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Sea Stories and Other Dirty Lies, Movie Review: In the Loop
August 10, 2009Movie Review: In the LoopI am grateful to the British facility with language for not having any tattoos anywhere on my skin, and for one of the best movies of recent times. In 1961, I got...
Read moreNC Racial Justice Act passes, awaits governor’s signature
August 10, 2009Original source: The North Carolina Racial Justice Act passed in the state Senate this week and now heads to Gov. Bev Perdue for her signature. As Facing South previously reported, the N.C. Racial Justice Act is...
Read moreWorkers tell AT&T: Dont Wal-Mart us
August 9, 2009ST. LOUIS — 'AT&T is leading the race to the bottom,' Communications Workers of America Local 6300 President Kevin Kujawa said as some 150 CWA members picketed the AT&T tower here Aug. 6. 'In this economy,...
Read moreLegislative leader to sue Calif. governor over cuts
August 9, 2009California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, announced Aug. 7 that he will sue Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over nearly $500 million in line-item cuts the governor made last week in signing a budget revision...
Read moreDon’t let right-wing astroturfers scare Americans into silence
August 8, 2009Opinion ST. LOUIS — While a healthy, public debate around health care reform positively reinforces our proud democratic traditions, heckling, yelling, disrupting and even assaulting those you disagree with doesn't. But that's exactly what's happening here...
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