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LETTERS
April 14, 2006Fraud & insurance companies Worker compensation insurance companies charge high premiums and do not want to take care of a truly injured worker. They would rather pay out tens of thousands of dollars to attorneys to...
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Wal-Mart blocks port security
April 14, 2006A lobby group dominated by Wal-Mart has successfully blocked efforts in recent years to increase security measures in U.S. ports wherever those measures might cut into the company’s profits, a report delivered to members of Congress...
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LETTERS
March 31, 2006Fight for women’s rights After reading “S. Dakota Passes Anti-Woman Law” (PWW 3/11-17), I can relate only too well. As a single woman now living barely above the federal poverty level, thanks to a job layoff...
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Burst Alaskan pipeline damages tundra
March 31, 2006A leak in an Alaskan pipeline operated by BP (British Petroleum) has resulted in one of the worst oil spills to afflict the region since the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. News reports say more than...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
March 31, 2006DETROIT: 50,000 say, ‘We are not criminals’ Over 50,000 Mexican, Guatemalan, Honduran and El Salvadoran and other immigrant families, carrying their homeland flags, jammed in front of the Federal Building, March 27, chanting, “We are not...
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