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Letters

May 10, 2002

I quit! I smoked cigarettes for 60 years, but when I read in the PWW that more people died from smoking than from all the wars we’ve been in, I quit cold turkey. Betty DumovichGreat Falls...

Free the 9/11 detainees Nine months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, hundreds of detainees, mostly Arab or Muslim men, are still imprisoned by federal authorities despite no evidence of their connection with terrorism. The issue...

Special prosecutor to investigate police

May 10, 2002

CHICAGO – After decades of protests, Judge Paul Biebel, chief of the Cook County Criminal Courts, has ordered a full investigation of the use of torture by key members of the Chicago Police Department. Biebel announced...

Letters

May 3, 2002

Unlike any other The PWW is like no other newspaper in the world. Powerful on world news coverage, along with beautifully written, thoughtful readers’ reactions to topics as diverse as smoking. This publication, always personal, always...

Editorials

May 3, 2002

Another shot at unions We started to say “they’re at it again.” But that misses the point: they are still at it. 'They' are the Bush administration, whose attacks on the labor movement began even before...