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Rally urges bank to modify home loans now
August 21, 2009CHICAGO — Elitha Brown has been a home childcare provider here for 17 years. She employs three assistants and watches over six children at her home business. In May 2005, Brown suffered a neck and back...
Read moreMercury contaminates fish nationwide, study shows
August 21, 2009Scientists have found mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released yesterday.
Read moreDoris Brin Walker, defender of civil rights, free speech, dies at 90
August 21, 2009SAN FRANCISCO ― Doris Brin Walker, an attorney famous for her brilliant and tenacious defense of political activists including Angela Davis ― and earlier, Smith Act and other McCarthy-era political defendants ― died Aug. 13 following...
Read moreIt’s time for united action
August 20, 2009COMMENTARY One of the most insidious forms of racism today is the current right-wing campaign to bring down the presidency of Barack Obama. Turning reality on its head seems the tactic of choice to achieve this...
Read moreLewis Lubka (Fargo, ND) explains why health reform is important
August 20, 2009Read more