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MAIN News Archives for July 2009

 07/31 -  House committee reaches deal on health care reform
 07/31 -  House approves limits on executive pay
 07/31 -  Online marketers: 'They know far too much' about us
 07/31 -  Senate Dems blame media for August health deadline
 07/30 -  Help wanted: Blue Dog whisperer
 07/30 -  'Blue Dog' Democrats hold health care reform at bay
 07/29 -  A progressive analysis of latest NC tax plan
 07/29 -  Video of Raleigh town hall meeting on health care reform
 07/29 -  Obama makes health care reform pitch in Raleigh
 07/28 -  There's still time to do the right thing on taxes in NC
 07/28 -  Report: It's time to balance climate and military spending
 07/28 -  Congress and state legislatures stand up to NRA
 07/28 -  Obama cites Chinese philosopher, Yao Ming
 07/28 -  MAIN's broadband advocacy makes Newsweek magazine
 07/28 -  Conservatives will play Sotomayor card in 2010
 07/27 -  House climate bill opens loophole for existing coal plants
 07/27 -  How to attend the Obama rally in Raleigh
 07/27 -  A bid to tax health plans of executives
 07/27 -  Perdue's position on taxes continues to evolve
 07/27 -  Talk radio rules Blue Dog states
 07/26 -  Kennedy making final push for health care from his sick bed
 07/26 -  How NC reps voted in Congress
 07/26 -  Obama brings health care push to NC
 07/26 -  Why markets can't cure health care
 07/26 -  A neighborhood business for the 21st century
 07/24 -  Right-wing group in a tizzy over NC school-lunch program
 07/23 -  Blue Dogs awash in industry cash
 07/23 -  Socialism and the politics of fear
 07/23 -  Researchers produce cells they say are identical to embryonic stem cells
 07/23 -  Slow, costly and sometimes risky road to wind power
 07/22 -  Does 'buy local' ethic need more work?
 07/22 -  Bank of America lobbying tab at $1.5 million
 07/21 -  What do you call a black man at Harvard?
 07/21 -  GOP sex scandals collide with family values on C Street
 07/21 -  Obama wins Senate showdown, F-22 funding cut
 07/21 -  If Congress doesn't like public health care option, then stop using it!
 07/21 -  Obama to talk health care with Blue Dog Democrats
 07/21 -  Judge accuses CIA officials of fraud, unseals secret files
 07/21 -  US withheld data on risks of distracted driving
 07/20 -  Maintaining the noble purpose of libraries
 07/20 -  Frank McCourt, 'Angela's Ashes' author, is dead at 78
 07/19 -  Bird-dogging stimulus contracts
 07/19 -  Scaling back health reform will limit choices for some workers
 07/19 -  As Sotomayor nears confirmation, GOP scores propaganda victory
 07/19 -  Health care's fateful moment
 07/19 -  The deadly habit of texting and driving
 07/17 -  Walter Cronkite, iconic journalist, is dead at 92
 07/17 -  Officials investigate milky discharge in Toe River
 07/17 -  Bush's wiretapping: Illegal and unnecessary
 07/17 -  NC immigration officer arrested for coercing Hispanic woman
 07/17 -  Pentagon panel calls for end to military smoking
 07/17 -  Why isn't single-payer part of the health care debate?
 07/16 -  Limits on logging are reinstated
 07/16 -  Mainstream media ignore Sen. Sessions' views on race and 'impartiality'
 07/16 -  Solar Farms alfalfa sprouts recalled
 07/16 -  Court settlement nets auto insurance refunds for NC residents
 07/16 -  Golfers cry foul as NC considers removing tax exemption
 07/15 -  Building a better journalism
 07/15 -  Senate committee passes health care bill
 07/15 -  Blue Cross/Blue Shield of NC targeted by rally for public option
 07/15 -  Seeking interviews, reporters expressed sympathy for Sanford
 07/14 -  NC Senate panel moves to limit wind energy in WNC
 07/14 -  Democrats' infighting could scuttle public option for health care
 07/14 -  On tiny plots, a new generation of farmers take root
 07/13 -  Plain talk on activism of Roberts court
 07/13 -  UNCA cuts 43 staff; will close Environmental Quality Institute
 07/13 -  Sotomayor hearing proves 'judicial activism' is in the eye of the beholder
 07/13 -  Comparing Sotomayor's hearing to justices past
 07/13 -  Energy industry sways Congress with misleading data
 07/13 -  Home loan rejection rate double for blacks and hispanics
 07/13 -  Legitimizing the Honduran coup
 07/13 -  Former health insurance exec blows whistle on industry scare tactics
 07/13 -  Why Jimmy Carter's 'crisis of confidence' speech still matters
 07/13 -  Senators Feinstein, Durbin question legality of CIA action
 07/13 -  Approval by a blogger may please a sponsor
 07/12 -  Sources: Cheney ordered CIA to conceal program from Congress
 07/12 -  Sotomayor advocates urge reporters to probe firefighter's history
 07/12 -  NC hands shaping health care reform
 07/11 -  In NC and US, conservatives turning hard right
 07/11 -  Are feds about to screw-up broadband mapping?
 07/10 -  Wendell Berry picks jail over livestock tagging
 07/10 -  Bill McKibben and the ultimate climate change campaign
 07/10 -  NC lawmakers question industry-backed broadband map
 07/10 -  Herbicide residue found in local manures, compost
 07/10 -  Ensign's parents paid $96,000 to mistress
 07/10 -  Robert Reich: The recovery that will not come
 07/10 -  A budget-cutting idea with wide appeal in NC
 07/10 -  Sen. Franken: Remember Mark Twain
 07/10 -  Some states wasting money on corporate subsidies
 07/10 -  Perdue picks six for DOT board
 07/10 -  Growing numbers of poor swamp legal aid offices
 07/09 -  Used computers needed for people with disabilities
 07/09 -  Charter cable CEO's salary doubled despite bankruptcy filing
 07/09 -  Are Google's 'free' apps really free?
 07/08 -  Politics of the plate: US organic rules called 'dysfunctional'
 07/08 -  N.C. Senate committee backs away from wind-turbine ban in WNC
 07/08 -  Perdue calls for 1 cent sales tax increase
 07/07 -  Health co-op offers model for reform
 07/07 -  NC debates windmill ban in the mountains
 07/07 -  Report: Privatizing mental health care in NC wasted $635 million
 07/06 -  Robert S. McNamara, architect of Vietnam War, dead at 93
 07/06 -  Ruling on white firefighters says more about the justices than the law
 07/05 -  Support grows for health care 'public option'
 07/05 -  Sarah turns pro (with apologies to Hunter S. Thompson)
 07/05 -  Roberts court poised to unleash corporate power in elections
 07/05 -  Some states forego federal unemployment stimulus funds
 07/05 -  Tennessee coal-ash disaster shines light on high-risk NC ponds
 07/05 -  Obama's youthful ideals shaped long arc of nuclear-free vision
 07/04 -  Why not a 'Declaration of Independence' for America's public airwaves?
 07/04 -  New banks fueled by 'hot money' begin to implode
 07/04 -  Sarah's straight talk
 07/03 -  Washington Post cancels pay-to-schmooze program
 07/03 -  A president breaks hearts in Appalachia
 07/03 -  White House close to deal with hospitals on cost cuts
 07/02 -  Will much of New Orleans be under water by 2100?
 07/02 -  Sanford's mental state questioned
 07/02 -  Scalia breaks ranks, slams Bush officials on bank regulation
 07/02 -  When our brains short-circuit
 07/02 -  WNC coalition to seek broadband stimulus funds
 07/02 -  Nonprofit investigative news network formed
 07/02 -  Can the free market provide broadband for everyone?
 07/02 -  China's 'green dam' overflows and bursts
 07/02 -  NC praised for public-finance law for electing judges
 07/01 -  TV host Bob Barker, PETA charge Eastern Band of Cherokee with cruelty to bears
 07/01 -  With ad sales down 34 percent, Gannett to cut more than 1,000 jobs
 07/01 -  Busted: When your health insurer won't pay
 07/01 -  Is broadband a civil right?
 07/01 -  Obama sends cabinet on rural listening tour