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Texans face tough fights
January 4, 2011With their two-thirds GOP majority in the Texas House, the right wing hopes to curtail the right of Texas workers to join unions.
Read moreFood safety at risk with Republican slashes
January 4, 2011Republican plans to cut taxes for the rich and social spending for working families may threaten food safety, say supporters of a law passed in the lame duck session of Congress and signed into law this...
Read moreScott sisters freed!
January 4, 2011Jamie and Gladys Scott received the news on December 29 that their 16-year prison ordeal was over at last: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour commuted their double-life sentences and ordered them out of prison. They were originally...
Read moreJob creation nowhere on GOP agenda
January 3, 2011On a different planet, perhaps, an incoming Congress would now be plowing its way through the pages of jobs plans - but not this one.
Read moreBlizzard blues? Relax: it’s hotter than ever
December 28, 2010Guess what: this year is stacking up as one of the hottest since we humans started keeping thermometer-based temperature records 160 years ago.
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