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MAIN News Archives for May 2010

05/31 -  Virus ravages cassava plants in Africa
05/31 -  How Rupert stalked WSJ
05/31 -  New data show lobbyists skirting fundraising rules
05/31 -  Blacks in Memphis lose decades of economic gains
05/30 -  Latest NASA satellite views of Gulf oil disaster
05/30 -  Cable-telco lobby gin-up House angst on Open Internet rules
05/30 -  Putting profit above people and property warps our economy
05/30 -  Is America becoming socialist?
05/29 -  Gingrich rebuked for Nazi comparisons
05/28 -  Helms put WRAL at FBI's disposal in early 70s, files show
05/27 -  Lawmaker files bill to preserve Caswell County's broadband rights
05/27 -  NC Senate panel postpones vote on bill to limit broadband
05/26 -  AT&T, Verizon under fire for early termination fees
05/25 -  Congress to revisit Communications Act
05/25 -  Why progressive policies yield more freedom for North Carolinians
05/25 -  How Facebook is redefining privacy
05/25 -  NC attorney general seeks expanded DNA testing
05/25 -  Raleigh makes list of 'America's Most Innovative Cities'
05/25 -  Wal-Mart fires employee for foiling shoplifting attempt
05/25 -  First it was death panels, now it's a government takeover of the Internet
05/23 -  NCSU takes lead in organic farming and 'buy local'
05/23 -  Those who want to 'cure' gays spread poison
05/23 -  Florida Keys await oil from Gulf spill
05/22 -  Judge rules permitting of new Georgia nuclear reactors illegal
05/22 -  Radical Ayn Rand rookie
05/21 -  NC lawmakers should reject Big Telecom's ploy to restrict broadband
05/20 -  The GOP's skin-color test for immigration
05/20 -  Senate passes bill to regulate Wall Street, 59-39
05/20 -  Rand Paul rocks GOP with desegregation remarks
05/20 -  Senate breaks impasse on financial reform
05/20 -  Gulf oil leak volume pegged at 95,000 barrels a day
05/20 -  Worried girl asks Michelle Obama if her mother will be deported
05/20 -  South Carolina considers Arizona-style immigration law
05/20 -  Rush Limbaugh, party boss
05/19 -  Do rural America's best and brightest shy away from top colleges?
05/19 -  As the kudzu grows, so does . . . the ozone?
05/19 -  The election Fox News would rather forget
05/18 -  Glenn Beck's war on the FCC
05/18 -  A generation gap over immigration
05/17 -  Broadband and the FCC -- and the GOP
05/17 -  Time to pick the strawberries
05/17 -  Tax bills in 2009 lowest since 1950
05/17 -  In West Virginia, Verizon continues sell-off of rural landlines
05/17 -  Rural WNC could lag state, US in economic recovery
05/16 -  Google says it collected private data by mistake
05/16 -  Workers launch push for progressive party in NC
05/16 -  New food bill should protect small farms
05/14 -  GOP senator blocks bill to raise oil spill liability
05/14 -  Western senators propose ban on Pacific drilling
05/13 -  GOP lawmaker doubts need for rural broadband programs
05/13 -  AT&T makes common-cause with right-wingers Grover Norquist and Fox News
05/13 -  NC lawmaker to community broadband: 'Drop dead'
05/13 -  UNC to be coal-free in 10 years
05/12 -  What to look for as NC legislature convenes
05/11 -  Gulf oil disaster spurs NC wind energy debate
05/11 -  Small nonprofits must act to preserve tax-exempt status
05/10 -  Stimulus funds Asheville green-jobs training
05/10 -  Cherokee fight Duke Power to keep Kituwah sacred
05/10 -  Telecoms push bill in NC Senate to block community broadband
05/09 -  NC unemployment benefits in the red
05/09 -  A closer look at BP and the Gulf oil disaster
05/09 -  Is Palin going rogue on racial profiling?
05/09 -  Goodbye Tooth Fairy, hello root canal
05/09 -  Novelist Grisham urges UNC grads to 'find a voice'
05/08 -  Urban myths fueling NC's right-wing campaigns
05/07 -  Facebook privacy flaws cited in complaint to FTC
05/06 -  FCC will reclaim power to ensure an open Internet
05/06 -  Keever's upset of four-term incumbent was grassroots-powered
05/06 -  Sounding the depths of the Tea Party's bitter brew
05/06 -  Could Gulf Stream deliver oil residue to NC coast?
05/06 -  Debate over Duke power lines shifts to second front
05/05 -  Miller wins GOP primary, faces Shuler in November
05/04 -  Corporate 'astroturf' group attacks NC-based consumer advocacy nonprofit
05/04 -  Bruce Goforth concedes NC House race to Patsy Keever
05/04 -  Local shop owners bewildered by anarchist attacks
05/03 -  Eleven arrested for Asheville vandalism
05/02 -  Obama vows BP will cover oil damages, but law caps company's liability
05/02 -  Asheville WordFest: Celebrating the 'news that stays news'
05/02 -  Epic oil blowout could reach Gulf Stream, east coast of Florida
05/01 -  In final show, Bill Moyers interviews Jim Hightower
05/01 -  Anger over Arizona immigration law fuels rallies across US
05/01 -  In graduation speech, Obama defends government, civility, open minds
05/01 -  A glimpse of life as an 'inside-the-Beltway' journalist