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Getting out the vote

November 12, 2004

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — We were sent to canvass in this community near Cleveland. At the Slavic Village polling place Juan and I were monitoring on Election Day, I got into a discussion with the lone...

Obama wins Senate seat in landslide

November 12, 2004

CHICAGO — Democrat Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois on Nov. 2 in the biggest landslide in state history. Obama received 70 percent of the vote in defeating ultra-right-wing commentator and Republican...

New film focuses on Iraq war vets, casualties

November 12, 2004

“Arlington West,” a recent documentary from filmmakers and longtime peace activists Sally Marr and Peter Dudar, is a sobering, enlightening and objective look at how the war in Iraq has affected the lives of young soldiers...

National Clips

November 12, 2004

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J.: National Guard plane strafes school As cleaning workers were preparing Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School for students, Nov. 3, they heard what they thought were footsteps on the roof. They called 911...

Pittsburgh struggles to save its mass transit

November 12, 2004

PITTSBURGH — Demanding full state funding to maintain bus and trolley service, a coalition of unions, workers, businesses, educational institutions and local politicians organized a march here Nov. 4 to save the Allegheny Port Authority (PAT)....