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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...

R.I. janitors, hotel workers demand justice on Labor Day

September 9, 2005

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s capital city has been recently lauded as “America’s Renaissance City,” with several new downtown development projects — upscale hotels, a high-end shopping mall and a handful of relocated corporate offices. City...

From abroad, offers of aid for Katrina victims

September 9, 2005

Offers of hurricane relief aid have poured into the U.S. from more than 90 nations, rich and poor alike. Cuba and Venezuela were the first to offer help, although Cuba is not included in the list...

Cuba has a better way on hurricanes

September 9, 2005

As dead bodies still floated in flooded New Orleans and masses of hungry, thirsty survivors, mostly poor and Black, were deposited at far-off sports arenas, Cuba’s National Assembly issued a declaration of solidarity Sept. 1 and...

Rehnquist, states rights and New Orleans

September 9, 2005

The chief justice of the United States, William Rehnquist, was a man with a conservative political agenda and a judicial philosophy of state-centered federalism. There will be attempts to sugarcoat his life, legal work and judicial...