Tim Wheeler
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler
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Toolmaker-singer speaks out on ‘one person, one vote’
March 26, 2010Clint Jones, 82, has won fame with his "Clint's Dandy Digger," but his biggest passion is his belief that the Electoral College is unjust and should be abolished.
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Health care vote greeted as giant first step
March 22, 2010Grassroots health care coalition greets historic bill's passage.
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Tax the rich and create jobs now!
March 17, 2010With 35 percent unemployment in building trades and looming state budget cuts to education, labor unions and allies are demanding Wall Street banks pay their "fair share."
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Cop pleads guilty to massive murder cover-up during Katrina
March 8, 2010A New Orleans police lieutenant pleads guilty to spearheading a massive cover-up of murder and violence committed by police in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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African American Communist, WW II seaman, dies at 107
March 3, 2010Jacob Green, an African American seaman who braved Nazi U-boats while supplying the Soviet Union during World War II, and later served as chairman of the Communist Party of Maryland, died Feb. 19. He was 107.
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Teacher dies in hail of handgun bullets
March 1, 2010Killing of teacher Jennifer Paulson, 30, in Tacoma, Wash., following Colorado school shootings, spurs calls for tighter gun control.
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Black farmers settlement is “win for all family farmers”
February 23, 2010Willie Adams, a Black farmer in Greene County, Ga., hailed President Obama's $1.25 billion proposed settlement of a lawsuit by Black farmers demanding compensation for 80 years of racist discrimination in federal farm loan programs.
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Top state lawyers press Senate to OK consumer protection agency
February 9, 2010Attorneys general from four states called on the Senate to take the side of the people not the banks by approving a bill to create a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
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