News
Obama victory inspires hopes for November
March 26, 2004CHICAGO – Barak Obama’s historic, landslide victory in the March 16 Illinois Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate is a victory for independent, grassroots, coalition politics over money and machine politics. Obama now opposes millionaire Republican...
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Ohio outrage: Retirees shafted
March 26, 2004Weirton Steel Corp. announced this week that it would cut off health care benefits for its 10,000 retirees effective April 1. The Steubenville, Ohio-based company had petitioned the bankruptcy court to void its union contract with...
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Dallas takes a stand for civil liberties
March 19, 2004DALLAS – The Dallas City Council passed a resolution Feb. 25 condemning parts of the USA Patriot Act. The vote was the climax of more than two years of hard lobbying by Attorney Chip Pitts, the...
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Letters
March 19, 2004No more tiers I just got through reading “Grocery union leader assesses strike” on your website (PWW 3/13-19). This whole two-tier issue brings a few things to mind. On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted...
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Editorials
March 19, 2004A racist plot to steal the election? Are we in the beginning phase of a repeat of Florida’s 2000 election debacle? The New York Times lead editorial March 14, headlined “Florida as the Next Florida,” warns...
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