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  • Crowd to Calif. gov:  Dont let our state go up in smoke!

    Crowd to Calif. gov: Dont let our state go up in smoke!

    July 16, 2009

    SAN FRANCISCO ― “Cutting services is not a quick fix. We need to tax the big oil companies, we need to restore the vehicle license tax. We need to increase revenues, we can’t live off cutting...

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  • COMMENTARY Hepatitis C silent but deadly

    COMMENTARY Hepatitis C silent but deadly

    July 16, 2009

    As we get older, we tend to get tired sooner than in our younger days and find ourselves tacking naps, we also have the occasional lapse of memory and joint pain. For most, these symptoms of...

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  • Community groups slam banks, back consumer agency

    Community groups slam banks, back consumer agency

    July 16, 2009

    ST. LOUIS -- Darryl Moore, a local ACORN member, pointed up at the Wells Fargo-Wachovia Securities building here on July 14 and told the World: 'They're sticking us up. They're using our tax dollars to pay...

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  • Senate committee advances health reform

    Senate committee advances health reform

    July 16, 2009

    A public option as part of health reform cleared a major legislative hurdle today, July 15, with passage of the Quality, Affordable Health Coverage for All Americans Act in the Senate HELP Committee. The bill would...

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  • Groups denounce Rush Limbaugh’s Sotomayor comments

    Groups denounce Rush Limbaugh’s Sotomayor comments

    July 16, 2009

    Right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh’s recent comment calling Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor a “racist” and lacking “intellectual depth” is sparking new movements in several places around the country. In Florida, TV ads are being...

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