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D for dud

January 13, 2006 By Carrie Maloney And Beatrice Lumpkin

We received the following response to our Nov. 19-25 column, “Medicare Part D is a dog,” by Beatrice Lumpkin. This letter points out that the automatic enrollment in Part D of all Medicaid patients has some...

Jury to Wal-Mart: No free lunch hour

January 13, 2006

OAKLAND, Calif. (PAI) — There’s an old right-wing economists’ saying, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well, a jury here has turned that around and told Wal-Mart that there’s no such thing as a...

Returned Abramoff donations erase national debt

January 13, 2006

Lawmakers scramble to shed trillions in tainted cash Politicians in Washington hurried today to dump trillions of dollars worth of campaign donations from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, giving the money to the Treasury Department and all...

Labor opposes Alito nomination

January 13, 2006

WASHINGTON (PAI) — The nation’s two labor federations have joined the broad coalition opposing President George W. Bush’s nomination of federal judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a letter to senators, AFL-CIO President...

World Notes

January 13, 2006

Nigeria: Prison reform approved A plan to reform abysmal prison conditions in Nigeria has been approved by the federal government. About 45,000 inmates are currently held in 277 prisons across the West African country, reports the...