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MAIN News Archives for May 2005

 05/31 -  Illinois legislature bans violent, sexually explicit video games
 05/31 -  Death penalty moratorium passes NC House committee
 05/31 -  Ex-FBI official says he was 'Deep Throat'
 05/31 -  No room for dissent in the Catholic Church?
 05/31 -  Many retirees ineligible for prescription drug benefit
 05/31 -  Will Congress impeach Bush and Cheney?
 05/31 -  Fewer Latinos willing to serve in US military
 05/30 -  When we need news the most, we get infotainment
 05/30 -  Smithsonian to screen film that makes case against evolution
 05/30 -  Nantahala Gorge targeted for upscale subdivision
 05/30 -  What does America stand for?
 05/29 -  Return of the Ku Klux Klan?
 05/29 -  Why I'm joining the GOP
 05/29 -  The Bushification of PBS and NPR
 05/29 -  Talk radio attacks in-state tuition bill for immigrants
 05/28 -  Senate fails to heed warning-signs on Bolton
 05/28 -  A plan for real education reform?
 05/28 -  History shows dangers of politicized judges
 05/28 -  Miami-Dade election chief calls for new voting system
 05/27 -  A full day at Full Sun Farm
 05/27 -  DeLay PAC's treasurer broke law, judge rules
 05/27 -  The campaign against an independent press
 05/27 -  NC pastor apologizes for sacrilegious sign
 05/27 -  DeLay upset over TV cop show reference
 05/27 -  Joan Didion on the case of Theresa Schiavo
 05/27 -  Flushing out the Koran story
 05/27 -  When lies cost lives, who is accountable?
 05/27 -  Bush poster in Wilmington high school sparks uproar
 05/27 -  Burning crosses ignite revulsion in Durham
 05/26 -  GOP gunslinging in DC
 05/26 -  When holy texts are desecrated
 05/26 -  Mast General, conservationists join forces for land preservation
 05/26 -  As Texas goes, so goes the nation?
 05/26 -  'Nightline' to air list of war dead again
 05/26 -  US Rep. Charles Taylor featured in Moscow Times
 05/26 -  NC leaders rethink truck weights
 05/25 -  Will Social Security 'reform' make elders dependent on the young?
 05/25 -  US Senate weighs apology to American Indians
 05/25 -  'Freedom fries' protester regrets slap at French
 05/25 -  Dream of economic mobility slips away for many Americans
 05/25 -  American dream slipping away for many
 05/25 -  NC-DOT's distortions win praise from feds
 05/25 -  Does TV news' obsession with urban crime fuel racism?
 05/25 -  Vets sue Rumsfeld over healthcare cuts
 05/25 -  'Freedom fries' protester regrets slap at French
 05/25 -  Moving healthcare up on the US agenda
 05/25 -  Bush's boomerang
 05/24 -  Using the media for a magic trick
 05/24 -  WNC church posts sign saying Koran 'needs to be flushed'
 05/24 -  Filibuster revered by Tar Heel conservatives
 05/24 -  Opinion: Vote yes on stem cells
 05/24 -  Pension law keeps workers, shareholders in the dark
 05/24 -  Unseen Images: How US media sanitize the war in Iraq
 05/24 -  Pat Tillman's family blasts Army propaganda
 05/24 -  NC taxpayers pay for highway damage from heavy trucks
 05/24 -  Democrats call for investigation of CPB chair
 05/24 -  Senate moderates prevail; filibuster saved
 05/23 -  Making PBS as 'fair and balanced' as Fox
 05/23 -  Do Americans prefer a leader who's 'strong and wrong'?
 05/23 -  Limbaugh versus Moyers
 05/23 -  The Rumsfeld stain
 05/23 -  Battle grows over religious messages in public places
 05/23 -  Post repeats false claim about PBS ombudsman
 05/23 -  NC lawmakers grant weight exemptions to heavy trucks
 05/23 -  DOT flouted its rules for wood-chip trucks
 05/22 -  Emboldened by Taco Bell win, farmworkers tackle fast-food chains
 05/21 -  Freecycle: Everything from a printer to a pail of dirt
 05/21 -  Can hybrids save US from foreign oil?
 05/21 -  NC lawmakers debate high cigarette tax
 05/20 -  Newspaper guild chief under fire for comments about attacks on journalists
 05/20 -  US networks continue to ignore 'smoking gun memo'
 05/20 -  When librarians say 'No' to the FBI
 05/20 -  'Why I am not an environmentalist'
 05/20 -  Workers comp bill sparks big battle
 05/20 -  Leaked report reveals US torture of Afghan prisoners
 05/19 -  US charges accused terrorist with illegal entry
 05/19 -  Waiting for a second Newsweek retraction
 05/19 -  Despite sloppiness, Newsweek didn't fabricate Koran story
 05/19 -  After 35 years, TV thief to go free
 05/19 -  Reid: Bush, GOP trying to "rewrite the Constitution"
 05/19 -  Poll: Voters angry with Bush, Congress
 05/19 -  Right-wingers at CPB take aim at NPR
 05/19 -  Mushroom cloud over a Bush judicial nominee
 05/19 -  Galloway and Castro challenge US foreign policy
 05/19 -  The rising economic cost of the Iraq War
 05/18 -  Arts and crafts as far as the eye can see in WNC
 05/18 -  Why have US media ignored 'smoking gun' memo?
 05/18 -  Researchers say water systems at risk for lead
 05/18 -  British lawmaker scolds senators on Iraq
 05/17 -  Duke Power revisits nuclear plant site in Yadkin River Valley
 05/17 -  Confessions of an economic hit man
 05/17 -  As military realigns bases, the South wins
 05/17 -  Have US media become puppets of power?
 05/16 -  Bush appointees aim to cut news funding at NPR
 05/16 -  Weakening the US military in a dangerous world
 05/16 -  NY Review of Books to publish 'smoking gun' memo
 05/16 -  The media's independence problem
 05/16 -  Moyers speaks on right-wing attack against PBS
 05/16 -  Will other companies default on pensions?
 05/15 -  Political split leaves Waynesville church sadder, grayer
 05/15 -  GE enlists Rep. Taylor to delay Hudson River cleanup
 05/15 -  Moyers defends PBS, takes aim at 'radical right'
 05/15 -  No smoking talk rises in NC
 05/15 -  US begins to notice British intelligence memo
 05/15 -  Walter Jones on Iraq: 'Congress must be told the truth'
 05/15 -  With editor's ouster, US catholics expect more papal scrutiny
 05/15 -  Mixing faith and science in Kansas
 05/15 -  Media reformers convene in St. Louis
 05/13 -  UNCA taps WNC native as new chancellor
 05/13 -  Chief Justice Scalia?
 05/13 -  Guaranteed low wages
 05/13 -  Pentagon lists base closings
 05/13 -  Did Bush slander FDR with Yalta statement?
 05/13 -  NC considers restaurant smoking ban
 05/13 -  The fight for media reform
 05/12 -  Panel sends Bolton vote to full Senate with no endorsement
 05/12 -  US cities setting up wireless networks
 05/12 -  Produce stands yield hope for NC farmers
 05/12 -  Key GOP senator to oppose Bolton for UN ambassador
 05/12 -  America's unheralded water clean-up
 05/12 -  A progressive tax revolt?
 05/12 -  Ivins: The "smoking gun" memo
 05/12 -  The making of a corporate judiciary
 05/11 -  United Airlines workers feel betrayed
 05/11 -  Is United Airlines bankruptcy a sinkhole for taxpayers?
 05/11 -  Limits of pulpit politics tested in NC
 05/11 -  ACLU challenges NC cohabitation law
 05/11 -  The Bolton endgame
 05/11 -  EPA kills lead paint rules
 05/11 -  Seymour Hersch: Iraq 'moving towards open civil war'
 05/10 -  East Waynesville Baptist minister resigns
 05/10 -  Appeals court protects Cheney's secret energy task force
 05/10 -  Abu Ghraib's message for rank and file soldiers
 05/10 -  New Florida law sparks gun rights debate
 05/10 -  Immigration forum tonight will tackle several issues
 05/10 -  Editorial: Mixing of politics and religion is in dangerous territory
 05/10 -  Religious leaders dismayed over Waynesville church politicization
 05/09 -  Briefers, leakers and the newspapers who enable them
 05/09 -  Bush's war on the press
 05/09 -  Struggle over voter ID evokes a bitter past
 05/09 -  Key GOP senators hold power in filibuster fight
 05/09 -  Gas at $4 a gallon?
 05/09 -  Ousted church members not leaving quietly
 05/09 -  New tax break helps drug companies reap billions
 05/06 -  Waynesville minister ex-communicates members who don't support Bush
 05/06 -  Garrison Keillor: Confessions of a radio listener
 05/06 -  Bush reverses Clinton ban on roadbuilding in US forests
 05/06 -  Former DOT planner to discuss agencies practices
 05/06 -  Kansas school board challenges evolution, again
 05/06 -  NC high court protects citizens seeking public records
 05/05 -  The rising power of the Christian right
 05/05 -  Proof that Bush "fixed" the WMD threat emerges in UK
 05/05 -  Herb Festival this weekend a gathering for gardeners and beginners
 05/05 -  Air Jesus: Radio stations of the Cross
 05/04 -  Driver's license bill targets non-citizens
 05/04 -  Nearly $100 million in Iraq reconstruction money is missing
 05/04 -  When powerful people say really dumb things
 05/04 -  Freedom of the press in US in decline, analysts say
 05/04 -  Politicizing Public Broadcasting
 05/03 -  In this economy, corporations win - workers lose
 05/03 -  NC Senate considers corporate tax cut
 05/02 -  Abu Ghraib whitewash protects higher-ups
 05/02 -  Anti-nuke activists rally at UN
 05/02 -  Bowing to corporate donors, GOP gives more power to federal government
 05/02 -  Supreme Court to review military recruiting law
 05/02 -  GOP increases pressure on PBS
 05/01 -  When will conservative champions of middle and lower classes step forward?