2009
Give Americans a real health care choice, say advocates
April 9, 2009'Don't cut the heart out of President Obama's health care reform plan' is the message many people will be delivering to their members of Congress this week as part of a national effort to push for...
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Binghamton and beyond: A deeper look at those who just snap
April 9, 2009A series of mass killings in recent weeks has given some the impression that things are falling apart in this country. On March 29, eight people were murdered in a nursing home in Carthage, N.C. There...
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Shoe-repairman, veteran, bobbin boy, Communist: 93 years with a twinkle in his eye
April 8, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Hovan has been reading this newspaper, and its predecessors going back to the Daily Worker, since the early 1930s — in the depths of the Great Depression. It’s been a key to...
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Slash Afghan casualties, boost civilian aid, aid agencies say
April 8, 2009President Barack Obama came away from NATO’s 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France earlier this month with commitments from several European NATO members to send a total of 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan. The new European...
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Peace groups hail Obamas vow to abolish nukes
April 8, 2009Leaders of the struggle for nuclear disarmament hailed President Obama’s speech April 5 in Prague, committing the United States to work for the total abolition of nuclear weapons, the first American president ever to make that...
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