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The Obama budget and the environment: How cap-and-trade works
April 2, 2009Did you know that the US already has a cap-and-trade system? Passed as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by George H.W. Bush, the cap on sulfur...
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Head Red goes to Boulder for a lalapalooza conference
April 2, 2009BOULDER, Colorado -– Some may call it Conference-a-palooza. Film critic Roger Ebert calls it “The Conference on Everything Conceivable.” But its more conventional name is 'The Conference on World Affairs' and it's hosted by The University...
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‘We the People’ to ‘King of the World’: ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ …a letter from Michael Moore
April 2, 2009Friends, Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors -- a company that's spent more years at #1...
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Unity dialogue held in New Haven
April 2, 2009As white supremacist anti-immigrant hate groups increase their targeting of New Haven and adjacent East Haven, a dialogue was held this week addressing the need for unity of workers of all racial and national backgrounds.
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Single-payer health reform bill introduced in Senate
April 2, 2009Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer health reform bill, the American Health Security Act of 2009, in the U.S. Senate last week. The bill is the...
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