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Health care is pivotal in 2004

January 9, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

The 2004 elections are a dramatic backdrop to the fight back against the Bush Medicare wrecking ball.

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January 9, 2004

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National Clips

January 9, 2004

OLYMPIA, Wash.: Ballot measure opposes nuclear waste dump A petition campaign to enable voters to decide to halt the federal government from dumping nuclear waste in this state garnered 280,000 signatures of registered voters. A coalition...

Philly schools hurt by GOP schemes

January 9, 2004

News Analysis Even before George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, Philadelphia was being set up for school privatization and similar measures now encompassed in the federal law. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R) had...

Black, Latino leaders hit voter remap bias

January 9, 2004

AUSTIN, Texas – A three-judge panel Jan. 6 upheld a districting plan conceived by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) to add eight or more Republicans to the Texas congressional delegation. But Black and Latino leaders...