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  • Budgets of mass destruction

    Budgets of mass destruction

    February 19, 2004 By David Eisenhower

    After factoring out the Social Security surplus and adding in a pricey supplemental appropriation for the war in Iraq, the federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2004 could reach $700 billion.

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  • Marchers denounce mental health cuts

    Marchers denounce mental health cuts

    February 19, 2004

    SAN ANTONIO – Marching from historic San Fernando Cathedral to Travis Park United Methodist Church on Jan. 15, nearly 180 mental health consumers, family members, clergy and other mental health advocates brought attention to the fact...

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  • New bill aims to defend womens rights

    New bill aims to defend womens rights

    February 19, 2004

    National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy and other women’s rights leaders held a Washington, D.C., press conference Jan. 22, the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, to announce the introduction of the Freedom of...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    February 19, 2004

    WASHINGTON: Defense contractors owe $3 billion in taxes While swilling at the Pentagon trough of contracts, 27,000 private companies, or 14 percent of the total, did not remit their workers’ federal taxes (deducted from their paychecks),...

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  • Breakthrough in struggle for same-sex marriage rights

    Breakthrough in struggle for same-sex marriage rights

    February 19, 2004

    While the Massachusetts Legislature adjourned Feb. 13 without having added an amendment to the state’s constitution banning same-sex marriage, the nation’s attention swung to the other coast when San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex...

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