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MAIN News Archives for April 2005

 04/30 -  Bolton nomination questioned by another Powell aide
 04/30 -  How ExxonMobil is fighting global warming
 04/29 -  MSNBC covers up Gordon Liddy's hate speech
 04/29 -  Ivins: Dumb Democrats let GOP run wild
 04/29 -  WPVM launches spring on-air fund drive
 04/29 -  Woodpecker discovery vindicates politician who saved a SC swamp
 04/29 -  Sympathy for Tom DeLay
 04/29 -  Pro-drilling politicians are living in the past
 04/29 -  Bush is blowing smoke on energy bill
 04/29 -  NC Senate considers cigarette tax hike
 04/28 -  Teaching the world's kids with $100 laptops?
 04/28 -  NC poll favors in-state tuition for non-citizens
 04/28 -  A match made in petroleum
 04/27 -  Molly Ivins on God and the filibuster
 04/27 -  CIA reports 'botched hunt for Iraq's WMD'
 04/27 -  The Constitution and the filibuster
 04/27 -  'Christian' radio plan doubted after free permits sold for $800,000
 04/27 -  Living 'outside the box' -- one escapee's year without TV
 04/27 -  The underside of 'Justice Sunday' preachers
 04/27 -  Donations link DeLay, ethics panel
 04/27 -  More in NC go without health coverage
 04/27 -  Texas school board approves Bible class
 04/26 -  Will NC rein in lobbyists?
 04/26 -  Preaching democracy abroad, Bush-Cheney throttles it at home
 04/26 -  Big Oil turns up heat on Venezuela and Colombia
 04/26 -  Will religious conservatives' demands on government spark backlash?
 04/26 -  Secret hiding places for US wealth
 04/26 -  What's the matter with liberals
 04/26 -  Poll: Americans oppose filibuster rule change
 04/26 -  Jim Wallis, author of 'God's Politics,' on 'Justice Sunday'
 04/26 -  When liberals rule the world
 04/26 -  If Senate shuts down, who's to blame?
 04/25 -  Incomplete news undermines American values
 04/25 -  Role reversals mark filibuster struggle
 04/25 -  Time to turn off the TV
 04/24 -  The hysteria of "Justice Sunday"
 04/23 -  Bush agenda bogged down?
 04/23 -  Trio expelled from Bush speech for bumper sticker on car
 04/23 -  A 'dim bulb' energy policy?
 04/23 -  Church leaders criticize Frist's link to telecast
 04/22 -  New bankruptcy law hits South and West hardest
 04/22 -  Is PBS under the thumb of right-wingers?
 04/22 -  Eco-friendly lumber, at a store near you
 04/22 -  Energy bill called 'shortsighted'
 04/22 -  Taylor associates get probation
 04/22 -  Bad air, pest and people imperil Great Smokies
 04/21 -  Time magazine rehabilitates Ann Coulter
 04/21 -  Duke Power's use of mountain rivers questioned
 04/21 -  Have Americans been seduced by war?
 04/21 -  America's vanilla landscapes mean more animals, fewer species
 04/21 -  A dialogue on Wal-Mart
 04/21 -  The do-nothing energy bill
 04/21 -  Filibuster battle's hidden agenda?
 04/21 -  Have Democrats lost their religion?
 04/21 -  Progress Energy mulls nuclear expansion in NC
 04/20 -  New pope called 'a disaster for the world and for Jews'
 04/20 -  Merger critics seek telecom regulation
 04/20 -  Three judges are flash points in Senate clash
 04/20 -  Attack on WNC hemlocks spreads
 04/20 -  NC consumer-protection law cited as national model
 04/20 -  Democrats: Homeland Security omits right-wing threats
 04/20 -  Environmentalists to protest Bush's Earth Day visit
 04/19 -  Frist's bad faith
 04/19 -  GOP senator breaks ranks to delay Bolton vote
 04/19 -  Home-grown terrorism still a threat
 04/19 -  Exposing incompetent incumbents
 04/19 -  How US carmakers missed the boat
 04/19 -  When media watchdogs don't bark
 04/19 -  Conservatives oblivious to activist judges in their midst
 04/19 -  Senator eyes bill to protect access to birth-control
 04/18 -  A radical in the White House
 04/18 -  How rich is too rich for democracy?
 04/18 -  Overreaching on judges
 04/18 -  Will Tom DeLay's piety save him?
 04/18 -  Small investors are eligible for stock settlements
 04/18 -  Ralph Reed tied to Indian casino scam?
 04/18 -  Maryland stands up to Wal-Mart
 04/18 -  Noted activist for war victims killed in car bomb attack
 04/18 -  DeLay's vision for an 'independent' judiciary
 04/18 -  Democrats sided with credit-card firms on bankruptcy
 04/18 -  Tobacco is king in lobbying money
 04/17 -  DeLay's Malaysia trip raises questions
 04/17 -  GOP lawmaker may vote against UN nominee
 04/17 -  Unregulated America: The Right's Judicial Agenda
 04/16 -  Energy bill's hidden provision would weaken Clean Air Act
 04/15 -  Carter: Rich nations 'don't give a damn' about poor
 04/15 -  Tax breaks for wealth shift burden to middle-class
 04/15 -  Molly Ivins on Tax Day, 2005
 04/15 -  The rise of disaster capitalism
 04/15 -  Sharing the tax burden
 04/15 -  Frist to use religious stage on judiciary issue
 04/15 -  Will Rudolph conviction lead to more clinic attacks?
 04/14 -  FCC says broadcasters must disclose video news releases
 04/14 -  In NC, 57,000 may lose Medicaid coverage
 04/14 -  Conservatives near lock on US courts
 04/14 -  Ex-intel chief calls Bolton 'kiss up, kick down sort of guy'
 04/14 -  John Bolton versus democracy
 04/14 -  DeLay apologizes for remarks about judges
 04/14 -  Black citizens speak out on racism in WNC
 04/14 -  Molly Ivins: Connect the Dots
 04/14 -  Rudolph driven by anti-abortion, anti-gay views
 04/13 -  GOP gets a lesson in conservatism
 04/13 -  Forget the feds, states tackle global warming
 04/13 -  Non-citizens could get UNC tuition deal
 04/13 -  UN pick charged with bullying intelligence analyst
 04/12 -  Social Security debate obscures health-care crisis
 04/12 -  Man tangles with Raleigh over motorcycle in tree
 04/12 -  Right-wing war on checks and balances
 04/12 -  Washington's new climate of scandal management
 04/12 -  Progressives not angry enough, says new head of CNN
 04/12 -  Videos contradict accounts of GOP convention protests
 04/12 -  Walter Jones confronts Richard Perle
 04/12 -  GOP opens campaign against Hillary
 04/11 -  Pisgah Legal Service faces effort to undermine its vital mission
 04/11 -  Walter Jones confronts Bush adviser on war
 04/11 -  TV news buries Iraqi civilian deaths
 04/11 -  Probe of lobbyist shines light on DeLay
 04/11 -  Kerry urges citizens to defend the right to vote
 04/09 -  Iraqi protesters demand US withdrawal
 04/09 -  Theocracy and the culture of death
 04/09 -  Eco-firms see growing profits
 04/09 -  Culture war hits local pharmacy
 04/08 -  Arizona may limit cities' charging rent for cable's use of right of ways
 04/08 -  Packing the courts with ideologues?
 04/08 -  Bullying linked to TV viewing
 04/08 -  With vote set in NC Senate, Easley says lottery bill needs fine-tuning
 04/07 -  Author of Schiavo political memo revealed
 04/07 -  Film industry's economic impact lags in WNC
 04/07 -  Filibuster a key tool in separation of powers
 04/07 -  Ex-smokers concerned over Jennings' cancer
 04/07 -  Politics in red robes -- Bush goes to Rome
 04/07 -  Valerie Plame case -- all over but the jailing?
 04/07 -  As China sews, textile jobs leave US
 04/07 -  Bankruptcy reform hits women hard
 04/07 -  How NC House members voted on lottery
 04/06 -  A third DeLay trip under scrutiny
 04/06 -  NC House votes in favor of a lottery
 04/06 -  Connecticut to challenge No Child Left Behind
 04/05 -  Senator suggests political link to violence against judges
 04/05 -  Author Saul Bellow is dead at 89
 04/05 -  Peter Jennings of ABC says he has lung cancer
 04/05 -  What's up with oil prices?
 04/05 -  When liberals and conservatives unite
 04/05 -  Citizen coalition opposes sightseeing helicopter
 04/05 -  Senate primed for filibuster showdown
 04/05 -  Mass media -- government's most powerful weapon
 04/05 -  Medical reporting leads Pulitzer journalism awards
 04/04 -  Papal Legacy: Questioning Capitalism
 04/04 -  Backward Christian Soldiers?
 04/04 -  Verifying votes in NC
 04/04 -  Bush News Network
 04/04 -  Lottery battle lines drawn in NC
 04/04 -  Judicial aftershocks of the Schiavo case
 04/04 -  Nonprofits: unsung heroes of WNC economy
 04/04 -  WNC poverty law center faces legal battle
 04/03 -  Saving America from the neo-conservatives
 04/02 -  Search tool offers quality-of-care data on local hospitals
 04/02 -  Iraq War was the CIA's fault!
 04/02 -  Pope John Paul II dies at 84
 04/02 -  Lottery foes ready to fight
 04/01 -  Justice Department turns blind eye to Iraq fraud report