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Company demands rate hike for new coal plant
April 12, 2010Despite claims coal energy is cheaper than green energy, Consumers Energy wants to impose an 8.5 percent rate hike to pay for a new coal-fired plant in Michigan.
Read moreBill to divest from arms makers faces test
April 12, 2010The fate of a bill passed by the University of California at Berkeley Student Senate to divest from two U.S. firms providing military support to Israel's occupation of Palestine will likely be decided April 14.
Read moreEvergreen Reds urge fight for jobs, tax reform
April 11, 2010Members of the Communist Party of Washington State - they could be called "Evergreen Reds" - gathered in convention here April 3.
Read moreN.Y. to slash literacy funding
April 9, 2010Though illiteracy here and across the U.S. continues to be a growing social problem, efforts to combat it are under attack by the city and state legislature, under the guise of reigning in runaway spending.
Read moreCourt strikes blow against equal Internet access
April 9, 2010A blow was struck to equal access to the Internet by a federal appeals court this week.
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