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Philadelphia revs up to get out the vote

October 29, 2004

PHILADELPHIA — More than 100,000 people filled the center of the city here Oct. 25 to welcome Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and former President Bill Clinton. Just two days earlier in the same city the...

National Clips

October 29, 2004

SMITHERS, W.Va.: Coal miners picket for health care Members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from Ohio and Kentucky converged here Oct. 21 to walk the picket line with their brothers and sisters at...

Struggle continues to save trauma center

October 29, 2004

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is steamrolling towards the closure of the trauma center at the county’s Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. The trauma center handles 2,150 life-and-death emergencies yearly...

Know your rights! Vote Nov. 2

October 29, 2004

Any voting problems? Call election hotline 1-866-OUR-VOTE The disenfranchisement of millions of voters, many of them African American, in Florida in 2000 was criminal. Recent news reports show Republicans are plotting to do it again. This...

Bush squirms on missing Iraq explosives

October 29, 2004

George W. Bush is squirming to evade questions on why U.S. occupation forces in Iraq allowed 380 tons of high explosives, of the kind used in triggering nuclear explosions, to vanish from the Al Qaqaa weapons...