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MAIN News Archives for June 2004

 06/30 -  How accurate is "Fahrenheit 9/11"?
 06/30 -  Will new Cuban trade embargo backfire?
 06/30 -  Kerry pledges immigration reform
 06/30 -  Billboard firms win big in General Assembly
 06/30 -  Local author shares story of domestic violence and recovery
 06/29 -  "Fahrenheit 9/11" will play Hendersonville
 06/29 -  Judge pressing N.C. to increase support for poorest schools
 06/28 -  Gore: "Our Founders and the Unbalance of Power"
 06/28 -  Linux adds media-player in pursuit of Microsoft
 06/28 -  "Fahrenheit 9/11" attracts viewers across N.C.
 06/28 -  Court affirms detainees' access to U.S. courts
 06/28 -  WNC farm a popular stop for local produce
 06/28 -  Bush, Kerry differ on health care
 06/28 -  The truth about 'objective' documentaries
 06/28 -  Raleigh church seeks to smite homosexuality
 06/28 -  Too bad Cheney took the bait
 06/25 -  Crossing the red line on global warming
 06/25 -  The truth about drug companies
 06/25 -  A retired bishop's challenge to the policies of Bush
 06/25 -  A big blow to Big Media
 06/25 -  Embedded patriots?
 06/25 -  Rising tide of nuclear weapons?
 06/25 -  Michael Moore's editorial opinion
 06/25 -  Heavy trucks avoid I-26 weigh station, make driving risky for others
 06/25 -  Billboard industry's 'sweet deal' in Raleigh
 06/25 -  Novelist Tom Robbins to read at City Lights in Sylva
 06/25 -  Poll: Most Americans feel Iraq War was a 'mistake'
 06/24 -  Senate approves $416 billion for Pentagon
 06/24 -  Bush interviewed in CIA leak probe
 06/24 -  Supreme Court allows Cheney to keep energy records secret
 06/24 -  Election panel mulls ban of "Fahrenheit 9/11" ads
 06/24 -  Penland School featured in "Our State" magazine
 06/24 -  "Fahrenheit 9/11" stirs controversy in Hendersonville
 06/23 -  Efforts to stop Nader grow
 06/23 -  Wal-Mart goes to trial
 06/23 -  Obesity epidemic requires action
 06/22 -  The writing of "Our Southern Highlanders"
 06/22 -  Did Fox News spin the 9/11 Commission Report?
 06/22 -  $1.4 million grant to clean up industrial sites for new WNC businesses
 06/22 -  Kerry would raise minimum wage to $7
 06/22 -  Poll shows Bush lead slipping in N.C.
 06/22 -  Experts cast doubt on "new intelligence" linking Iraq and Al Qaeda
 06/22 -  Charley Reese: "Vote for a man, not a puppet"
 06/21 -  Will Al Qaeda launch attack to ensure Bush re-election?
 06/21 -  Supreme Court strikes blow against patients' rights
 06/21 -  Is Bush playing into Osama bin Laden's hands?
 06/21 -  The myths of malpractice legal 'reform'
 06/21 -  Latino small businesses growing in WNC
 06/20 -  Reshaping N.C. for better girth control
 06/20 -  Will Michael Moore's facts check out?
 06/18 -  Pioneer who kept the Web free is honored
 06/18 -  Understanding the right-wing "noise machine"
 06/18 -  U.S. House votes to keep snowmobiles in Yellowstone, Grand Teton parks
 06/18 -  Bill for $35 million wellness center at UNCA clears N.C. House
 06/18 -  Horace Kephart's rebirth in the WNC backcountry
 06/18 -  Granny D files for U.S. Senate race
 06/18 -  The perfect storm of political films
 06/18 -  Timber sales on public lands on the rise
 06/18 -  N.C. foresters search for sudden oak death disease
 06/17 -  Pentagon seeks OK to spy on Americans
 06/17 -  Many middle-class Americans living without health insurance
 06/17 -  Retired military officers, diplomats call for Bush's defeat
 06/17 -  Shell Oil chief says he's "very worried" about climate change
 06/16 -  Panel finds no evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda, 9/11
 06/16 -  Original 9/11 plot envisioned hijacking 10 planes
 06/16 -  Fox News reviews "Fahrenheit 9/11"
 06/16 -  League of Women Voters drops support for paperless e-voting
 06/15 -  John Ashcroft, the worst attorney general in U.S. history?
 06/15 -  Ecusta plant shutdown taught regulators a lesson
 06/15 -  Study finds news audiences increasingly polarized
 06/15 -  Deregulation and the culture of cheating
 06/15 -  Public utility claims Enron gouged $1.1 billion
 06/15 -  Considering the costs of obesity
 06/15 -  Halliburton accused of inflating Iraq costs
 06/15 -  Battle for pork-barrel bridges heats up in Congress
 06/15 -  Proposal to cap N.C. gas tax bumps into asphalt lobby
 06/14 -  Knowledge held hostage -- 'fair use' in the digital age
 06/14 -  Clinton, Bush rise above politics in White House meeting
 06/14 -  Is Asheville watershed plan a 'trojan horse' for commercial logging?
 06/14 -  Can Wal-Mart be reformed?
 06/14 -  Ivins: The day the Constitution died
 06/14 -  Immigration laws dim college hopes for N.C. students
 06/14 -  Media picture of Reagan era is incomplete
 06/14 -  Lawmaker seeks Cheney secrets
 06/14 -  N.C. hospital pays $196,000 for two staff trips
 06/14 -  State's pioneering judicial campaign fund at risk
 06/14 -  Obesity concerns focus on children
 06/12 -  Voter registration push honors civil rights workers
 06/11 -  Putting corporations on the couch
 06/11 -  Why payroll taxes are higher
 06/11 -  Progressive caucus forms in N.C. Democratic Party
 06/11 -  Death-penalty moratorium gaining steam
 06/10 -  Will Kerry make media reform a campaign issue?
 06/10 -  Anti-globalism protesters disrupt Durham rush hour
 06/10 -  Former top-secret Rosman base finds new mission
 06/09 -  New book tells how the CIA "caved under pressure"
 06/09 -  Highlands to launch local TV show
 06/09 -  Poems of blood and anger
 06/09 -  Clear Channel settles FCC complaints for $2 million
 06/08 -  Business claims top N.C. legal settlements for 2003
 06/08 -  Are drug cards a step toward eliminating Medicare?
 06/08 -  In honoring Reagan, Democrats downplay differences
 06/08 -  Journalism of wealth and the invisible working-class
 06/08 -  WNC journalist wins law center award
 06/08 -  Reading the tea leaves in CIA leak case
 06/08 -  Taxpayer lawsuit yields big return for lawyers, law students
 06/08 -  Murder suspect found dead in Great Smokies
 06/07 -  Who is Leo Strauss? And why do NeoCons revere him?
 06/07 -  "No-collar" businesses transform downtown Asheville
 06/07 -  Senators back low-power radio
 06/07 -  Savoring the flavors of Appalachia
 06/07 -  CIA vet dissects Tenet's resignation
 06/07 -  Supreme Court lets Mexican trucks roll
 06/07 -  Ronald Reagan's politics of passion
 06/07 -  Latino group says N.C. should do more to protect construction workers
 06/05 -  Clear Channel encounters static in Durham
 06/04 -  Enron tapes anger lawmakers
 06/04 -  Mitchell newspaper claims health official's hiring is illegal
 06/04 -  Diploma mills come under scrutiny
 06/04 -  How to spot hemlock infestation by woolly adelgids
 06/04 -  Remembering the heroes of Watergate
 06/04 -  GOP targets Kerry's wealth
 06/04 -  Understanding the "right-wing noise machine"
 06/04 -  Are Americans waking up to Iraq blunder?
 06/04 -  Taylor's "Road to Nowhere" draws national attention
 06/03 -  Howard Dean: Put the brakes on e-voting
 06/03 -  Out-of-state group to air ads for Burr
 06/03 -  N.C. incentives favor big businesses over small
 06/03 -  Bush consults lawyer for CIA leak investigation
 06/03 -  CIA director Tenet resigns
 06/02 -  It happened here first -- exporting America's most notorious prison officials to Iraq
 06/02 -  In 1904, Horace Kephart came to the mountains to "begin again"
 06/02 -  "Fahrenheit 9/11" to open June 25 in U.S.
 06/02 -  Clean Water Trust Fund protects key WNC watersheds
 06/01 -  Debut of drug cards dogged by confusion
 06/01 -  Memo suggests Cheney knew about Halliburton's no-bid contract
 06/01 -  Robin Hood in reverse
 06/01 -  Deep South still cool to Kerry
 06/01 -  Class-action lawsuit fairness?
 06/01 -  Can rural N.C. grow its own jobs?