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MAIN News Archives for January 2007

 01/31 -  Can the Democrats get it right on taxes?
 01/31 -  Judge forces NC to review role of doctors in executions
 01/31 -  As land-use conflicts grow, ecologists must work fast
 01/31 -  Scientists testify on White House censorship of global warming data
 01/31 -  Bad developers stick taxpayers with bill for poor planning
 01/31 -  Effort to deport teen is puzzling, if not outrageous
 01/30 -  Army drops two charges against officer who refused Iraq service
 01/30 -  Reasons to be wary of Duke's power plant proposals
 01/30 -  On global warming, what US can learn from Europe
 01/30 -  Ratings for NC rest homes debated
 01/29 -  FCC slammed for gutting local control over cable TV franchises
 01/29 -  CBS journalist pleads with network to air Iraq footage
 01/29 -  Why the FCC will get media ownership wrong again
 01/29 -  After 'hate-crime' melee, calm eludes NC Quaker school
 01/29 -  Key senator says Cheney delayed probe of pre-war intelligence
 01/29 -  Tourism up at WNC parks last year
 01/29 -  Draft report says climate change may be worse
 01/28 -  Clinton: Bush should pull troops from Iraq before leaving office
 01/28 -  US says Israel used cluster bombs in Lebanon
 01/28 -  A hard rain is falling on capitalism
 01/28 -  Buyer beware -- there are shades of 'green'
 01/28 -  Author warns of threat from radical Christian Right
 01/28 -  Should America return to the draft?
 01/28 -  Author of racial injustice memoir to speak in WNC
 01/28 -  US science teachers' org rejects 'Inconvenient Truth'
 01/28 -  Welcome to the new climate
 01/28 -  Living the green life
 01/27 -  A progressive prescription for NC
 01/27 -  Trade unions cite 'corporate greed' of private equity firms
 01/27 -  FCC to feel unfamiliar heat from Democrats
 01/27 -  Beyond net neutrality: Internet freedom
 01/27 -  Who was Milton Friedman?
 01/27 -  The Democratic Party at a crossroads
 01/27 -  'In a democracy, we are the deciders'
 01/27 -  Ex-Cheney aide reveals media tactics
 01/27 -  Gonzales replaces US attorneys with political loyalists
 01/27 -  Insurance rates for NC homes to rise 5.4 %
 01/26 -  Number of independent bookstores is growing
 01/26 -  Antiwar protesters target Congress
 01/25 -  A fickle dance with energy research
 01/25 -  Executions may stop in North Carolina
 01/25 -  Challenges mount to Bush's mercury pollution plan
 01/25 -  US industry hops on climate bandwagon
 01/25 -  War protesters to converge on Washington
 01/25 -  Study: Banks should warn of potential overdrafts
 01/25 -  Unions see greenbacks in 'green' future
 01/24 -  Carter confronts critics of his latest book
 01/24 -  Bush's health care windfall for Big Business
 01/24 -  State of delusion
 01/24 -  A fair way to shrink the wealth gap
 01/23 -  NC to investigate voter intimidation in Swain County
 01/23 -  Major scientific study to confirm global warming
 01/23 -  Alarms raised over Pentagon selling military surplus to Iran
 01/23 -  Open source groups merge to fight Microsoft
 01/23 -  WNC teen faces deportation
 01/23 -  Free market works for corporations, CEOs but leaves labor behind
 01/22 -  Mediacom wants same deal Sinclair forged with Time-Warner
 01/22 -  GOP skeptics dog Bush on Iraq
 01/21 -  Experts say Cold War holds lessons for Iraq
 01/21 -  Discredited neo-cons still hold sway over Bush
 01/21 -  Alabama's deadly tort reform
 01/21 -  US suffers deadliest day in Iraq
 01/21 -  Opposition to Iraq War simmers in America's heartland
 01/21 -  Bush may lose NC ally
 01/21 -  NC lawmakers on edge over ethics rules
 01/20 -  Bush's preemptive strike on prosecutors
 01/20 -  Lenoir gets Google, at a cost
 01/19 -  Cheney rejected Iranian concessions in 2003, report says
 01/19 -  Dems make progress on student loans, but there's more to do
 01/19 -  Some impertinent questions for George W. Bush
 01/19 -  Moyers: Life on the plantation
 01/19 -  A clear, bubbling passion for watchdog journalism
 01/19 -  Beyond the green corporation
 01/19 -  Local man preaches sustainability
 01/19 -  After five years, Bush does about-face on warrantless searches
 01/19 -  House Democrats celebrate passage of 100-hour agenda
 01/18 -  Bush's Iraq plan will founder with Shiites
 01/18 -  Voter intimidation alleged in Swain County
 01/18 -  Big Media missing the point of Scooter Libby trial
 01/18 -  US to meet Democrats' demands, revise trade pacts
 01/18 -  Court to monitor Bush eavesdropping program
 01/18 -  Senators offer resolution opposing more troops for Iraq
 01/18 -  US House takes on Big Oil
 01/18 -  Black: House historian's work will stay secret
 01/17 -  Sanders to push global warming bill in US Senate
 01/17 -  Drugmaker tries to silence Internet activists
 01/17 -  Wesley Clark says US must talk with Iran
 01/17 -  UN says Iraq death toll exceeded 34,000 in 2006
 01/17 -  How to be hip? Read a newspaper
 01/17 -  Ranks of NC uninsured continue to grow
 01/17 -  Venezuela's cultural revolution
 01/17 -  Scientists advance 'Doomsday Clock'
 01/17 -  Is local control just rhetoric in Raleigh?
 01/16 -  Arsonists attack eastern NC churches
 01/16 -  Bill Moyers on arming the lambs for media reform
 01/16 -  How Congress can support the troops and de-fund the war
 01/16 -  Banks are urged not to finance coal power
 01/16 -  Rethinking the Opium War in Afghanistan
 01/16 -  Poverty center boosts Edwards and UNC
 01/16 -  Ads invading every space
 01/16 -  How the GOP wins by losing in Iraq
 01/15 -  Smithfield workers protest lack of MLK holiday
 01/15 -  Will Senate join House in banning corporate jet travel?
 01/15 -  Bush omits critical details in 'surge' proposal
 01/15 -  The progressive way to save Medicare
 01/15 -  America's first war fought by credit card
 01/13 -  Dr. King and the media
 01/13 -  Nominees for MLK award announced
 01/13 -  Pentagon to abandon active-duty time limits
 01/13 -  Congress set to address immigration reform
 01/13 -  House committee to examine Iraq War costs
 01/13 -  Murtha will press for closure of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib
 01/13 -  Global warming, warring and warning
 01/13 -  Global warming threatens Outer Banks
 01/13 -  Sinclair-Mediacom dispute could expand
 01/12 -  Wireless Innovation Act of 2007 would boost rural broadband
 01/12 -  US House votes to lift limits on stem cell research
 01/12 -  War protesters call for 'common sense'
 01/12 -  FCC chief talks around net neutrality
 01/11 -  Tax cuts and consequences
 01/11 -  Stem cell vote poses a dilemma for some NC Democrats
 01/11 -  Shuler opposes Bush plan for Iraq
 01/11 -  WNC dairy farms dwindle as owners sell land
 01/11 -  Joe Hackney of Chapel Hill poised to become Speaker
 01/10 -  How Congress may block a troop 'surge'
 01/10 -  California plans major carbon cut in gasoline
 01/10 -  NC Utilities chair steps down
 01/10 -  US House votes to raise minimum wage
 01/10 -  Moyers blames Christian Right for corporate gutting of EPA rules
 01/10 -  Jackson County Green Energy Park gets EPA award
 01/10 -  Bush pulls rank on generals
 01/10 -  Congress to take up Net's future
 01/09 -  When debating minimum wage, remember Henry Ford
 01/09 -  Do carbon offsets live up to their promise?
 01/09 -  Free speech dispute over union fees
 01/09 -  US records warmest year on record in 2006
 01/09 -  Asheville launches 'Emergency Ride Home' program
 01/08 -  New Iraq law to pump oil profits to US, UK companies
 01/08 -  Study finds Bush tax cuts favor very rich
 01/08 -  Democrats push for changes in No Child Left Behind
 01/08 -  Global warming and the Southeast in peril
 01/08 -  Israel denies planning nuclear attack on Iran
 01/08 -  Life at America's bottom wage
 01/07 -  Will US Senate rise to match the House on ethics?
 01/07 -  Imperial Presidency 2.0
 01/07 -  Edwards forages for votes and dollars
 01/07 -  Proposed Woodfin power plant would be major polluter
 01/07 -  'Reform' puts mentally ill in NC nursing homes
 01/07 -  Is Bush getting it wrong on tax cuts?
 01/06 -  NC may be facing budget shortfall
 01/06 -  PAC finds loophole in NC ethics law
 01/06 -  US Army urges the dead to re-enlist
 01/06 -  Will the new year bring health care reform?
 01/06 -  Democrats rename five House committees
 01/06 -  Heath Shuler on the 'Blue Dog' factor
 01/05 -  Top Democrats oppose Iraq 'surge'
 01/05 -  Sinclair, Mediacom continue game of chicken
 01/05 -  Plugging into the sun
 01/05 -  US faces glut of ethanol plants
 01/05 -  WNC residents: Preserve open land
 01/05 -  Moyers: America needs a different story
 01/05 -  In Bolivia -- coca, poverty and hope
 01/05 -  ExxonMobil accused of disinformation on global warming
 01/05 -  Shuler says he's in DC for NC
 01/04 -  Garrison Keillor: Time for the father to chat with the son
 01/04 -  Bush quietly authorizes snooping in US mail
 01/04 -  Will progressives trump corporate power in new Congress?
 01/04 -  Democrats hope to take from oil, give to green energy
 01/04 -  America's CEO pay may soon face squeeze
 01/03 -  Olbermann: Bush to 'surge' troops to save his ego
 01/03 -  A test for US allies: how they treat women
 01/03 -  Pat Robertson predicts 'mass killing' from terrorist attack
 01/03 -  The GOP's religious litmus test
 01/03 -  Let gays serve openly, retired general says
 01/02 -  Charles Taylor fined $91,000 for campaign violation
 01/02 -  Shuler names two key staffers
 01/02 -  Scale of global warming revealed in '06
 01/02 -  Next big test of power to seize private property?
 01/02 -  NC lobbyists must hoe a straighter row
 01/02 -  North and South Carolina feud over mountain access