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MAIN News Archives for May 2004

 05/30 -  Will the Times investigate its flawed WMD reporting?
 05/30 -  Group pushes Tax Fairness Pledge
 05/30 -  'Together We Read' tackles Horace Kephart classic, "Our Southern Highlanders"
 05/30 -  N.C. workers suffer in global economy
 05/29 -  Our dangerous distance between the private and the commons
 05/29 -  Bowles opposes trade pact
 05/28 -  New reports question war on terror
 05/28 -  Ashcroft assailed on terror warning
 05/28 -  Kerry: U.S. is stronger through alliances
 05/28 -  Thomas Wolfe House re-opens
 05/27 -  An interview with ex-Marine Jimmy Massey
 05/27 -  Is U.S. military officer corps too political?
 05/27 -  Fatal Error: Lies of the New York Times
 05/27 -  Holding political ads accountable
 05/27 -  Coalition fears major voting problems this fall
 05/27 -  New website tracks state grants to nonprofits
 05/26 -  New York Times admits flaws in pre-war coverage
 05/26 -  Report: Latino voters could decide election
 05/26 -  Study contradicts claim of liberal bias on NPR
 05/26 -  UNCA axes plan to turn urban forest into a parking lot
 05/25 -  WLOS general manager steps down
 05/25 -  Author Tom Clancy speaks out on war
 05/25 -  U.S. intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq War
 05/25 -  With gas prices soaring, Congress eases pain for big SUV owners
 05/24 -  Waynesville ex-U.S. Marine speaks out on Iraq
 05/24 -  Wall Street puts its money on Bush
 05/24 -  Has time come for ordering cable channels a la carte?
 05/24 -  N.C. GOP spells out lottery opposition
 05/23 -  Gen. Zinni: Neo-cons should take responsibility for Iraq debacle
 05/23 -  Democrats get money, corporations get tax breaks
 05/23 -  Is mutual fund reform dead?
 05/23 -  Frank Rich reviews Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11'
 05/23 -  Asheville watershed tour policy questioned
 05/22 -  Wesley Clark on the neo-cons' misreading of history
 05/22 -  Demand grows for e-voting paper trail
 05/22 -  Lawyers tell how evidence was withheld in N.C. death-penalty case
 05/22 -  N.C. GOP to oust Morgan as leader?
 05/22 -  More Americans going organic -- with their lawns!
 05/21 -  Hawks eating crow
 05/21 -  Oregon lawyer held in Spain attack released
 05/21 -  Slow Food revives rural traditions in WNC
 05/20 -  Secrecy surrounds latest purge of Florida voting lists
 05/20 -  Moderates, conservatives question neo-con policy in Iraq
 05/20 -  Michael Moore has a lot to teach modern politicians
 05/20 -  Double standards: Corporate media define story-lines for Kerry, Bush campaigns
 05/20 -  Is the city doomed?
 05/19 -  Kerry, Nader discuss ending corporate welfare
 05/19 -  Electronic voting's gamble with democracy
 05/19 -  White House trumpets programs it tried to cut
 05/19 -  Kerry, Nader meeting today
 05/19 -  Is EPA scuttling air-quality rules around U.S. parks?
 05/19 -  Leave no rich child behind
 05/19 -  Edwards on ticket could attract working-class voters
 05/19 -  N.C. legislators hear pleas for death penalty moratorium
 05/19 -  Essay: Iraq isn't another Vietnam -- it's worse
 05/18 -  With 44 million Americans lacking health insurance, common sense says it's time to act
 05/18 -  Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" premieres at Cannes, but will America get to see it?
 05/18 -  Media's flights of fiction less damaging than skipping the story
 05/18 -  The secret campaign to rig the tax system for the super-rich and put the burden on the rest of us
 05/17 -  WCU report: Tourism's limited economic impact
 05/17 -  Hawks having second thoughts
 05/17 -  Caldwell County men convicted of vote-buying
 05/17 -  Rumsfeld and the roots of torture
 05/17 -  Kurt Vonnegut sees "cold turkey" ahead
 05/17 -  Franklin bans all new billboards
 05/17 -  How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib
 05/17 -  Smokies do poorly in eco-tourism report
 05/16 -  Ashcroft fishes out 1872 law to muzzle Greenpeace
 05/14 -  Co-speaker Black floats financing plan
 05/13 -  Budget cuts threaten WNC's natural treasures
 05/13 -  Surge in corporate profits not trickling down to workers
 05/13 -  Polk County fiber network launched
 05/13 -  Iraq prisoner abuse puts spotlight on private contractors
 05/13 -  Cigarette tax-hike advocates face powerful foes
 05/13 -  Kerry backs tobacco buyout plan
 05/12 -  Is Ted Koppel a Commie?
 05/12 -  WNC lawyers cited for assisting low-income citizens
 05/12 -  Florida voter purge, here we go again
 05/12 -  Playing Bin Laden's game
 05/12 -  Public access TV moves forward in Buncombe
 05/11 -  The secret ties between Bush and Saudi Arabia
 05/11 -  Will anti-war voters help Bush get re-elected?
 05/11 -  WNC media companies need public access TV to grow
 05/11 -  Alcoa swaps land for dam re-licensing
 05/10 -  Is Disney's link to Saudi Arabia the real reason for censoring Michael Moore?
 05/10 -  The Sinclair Syndrome: When the media and government join forces
 05/10 -  Edwards still on the stump, getting rave reviews
 05/09 -  "Vanity logging" -- cutting your neighbor's trees for a better view
 05/09 -  Discount drug cards create confusion
 05/09 -  How to get a legislator's ear
 05/09 -  In Raleigh, Madeleine Albright says U.S. foreign policy at all-time low
 05/09 -  Special-interests' "wish list" for short session
 05/09 -  Lobbyists line up in Raleigh for legislature's short session
 05/08 -  Proposed UNCA research center includes sports arena
 05/07 -  Rumsfeld impeachment articles filed
 05/07 -  Asheville hires Rocky Mount police chief
 05/07 -  Cell towers in the Smokies?
 05/07 -  The military-mass media complex
 05/06 -  Why you can't trust medical journals anymore
 05/06 -  Time to reconsider Jefferson's call for universal service?
 05/06 -  Trickle-up tax cuts for N.C.?
 05/06 -  Bills aim to reduce child abuse in N.C.
 05/06 -  "Come on down South, John Kerry!"
 05/06 -  WNC leads state in green power use
 05/05 -  Ban on Avery County quarry upheld
 05/05 -  Michael Moore responds to Disney censorship
 05/05 -  Disney blocks Michael Moore film critical of Bush
 05/05 -  Sinclair decision a slap in the face of fallen soldiers' families
 05/05 -  Family-friendly immigration reform touted
 05/05 -  Easley proposes small-business tax cut
 05/04 -  Sinclair and the death of local news
 05/04 -  Teen activists a rising force against smoking
 05/04 -  N.C. groups seek No Child Left Behind changes
 05/03 -  Who's to blame for brutalizing Iraqi prisoners?
 05/03 -  The land of vanishing votes
 05/03 -  Wal-Mart: Merchant of Shame
 05/03 -  Ag commissioner candidates raise obscure farming issue
 05/02 -  Sinclair critics to fight license renewal
 05/01 -  Municipal broadband and economic salvation?
 05/01 -  Sinclair's cynical agenda
 05/01 -  Citizens gather at WLOS to protest Sinclair decision
 05/01 -  Cheney's avoidance of Vietnam service becomes an issue

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