U.S.
Utility faces probes after tragic gas pipe blast
September 14, 2010OAKLAND, Calif. - After a gas pipe explosion devastated a residential neighborhood in a San Francisco suburb Sept. 9, killing at least four residents, the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident while state regulators...
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Right-wingers frenzied to save tax cuts for rich
September 14, 2010Several House and Senate Republicans are complaining that GOP Minority Leader John Boehner fell for a trap laid by President Obama when he said last weekend that, given no other option, he would vote for extending...
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New study reveals discriminatory mortgage practices
September 13, 2010California's Latino and African American homeowners experience twice the rate of foreclosures than that of non-Hispanic whites, a recent report found.
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Boehner blinks on Bush tax cuts for the rich
September 13, 2010House Minority Leader John Boehner says he'll vote for Obama's tax plan.
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CHEERS to Marx, JEERS to negativism!
September 13, 2010CHEERS to the political foresight of comic Groucho Marx, who anticipated the 2009-10 Republican Congressional delegation with his great song, "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It!"
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