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Teacher funding added to war spending bill
July 1, 2010Lawmakers who want to prevent thousands of teacher layoffs but oppose spending more money on the war in Afghanistan face a dilemma in Congress this week.
Read moreGov’t spying on citizens? ACLU map shows Bush years full of it
June 30, 2010Despite what anti-Obama conspiracy theorists, tea partiers and other various anti-government groups say, government political spying was rampant during the Bush-Cheney years.
Read moreNYC Pride: Celebrating and militant
June 30, 2010Manhattan's LGBT pride march, the largest and oldest in the nation, and one of the largest in the world, capped off a the June 19-27th Pride Week.
Read moreCalifornians feel benefits of federal health law
June 30, 2010Californians are already beginning to feel the benefits of the new federal health care law, a newly released progress report by Health Access reveals.
Read moreSan Antonio city council says ‘no’ to Arizona-type law
June 29, 2010The San Antonio City Council sat for 3½ hours late last week to hear speakers urge passage of a controversial resolution urging the Texas state legislature to oppose an immigration law similar to the much criticized...
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