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Bush cuts wages in hurricane disaster area

September 16, 2005

Flood victims, rebuilders will be working for ‘poverty wages’ Commentary No one can say the Bush administration doesn’t have clear priorities. While the job of picking up the bodies of victims so they can be laid...

Clean-up begins, but anger wont wash away

September 16, 2005

Gulf region still gripped by crisis NEW ORLEANS — Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated this region, and as they begin a valiant struggle to rebuild, people here are still fuming that the Bush administration was...

By George, hes done it: Clooneys movie takes on McCarthyism past and present

September 9, 2005

Actor-director George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” won critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival last week for its portrayal of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow and his fight against the anticommunist paranoia sweeping 1950s...

Musicians rally to save cultural mecca

September 9, 2005

“They call it Stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad,” East Texas bluesman T-Bone Walker sang in 1947. “Wednesday’s worse, and Thursday’s oh so sad.” In that same year, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday performed “Do...

Republicans fleeing Bush on Arctic drilling issue

September 9, 2005

Two dozen House Republicans, including three committee chairmen, have directly opposed the Bush administration’s effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling by sneaking it through the budget approval process. “An effort...