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MAIN News Archives for June 2009

 06/30 -  Internet service providers not getting up to speed
 06/30 -  EPA's list of 'high-hazard' coal-ash ponds includes WNC site
 06/30 -  In Honduras coup, ghosts of past US policy
 06/30 -  NC's proposed budget called a 'job destroyer'
 06/30 -  From 'Tobacco Road' to 'Tax Break Road'
 06/30 -  NC consumer advocate joins Obama's team
 06/29 -  Key leaders of Honduran coup trained at School of the Americas
 06/29 -  Apple said to have chosen Catawba County for $1 billion server farm
 06/29 -  Madoff gets 150 years
 06/29 -  Ideologically-divided Supreme Court reverses New Haven firefighters case
 06/29 -  Obama tried to stop Honduras coup
 06/29 -  TV evangelist building $4 million home on Lake Keowee
 06/29 -  Fired DMV whistleblower sues in federal court
 06/28 -  Will health care tax hit $57,000 for family of four?
 06/28 -  Forty years later, still second-class citizens
 06/28 -  Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'If America forgave Bill Clinton, why not Mark Sanford?'
 06/28 -  Will scandals alienate evangelicals from GOP?
 06/28 -  Democrats increasingly confident on health care reform
 06/28 -  NC workers at risk
 06/27 -  When the feds treat dissent as 'low-level terrorism'
 06/27 -  Historic climate bill passes House 219-212
 06/27 -  Progressives to push Hagan on health care
 06/26 -  Snuffed in Texas
 06/26 -  Rep. Susan Fisher speaks out as sex-ed bill passes NC House
 06/26 -  Missing emails on high-tech campus?
 06/26 -  Hagan under fire over public option for health care
 06/25 -  Pastor urges flock to bring guns to church
 06/25 -  US Senate approves new FCC chair
 06/25 -  Iran power struggle tied to 'October Surprise' of 1980 election
 06/25 -  Journalism in the Twitter Era
 06/25 -  Obama to make it easier to apply for college aid
 06/25 -  How Facebook and Twitter are changing online privacy
 06/24 -  Sanford admits affair with woman in Argentina
 06/24 -  Where in the world was Gov. Mark Sanford? Argentina, not Appalachia
 06/23 -  Obama running scared
 06/23 -  Is US Sen. Kay Hagan blocking health care 'public option'?
 06/23 -  How food-makers captured our brains
 06/23 -  Feds should release list of most hazardous coal-ash ponds
 06/23 -  NC House votes to protect gay students
 06/22 -  The hidden secrets of online quizzes
 06/22 -  Obama can stop mountaintop removal without Congress
 06/22 -  Iran's censors aided by western technology
 06/22 -  Descendants sue US and Yale over Geronimo's remains
 06/22 -  Krugman: Will centrist Democrats scuttle health plan?
 06/22 -  FCC to investigate exclusive cell phone deals
 06/21 -  Atlanta attacks poverty via new public housing strategy
 06/21 -  New poll shows broad support for public health plan
 06/21 -  Despite Obama's focus on change, some Bush precedents persist
 06/20 -  Local activists arrested in W. Va. protesting mountaintop removal
 06/20 -  'How my 6-year old became a citizen journalist'
 06/20 -  Typing in an email address, and giving up your friends as well
 06/20 -  Voting on tobacco in NC
 06/20 -  Texting while driving ban signed into law in NC
 06/19 -  Audit finds TVA misled on ash spill disaster
 06/19 -  Barack Obama: Man without a faction
 06/19 -  Review: I.F. Stone, 'American Radical'
 06/19 -  In 5-4 vote, Supreme Court rejects inmate's right to DNA testing
 06/19 -  Tracking stimulus funds for weatherization in NC
 06/18 -  Racist jokes may have lasting impact on SC GOP
 06/18 -  The South's deepening climate crisis
 06/18 -  La Raza drawn into Sotomayor debate
 06/18 -  Iranians find ways to bypass Net censorship
 06/17 -  Verizon, AT&T deny collusion on texting prices
 06/17 -  New revelations about NSA's domestic surveillance
 06/17 -  Iran's hidden revolution?
 06/17 -  Probe of job for Easley's wife reveals backroom dealing
 06/16 -  NC Senate votes to loosen phone rules
 06/16 -  Thornburg to retire, Obama to appoint new federal judge for WNC
 06/16 -  Sweden's Pirate Party wins seat in European Parliament
 06/15 -  Investing Local: Putting your money where your life is
 06/15 -  CIA chief: Cheney almost 'wishing' for attack on US
 06/15 -  Duke, environmentalists agree on conservation plan
 06/15 -  The Obama haters' silent enablers
 06/15 -  Iran limits Facebook, texting to quell election protests
 06/14 -  Unions, migrant workers find common cause across US
 06/14 -  Facing $4 billion deficit, NC set to raise taxes on wealthy, corporations
 06/14 -  Bailout bank execs get golden parachutes
 06/14 -  Biden casts doubt on Ahmadinejad's re-election
 06/13 -  NC conservatives 'mired in the past'
 06/13 -  Media quarantine of single-payer option continues
 06/13 -  Colbert takes Baghdad; elite media flee
 06/13 -  Protests erupt as Iran declares huge win for Ahmadinejad
 06/12 -  The right-wing's recipe
 06/12 -  Lawmakers press broadcasters to quiet TV ads
 06/12 -  Mainstreaming hate
 06/12 -  Senate approves FDA regulation of tobacco
 06/12 -  Charlotte nonprofit to add 1,014 jobs
 06/12 -  Clinton leads memorial for John Hope Franklin
 06/05 -  The murder of Dr. George Tiller recalls history of anti-abortion violence
 06/05 -  Older workers muscling out teens for summer jobs
 06/05 -  Sotomayor's judicial history: Racially biased?
 06/04 -  Text of President Obama's address at Cairo University
 06/04 -  Juan Cole on Obama's speech in Cairo
 06/03 -  Is slam in danger of going soft?
 06/02 -  Thomas Berry, renowned cultural historian, is dead at 94
 06/02 -  Racial slur, death-threat spraypainted in Yancey County home
 06/02 -  Robin Cape will not run for second term on Asheville City Council
 06/02 -  NC's broken mental health system about to get worse
 06/02 -  On the street and on Facebook, the homeless stay connected
 06/01 -  Who is to blame for the next attack?
 06/01 -  Murder suspect supported killing abortion providers, friends say