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Poet Sanchez to be missed

SAN ANTONIO — Chicano activist and poet Trinidad Sanchez Jr. passed away at age 63 on July 30 as a consequence of two strokes suffered 12 days earlier. Sanchez was best known for his poem “Why...

Where are those oil profits going? Corporate greed

'It’s a blowout.” No, silly — not the tire on your car. “It’s a blowout,” said a Wall Street money expert about Exxon Mobil’s second- quarter oil profits. You want to hear something crazy? Exxon Mobil...

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Neighbors challenge bio research lab

BOSTON — Opponents of a proposed bioterrorism research laboratory at Boston University Medical Center won a victory last week when a state judge ruled that the basis used to approve the so-called Biolab was “arbitrary and...

AFL-CIO to target 200 races

CHICAGO (PAI) — The AFL-CIO is putting money and, more importantly, people into 200 political races this fall, including “every statewide U.S. Senate and governor’s race,” federation Political Director Karen Ackerman says. In an Aug. 8...