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  • Hiker rescued, hit with whopping bill

    Hiker rescued, hit with whopping bill

    August 16, 2009

    Opinion You are attempting a 17-mile hike on and around Mount Washington in New Hampshire. It’s late April but you face anything but a typical New England spring in the White Mountains. You have to keep...

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  • Netroots activists push for immigration reform

    Netroots activists push for immigration reform

    August 16, 2009

    PITTSBURGH PA - 'You all are the folks we need on the ground raising awareness about enforcement and detention in our immigrant system,' said Jacki Esposito, from the Detention Watch Network, here at the national Netroots...

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  • Thompson picks up endorsement of powerful NYC union

    Thompson picks up endorsement of powerful NYC union

    August 15, 2009

    NEW YORK — In a development with big implications for New York’s mayoral race, AFSCME District Council 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts announced the union’s decision to endorse Democrat Bill Thompson for mayor. The announcement came...

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  • Howard Dean tells Netroots: We’re going to win a public option

    Howard Dean tells Netroots: We’re going to win a public option

    August 15, 2009

    PITTSBURGH PA – 'The only health care reform worth doing is the public option. If you give away the public option you have no health care reform. It is a real choice for the American people,'...

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  • More job stimulus desperately needed

    More job stimulus desperately needed

    August 15, 2009

    Economic reports for July showing unemployment rising, retail sales falling and mortgage foreclosures at an all time high, touched off warnings from economists: only stronger action by the federal government to create jobs, extend unemployment benefits...

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