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June 24, 2005LEXINGTON, Ky.: Save the mountains Coal operators have a vision: A handful of them get rich beyond their wildest dreams by robbing Appalachian residents of their dreams and their lives. Almost 200 environmental activists, residents and...
Read moreWorkers describe roadblocks to getting union
June 24, 2005News Analysis NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A congressional forum here on reforming the labor laws that govern union organizing drives spotlighted the obstacles employers put in the way of workers seeking to join a union. The...
Read moreFarmers know bull when they hear it
June 24, 2005Conventional wisdom says a conference of 1,400 members of the Future Farmers of America (FAA) at Penn State University in rural State College would be a safe bet for President Bush to sell his plan to...
Read moreIraqis intent on ending occupation, rebuilding country
June 24, 2005Violence in Iraq has escalated sharply since a new government was named in early May, with an average of 30 Iraqi civilians killed every day. Joblessness, power cuts and lack of sanitation and health care remain...
Read moreRacist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings
June 24, 2005On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...
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