the business lobby is trying to dismantle one of this era’s most family-friendly reforms, says the Coalition of...
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