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MAIN News Archives for April 2004

 04/30 -  Cheney praises Fox News
 04/30 -  What Sinclair doesn't want you to see
 04/30 -  WLOS viewers not allowed to see honor roll of war dead
 04/29 -  Censorship at WLOS-TV?
 04/29 -  WNC Spring Herb Festival this weekend
 04/28 -  High court weighs Bush's power vs. rights of citizens
 04/28 -  The never-ending Great Smokies biological inventory?
 04/28 -  Senator blasts "chickenhawks"
 04/28 -  Stories differ on perks to state official
 04/28 -  Test for new N.C. teachers may be dropped
 04/27 -  Jim Lehrer of PBS admits error
 04/27 -  An interview with Helen Caldicott
 04/27 -  Oak tree disease may be in N.C.
 04/27 -  Why your cable bill is soaring
 04/27 -  Campaigns clash over military service
 04/26 -  Ad industry's "death spiral of disrespect"
 04/26 -  Howard Zinn: "What do we do now?"
 04/26 -  Amazon destruction rising fast
 04/26 -  Washington's big appetite for pork
 04/26 -  History shows mlitary draft's focus on fairness
 04/25 -  WNC churches preach tolerance to Kansas protesters
 04/25 -  Mass protest against government control of women's bodies
 04/25 -  Cycle of suffering: N.C. nursing homes
 04/25 -  While corporate taxes fall in N.C., workers' taxes rise
 04/24 -  Coalition memo predicts violent future for Iraq
 04/24 -  Raleigh leaders study "smart growth" in Florida city
 04/23 -  New study examines Bush tax cuts through 2004 and beyond
 04/23 -  Survey: Majority of U.S. public still believes Iraq behind 9/11
 04/23 -  Asheville council limits public input
 04/23 -  Impatience growing over cost of war
 04/23 -  Critics challenge Kerry's military experience
 04/23 -  Study: Exercise staves off cognitive effects of aging
 04/23 -  N.C. mulls pet food tax hike to slow euthanasia
 04/23 -  Penland School honors Pearl Grindstaff
 04/22 -  Hard-swinging Wal-Mart takes it on the chin
 04/22 -  How the media blew the Iraq story
 04/22 -  With reforms failing, U.S. headed for another election fiasco
 04/22 -  Woman fired for photo of U.S. coffins
 04/22 -  Turning craft to cash in WNC
 04/22 -  Did Thomas Jefferson predict Iraq?
 04/21 -  More money needed for Iraq War
 04/21 -  Winston-Salem considers moratorium on big-box stores
 04/21 -  Thomas Wolfe home to reopen
 04/21 -  Eight lanes for I-26 driven by politics
 04/21 -  Kansas preacher to protest "Laramie Project" play at WCU
 04/21 -  WNC's disappearing forests
 04/21 -  Soldiers return home to cheering crowds
 04/20 -  How to earn $3.5 trillion and pay no taxes
 04/20 -  Embracing TV-Turnoff Week
 04/20 -  Attention deficit linked to TV viewing
 04/20 -  N.C. launches anti-tobacco ads aimed at teens
 04/20 -  Thinking the unthinkable?
 04/20 -  Negroponte, new ambassador to Iraq, has history of deception
 04/19 -  Are Saudis tampering with U.S. election?
 04/19 -  Unasked questions about secret evacuation of Saudis after 9/11
 04/19 -  Easley campaign accuses Locke Foundation of GOP ties
 04/19 -  Candidates for Asheville police chief to meet public
 04/19 -  Fighting the wrong war
 04/18 -  Pre-9/11 files show warnings were dire and persistent
 04/16 -  Voters and Wal-Mart
 04/16 -  How the NY Times turned a 9/11 question into a joke
 04/16 -  Reducing waste and making oil -- is TDP the next "big thing"?
 04/16 -  Who will vote for Nader?
 04/16 -  New book details Cheney's war "fever"
 04/16 -  Sierra Club battles hostile takeover
 04/16 -  Smokies in real danger, report says
 04/15 -  Arthur Schlesinger on "Bush's War"
 04/15 -  When soldiers begin to question war
 04/15 -  How the PBS "NewsHour" changed history
 04/15 -  Edwards doing a "delicate dance"
 04/14 -  Survey: Consumers getting fed up with ads
 04/14 -  Cleavage prompts UNC-TV to pull Emma Goldman documentary
 04/13 -  How Condi's cover-up caved in
 04/13 -  In politics, Wall Street ignores history
 04/13 -  Asheville -- haven for recovery and hope
 04/13 -  Sudden Oak Death could spell disaster for South
 04/13 -  Shrinking the middle class to enrich the few
 04/13 -  Corporate tax collections rise in N.C.
 04/12 -  WNC food guide, workshop scheduled
 04/12 -  Soldiers tested for depleted uranium exposure
 04/12 -  How the IRS subsidizes the super-rich
 04/12 -  Howard Dean on Ralph Nader
 04/12 -  The silent president?
 04/10 -  We are TV
 04/10 -  Jury to hear charges of "predatory" practices by Clear Channel
 04/08 -  Fact-checking Rice's testimony
 04/08 -  Criminal probe of ex-Taylor aide sought
 04/08 -  Rogue billboards illuminate gay-straight divide in Asheville
 04/08 -  Rebels take control of Afghan city
 04/08 -  Growing GOP dissent on Iraq
 04/08 -  The jobs jitterbug
 04/07 -  Richard Florida: Bush policies push "creative class" abroad
 04/07 -  Cable ruling may allow Internet subscribers to choose ISP
 04/07 -  Asheville gadfly bugs Charles Taylor
 04/07 -  "Sudden Oak Death" could spell disaster for WNC forests
 04/07 -  Confederate flag raise ire in McDowell County
 04/07 -  New Asheville Starbucks opens to protests
 04/07 -  Statewide tour aims to boost public campaign financing option
 04/07 -  Pakistani president: Iraq war undermining fight against Al Qaeda
 04/07 -  A look at a second Bush term
 04/06 -  The mercury pollution scandal
 04/06 -  Gutting the Clean Air Act
 04/06 -  Decorated Buncombe County deputy remembered with fondness
 04/06 -  On the brink of anarchy in Iraq
 04/06 -  Buried Pentagon report details US failures in Afghanistan
 04/06 -  Progressive groups try to match coordination of conservatives
 04/06 -  Former Nixon attorney John Dean calls for Bush impeachment
 04/05 -  Teaching artists to thrive
 04/05 -  Voluntary program preserves 7,000 acres in Watauga County
 04/05 -  Neighbors succeed in creating conservation easement in Sapphire Valley
 04/05 -  Farming takes root again in Mitchell and Yancey counties
 04/05 -  Iraq War Dead - a sacrifice of small towns
 04/03 -  Why Scalia insists on voting in Cheney case
 04/02 -  Prosecuters expanding probe of CIA leak
 04/02 -  Rising road costs raise questions about paving company monopoly
 04/02 -  Rising highway costs prompts probe into Atlanta-bassed paving company
 04/02 -  Tax forms hamper judicial election fund
 04/02 -  FBI whistleblower says U.S.knew terrorists might use airplanes
 04/01 -  White House has the last laugh
 04/01 -  Credibility will shape race for White House
 04/01 -  Latino advocacy group in Haywood awarded grant
 04/01 -  Why Fox has higher ratings but CNN has more viewers
 04/01 -  Ralph Nader at 70 still speaks to the young
 04/01 -  N.C. House panel urges more support for children of working poor
 04/01 -  FDA loosens policy on health claims
 04/01 -  Rice speech on missile defense was scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001