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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),...

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...

Ending needless deaths

February 13, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

Reversing the 1980s Reagan/Bush (and now the new Bush) ideological drive to make health care a market commodity will require a major political struggle.

Peoples Gas gives Chicagoans cold shoulder

February 13, 2004

CHICAGO – Miriam Cienfuegos, 26, had her gas turned off illegally Jan. 20. Under Illinois law, no person should be disconnected after Dec. 1. This latest shutoff, in the midst of a record low temperature cold...

Hospital VP tells packed hearing: Stock health comes first

February 13, 2004

PHILADELPHIA – When Tenet Healthcare System closed the historic Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital Dec. 18, the for-profit corporation did not ask the city or state for help or inform them of its plans because earlier...