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Rhode Island budget coalition scores win

July 25, 2003

Around the country, state budgets have been in crisis. Rhode Island’s budget is no different, with a deficit in the hundreds of millions – a big number for a small state. Newly-elected Republican Gov. Don Carcieri...

The scandal of vanishing vacation time

July 25, 2003 By David Eisenhower

From Berlin, New York Times correspondent Richard Bernstein reports on what he presents as the question of the day: Have Germans “become too addicted to leisure time for their own good?”

We need a national health plan for all

July 25, 2003

Workers Correspondence The other day, I went to the drug store to fill five prescriptions for my wife and me. My total cost was $10. There were two other retired workers in line with me, also...

UAW fights for pay, health care, pensions

July 25, 2003

Negotiations on a new contract between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers have begun. Most of the speculation in the news media has focused on the so-called “dire straits” that the auto companies...

Groups break U.S. blockade of Cuba

July 25, 2003

It’s been a big week for those seeking an end to the 42-year-old U.S. blockade against socialist Cuba. Openly defying the U.S. embargo, the 14th U.S./Cuba Friendshipment caravan arrived in Havana on July 19 with 80...