National
LONESOME HOBO ECONOMICS Should the bankers be hanged?
July 22, 2009Should the bankers be hanged? Their reckless betting of other people's money turned a cyclical economic crisis into a near meltdown not seen since the Great Depression.
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COMMENTARY Narrow thinking on health care
July 22, 2009HR 676, the single-payer bill introduced by Michigan Rep. John Conyers, is a fine piece of legislation and it is understandable that those who have worked hard for its enactment are passionate about this cause. What...
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Obama: Families in urgent need of health reform
July 21, 2009Families are in desperate need of health reform, President Obama said in remarks at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, July 20. In his statement, after meeting with the hospital's administrators, doctors and nurses, the president...
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Roger Rader: 1929-2009
July 21, 2009TACOMA, Washington – Roger Rader’s family and friends gathered in the front yard of the family house here July 18 to remember his irascible personality but also his unwavering, lifelong fight for trade union rights, civil...
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Deaths among Latino workers rise
July 21, 2009The number of Latino workers who die on the job has risen 76 percent since 1992, even as the total number of workplace deaths has declined, federal statistics show. In 1992 the number of reported Latino...
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