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Free trade not what it seems

October 31, 2003

If you are a Kmart shopper or a rancher in Montana; a mom and dad wondering about what the kids will do once they finish school; or a retiree, worried about pension and health care, the...

Homeland Security arrests workers in raids

October 31, 2003

Under the cover of darkness, in well-synchronized raids, scores of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents took the night shift cleaning crews into custody at 60 Wal-Mart stores across the United States. In what The New...

National Clips

October 30, 2003

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.: More cities reject Patriot Act The grassroots movement to defend democratic rights and reject the Patriot Act now represents 25.5 million Americans as Bisbee, Ariz., Robbinsdale, Minn., and Urbana, N.Y. all declared their respective...

Senate rebukes Bush on Cuba

October 30, 2003

By a voice vote, the U.S. Senate last week approved an amendment to the Department of Transportation bill that would strip the government of all funding for the enforcement of its much-criticized ban on travel to...

Letters

October 24, 2003

More on nonpartisan elections It is important to examine the arguments for nonpartisan elections from every angle possible. Why, as some assert, would third party candidates receive more votes in nonpartisan elections? Simply because they are...