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MAIN News Archives for October 2007

 10/31 -  Warren Buffett says his 17.7% tax rate is dwarfed by staff's 32.9%
 10/31 -  South's public school children are now mainly low income
 10/31 -  Tim Russert, working-class shill for Washington's elites
 10/31 -  Mukasey's dodge on torture puts AG nomination at risk
 10/31 -  Survey: Americans oppose further media concentration
 10/31 -  Bush acknowledges the 'dark side'
 10/31 -  Kay Hagan to challenge Elizabeth Dole
 10/31 -  Iraqi civilian deaths rising under Bush's new rules of engagement
 10/31 -  Alternative weeklies rally against sheriff's abuse of power
 10/31 -  Democrats ponder showdown over executive privilege
 10/31 -  Wars ask too much of too few
 10/31 -  Progress Energy estimates $1.35 billion clean-up of coal plants
 10/30 -  The immigration blame game
 10/30 -  McChesney rallies media reform movement
 10/30 -  Obama pledges support for 'net neutrality'
 10/30 -  Why no media coverage of war protests?
 10/30 -  Mukasey refuses to call waterboarding illegal
 10/30 -  Senate panel votes to expand nonprofit FM radio
 10/30 -  Community radio, broadband Internet bills heard in Senate
 10/29 -  How to understand Islam
 10/29 -  Studs Terkel: 'The wiretap this time'
 10/29 -  A cry for the Catawba
 10/29 -  The case against Mukasey
 10/29 -  Are rising obesity rates tied to US farm policy?
 10/29 -  Edwards calls for US to move beyond 'politics of fear'
 10/29 -  Study finds US media cuts presidential field to five
 10/29 -  Walking into Iran's trap
 10/28 -  Jim Dean stumps for Asheville City Council candidates
 10/28 -  Free trade's unspoken transfer of wealth
 10/28 -  Waxman pushing for congressional oversight
 10/28 -  How about some real home improvement?
 10/28 -  WNC springs and wells failing
 10/27 -  FEMA apologizes for fake news conference
 10/27 -  Everybody look what's going down
 10/27 -  The secret world of bandwidth
 10/27 -  Moyers probes Cheney's theory of 'monarchical' presidency
 10/27 -  Torture complaint filed against Rumsfeld in France
 10/27 -  Distortions slam progressive tax reform
 10/26 -  Immigration laws dry up farming work force
 10/26 -  Will nonprofits save journalism?
 10/26 -  NC copy of the Bill of Rights on display at UNC-Asheville Nov. 8-10
 10/26 -  Edwards calls for investor voice in CEO pay
 10/26 -  Blackwater's role in Katrina
 10/26 -  The Post Office versus the First Amendment
 10/26 -  US labor policy: keep wages low
 10/25 -  Ron Paul: 'It can't happen here'
 10/25 -  How government snoops get a direct line to your data
 10/25 -  The new right-wing smear machine
 10/25 -  Why the innocent should fear government surveillance
 10/25 -  Bush tops the charts on spending
 10/25 -  House passes amended version of children's health bill
 10/25 -  Big Cable's plan to profit from domestic spying
 10/25 -  Another $200 billion down the spider hole
 10/24 -  Duke's altar call for coal
 10/24 -  White House continues to censor climate science
 10/24 -  Cost, climate-change raise doubts about coal-fired plants
 10/24 -  Mukasey must retract view that the president is above the law
 10/24 -  Is Cheney crazy enough to attack Iran?
 10/24 -  Senate blocks path to citizenship for children of migrant workers
 10/24 -  Senators threaten to block media ownership plan
 10/24 -  ACLU fights immunity for telecom giants
 10/24 -  Former attorney general says Justice Dept. targeted Democrats
 10/24 -  DOT admits failures, pledges reform
 10/24 -  Wal-Mart's state tax dodges under increased scrutiny
 10/24 -  War costs keep soaring
 10/24 -  Construction of US embassy in Iraq under criminal probe
 10/23 -  Like Dean in '04, Edwards aims to lead populist uprising
 10/23 -  Senators: White House cut deal for telcos' spying immunity
 10/23 -  Easley asks North Carolinians to cut water use by half
 10/22 -  Atlanta shudders at prospect of empty faucets
 10/22 -  National drought map
 10/22 -  Eve of destruction: Bush's World War III
 10/22 -  Valerie Plame Wilson speaks out
 10/22 -  Retired nurse takes a hammer to Comcast
 10/22 -  How to pay for a free press
 10/22 -  Wise words on recent corruption in NC
 10/22 -  Bush's spying hits Americans abroad
 10/22 -  US Senate candidate in NC says being gay 'no big deal'
 10/22 -  Edwards sells the South in New Hampshire
 10/21 -  Crass public discourse: Time to push back?
 10/21 -  A link between crime and lead poisoning?
 10/21 -  Unused 'white space' spectrum could solve rural broadband problem
 10/21 -  African children's choir finds home in NC
 10/21 -  Highlands attorney announces run for Congress
 10/20 -  Coal-fired plant nixed over carbon dioxide for first time
 10/19 -  AP confirms Comcast blocks some Internet traffic
 10/19 -  Counterterrorism chief resigns after saying US less safe due to Iraq War
 10/19 -  The perils of privatizaton
 10/19 -  Wiretapping lies aim to manipulate public opinion
 10/19 -  Colbert's 'run' for the White House raises serious legal issues
 10/19 -  Oil prices soar. But why?
 10/18 -  Earth to GOP: 'The world has changed'
 10/18 -  Sen. Dodd says he will block telecom immunity bill
 10/18 -  Attorney General nominee dodges questions on torture
 10/18 -  'The moment has come to get rid of Saddam'
 10/18 -  Corporations won't lead the way on solving global warming
 10/18 -  Democrats fail to override veto of children's health bill
 10/18 -  GOP smear-machine cranks up against Clinton
 10/18 -  When will we start listening to our troops?
 10/18 -  Is it time for a Constitutional Convention?
 10/18 -  GOP planning fall offensive
 10/18 -  Eight Democrats face pressure to override SCHIP veto
 10/18 -  Edwards woos rural voters
 10/17 -  Cherokee newspaper decree sparks free speech debate
 10/17 -  NSA spying: What did Pelosi know?
 10/17 -  Uninsured children in NC up 20 percent since 2001
 10/17 -  The biggest Cheney mystery
 10/17 -  What's really in your food?
 10/17 -  Business abandons GOP for Democrats
 10/17 -  NC sheriffs, feds join forces on migrants
 10/17 -  Drought fires opposition to Cliffside coal plant
 10/16 -  Asheville approves city's tallest building
 10/16 -  American Fascism Awareness Week?
 10/16 -  The smearing of Al Gore isn't limited to wing-nuts
 10/16 -  Report: Medicare drug plan fails to negotiate discounts
 10/16 -  ACLU: Pentagon using FBI to spy on US citizens
 10/16 -  Watch your back, Rush Limbaugh
 10/16 -  Town board challengers target Waynesville's land-use plan
 10/16 -  It's time to return Congress to the people
 10/16 -  Ellington critics question accuracy of traffic study
 10/15 -  'Frontline' shines light on Cheney's power trip
 10/15 -  The folly of war with Iran
 10/15 -  NC poll results: voters want planned growth
 10/15 -  Communities consider limits on 'McMansions'
 10/15 -  Asheville performing arts center gets $500,000 grant
 10/15 -  Privatizing war: Blackwater and others use political ties to make a killing
 10/15 -  Edwards picks up service-workers' backing in 10 states
 10/15 -  What's wrong with Al Gore?
 10/15 -  The speech Republicans won't give
 10/15 -  Easley calls for more water conservation
 10/14 -  Top US commander calls Iraq a 'nightmare with no end in sight'
 10/14 -  Ralph Nader: Dodging impeachment
 10/14 -  Domestic spying cover-up
 10/14 -  Edwards calls for public financing of congressional elections
 10/14 -  Pressure rises against bottled water
 10/14 -  Telecom exec says firm punished for refusal to give call data to NSA
 10/13 -  Frank Rich: The 'Good Germans' among us
 10/13 -  New I-26 bridge could get landmark design
 10/12 -  A conversation with Ron Paul
 10/12 -  The biggest threat to free speech in America?
 10/12 -  Coulter describes 'perfect' America, takes swipe at Jews
 10/12 -  Poison kiss: product tests find lead in lipsticks
 10/12 -  The GOP debate: Who needs the Constitution?
 10/12 -  NC treasurer seeks federal probe of Countrywide CEO
 10/12 -  Edwards details plans for poor schools
 10/12 -  Congress, White House battle over wiretap oversight
 10/12 -  Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN panel
 10/11 -  Suit accuses Apple, AT&T of monopoly
 10/11 -  Judge halts Bush crackdown on immigrant workers
 10/11 -  Shuler requests change in policy for Capitol flags
 10/11 -  Radioactive tritium found in groundwater at Catawba nuclear plant
 10/11 -  WNC landmark's history of strong women
 10/11 -  Global warming sceptics claim media 'hysteria'
 10/11 -  Signs of a truce in America's culture wars?
 10/10 -  House panels approve more scrutiny over electronic surveillance
 10/10 -  Jimmy Carter calls Dick Cheney 'a disaster for our country'
 10/10 -  Inevitable Hillary?
 10/10 -  Preparing for Asheville's next big flood
 10/10 -  Pelosi: Activists should persuade GOP lawmakers to help end war
 10/10 -  How a freshman senator got something big done
 10/10 -  Ron Paul to GOP frontrunners: Read the Constitution!
 10/10 -  Bush's false claims about children's health insurance
 10/10 -  Will Democrats fold on telecoms' domestic spying?
 10/10 -  Lite, Russell, Butner join incumbents in Asheville council race
 10/09 -  Civil rights victory remembered
 10/09 -  Supreme Court rejects torture appeal
 10/09 -  Bill to rein-in Blackwater goes to Senate
 10/09 -  Asheville holds city council primary today
 10/08 -  Cynthia Tucker: The damage is done
 10/08 -  Corporations versus Democracy: A student's view
 10/08 -  In an era of corporate fraud, Supreme Court reviews shareholder rights
 10/08 -  A poet unplugged and silenced
 10/08 -  The Big Lie: 'Iran is a threat'
 10/08 -  Remembering Columbus
 10/08 -  Business leaders hope to shift US spending priorities
 10/08 -  Edwards says Clinton represents 'corporate Democrats'
 10/08 -  Study finds possible health risk from mobile phone use
 10/07 -  Habeas corpus is key to US security; it's time to restore it
 10/07 -  Nobody knows the lynchings he's seen
 10/07 -  While state lotteries prosper, benefits to students lag
 10/06 -  Former US official tells of Blackwater's disregard for Iraqi lives
 10/06 -  Edwards slams top Clinton strategist's ties to Blackwater
 10/06 -  Why are US media muzzled on Canada's 'single-payer' health system?
 10/06 -  Internet firms in China assist in online censorship
 10/06 -  As Dems gather in Asheville, Aycock legacy is reappraised
 10/06 -  National Guard troops denied benefits after longest deployment of Iraq War
 10/06 -  A conservative asks: 'What is wrong with this war and with us?'
 10/06 -  WWII interrogators protest Bush treatment of POWs
 10/05 -  The narcissism of Clarence Thomas
 10/05 -  Bowen to discuss media reform Oct. 9 at ASU
 10/05 -  Blackwater and the politics of whistleblowing
 10/05 -  Uncle Sam's 'invisible hand' in journalism
 10/05 -  Preparing Americans for war on Iran
 10/05 -  Report blasts FCC leaks to telecom lobbyists
 10/05 -  Music industry wins $220,000 verdict against downloader
 10/05 -  White House confirms existence of 'torture' memos
 10/05 -  US peace activists barred entry to Canada due to FBI watch-list
 10/05 -  Police arrest 14-year old boy in Asheville triple-shooting
 10/05 -  Effort to split California's electoral votes stalls
 10/05 -  Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' comments continue to roil Iraq debate
 10/05 -  Bush opposes bill to put private contractors under US law
 10/05 -  DOT releases papers on Easley's orders
 10/04 -  Can for-profit journalism and truth-telling co-exist?
 10/04 -  Robert Parry: The Clintons and the Bushes
 10/04 -  NC towns to pilot instant runoff voting
 10/04 -  Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' slur
 10/04 -  Radio fears to air Ginsberg's 'Howl' fifty years after landmark court ruling
 10/04 -  Are US troops being force-fed Christianity?
 10/04 -  Easley orders release of DOT papers
 10/03 -  GOP's Ron Paul catching fire with grassroots
 10/03 -  Blackwater USA: 'The whores of war'
 10/03 -  Handmade in America seeks new executive director
 10/03 -  Beware the 'stink tanks'
 10/03 -  Bush vetoes children's health insurance bill
 10/03 -  What is DOT hiding?
 10/03 -  Satisfying America's hunger to serve
 10/03 -  Asheville police report rapid rise in gang violence
 10/02 -  Senate to vote on FEC nominee accused of voter suppression
 10/02 -  Anita Hill: The smear this time
 10/02 -  'The world the New Deal built has been destroyed'
 10/02 -  Are US and Iran headed for war?
 10/02 -  Seymour Hersh on intensifying plans to attack Iran
 10/02 -  Poll: Most Americans want Iraq war funding cut
 10/02 -  Giuliani's war cabinet
 10/02 -  House Democrats to seek Jan. 2009 Iraq pullout
 10/02 -  Supreme Court denies hearing for fired "honk for peace" teacher
 10/02 -  Henderson County GOP leader joins race to unseat Shuler
 10/02 -  Congress turns up the heat on Blackwater
 10/01 -  Blackwater and the business of war
 10/01 -  Israel's toy soldiers
 10/01 -  New math for utilities: sell less, make more
 10/01 -  AT&T to critics: We can disconnect you
 10/01 -  Telecom-funded thinktanks help shape Internet policy
 10/01 -  US is top arms-seller to developing world
 10/01 -  Congress raises debt limit to $9.8 trillion

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