National
Six more weeks of winter?
February 10, 2006Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from his secure, undisclosed location to make television appearances following the president’s State of the Union Address, but then immediately returned to his hiding place — indicating that America may be...
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Shift to service jobs
February 10, 2006Dramatic effects for the U.S. working class are being wrought by the sustained shift to service from production occupations. The shift is powered by both globalization and technological revolution. One effect of this shift in the...
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N.Y. gov. shorts schools
February 10, 2006NEW YORK — Boasting that he was delivering tax cuts for working people and increased funding for schools, Republican Gov. George Pataki submitted his final executive budget Jan. 18 in Albany. The proposal was immediately condemned,...
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Texans protest Bush school visit
February 10, 2006When George W. and Laura Bush visited Townview Magnet School in Dallas, Feb. 3, local media gushed over Bush’s no-funding, test-emphasizing No Child Left Behind education flim-flam and his pretense that he favors science education, but...
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Coretta Scott King: Freedom fighter
February 10, 2006Coretta Scott King personified everything women have struggled to achieve in the movement for equality, emancipation and freedom. Her life mothered the understanding of generations who fought and continue to fight for civil rights, all people’s...
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