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AFL-CIO tells Bush and Congress: Get real on the economy

January 31, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

The AFL-CIO charged in a Jan. 27 report that, despite President Bush’s rosy claims, the economy is in worse shape than it was two years ago when measured by all the key indicators important to working...

Letters

January 31, 2003

Inhumanity of war Perhaps no bit of literature is more damning on the inhumanity of war than All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, a German war veteran, about World War I, the...

Editorials

January 31, 2003

Rogue leader“ ... many other [suspected terrorists] have met a different fate. Put it this way … they are no longer a problem …” – George W. Bush, State of the Union address With a wink...

Human Rights Watch slams Bush record

January 31, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

In its criticism of the Bush administration, Human Rights Watch warns, “Leadership [in the field of human rights] requires more than a big stick and a thick wallet.

Layoffs hit P&W workers

January 31, 2003

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut continues to reel from layoffs, as 600 Pratt & Whitney (P&W) workers join the ranks of 2,800 state workers who received pink slips in the last week. Daily rallies by thousands of...