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MAIN News Archives for December 2003

 12/31 -  Grove Park Inn Press Release: "Downtown Site A Plan 'Not Financially Feasible'" (PDF)
 12/31 -  Willie Nelson to debut new anti-war ballad
 12/31 -  Brasstown is ready for the 'Possum Drop'
 12/30 -  Time for single-payer health care?
 12/30 -  Our so-called 'boom'
 12/30 -  Successful epic trip for eco-friendly auto
 12/30 -  EPA scuttled task force that called for tougher mercury rules
 12/30 -  Polk County survey finds support for natural resource preservation
 12/30 -  WRES joins Asheville's low-power FM scene
 12/29 -  The uncounted jobless
 12/29 -  Lax rules put public, cattle industry at risk
 12/29 -  Measuring the pollution in our bodies
 12/29 -  Many "big-picture" reforms in Iraq are being abandoned, suiting Bush reelection schedule
 12/29 -  ACLU challenges undercover surveillance of peaceful protest groups
 12/29 -  Digital artists visualize a downtown media center to showcase work
 12/24 -  Cheney should check his own "facts"
 12/23 -  Budget cuts hurting N.C.
 12/23 -  Is Libyan arms agreement mainly about oil?
 12/23 -  Doubts surfacing among traditional conservatives?
 12/23 -  Bush Medicare chief granted ethics waiver to seek lobbying post
 12/23 -  International trial of Saddam would reveal U.S. support for dictator
 12/23 -  How fares the WNC economy? Just ask the pawn brokers
 12/23 -  N.C. graduation rates inflated
 12/22 -  Small-businessman blows whistle on Con-Agra
 12/21 -  Critique of Newsweek's "Lawsuit Hell"
 12/19 -  Tapes show abuse of 9/11 detainees
 12/19 -  N.C. population rises
 12/19 -  Musicians protest media monopoly
 12/18 -  Wal-Mart wages -- the future for U.S. workers?
 12/18 -  The true costs of SUVs
 12/18 -  Ripping-off taxpayers in the name of patriotism
 12/18 -  Right-wing radio network drops lawsuit against websites critical of Michael Savage
 12/18 -  9/11 Chair: Attack was preventable
 12/18 -  Cold Mountain has changed little since Civil War
 12/17 -  Did U.S. illegally wiretap UN delegates before Iraq War vote?
 12/17 -  Will "News Central" take over WLOS-TV 13?
 12/17 -  The Saudi connection to terrorism
 12/17 -  BellSouth grant to help N.C. learn how to retain good teachers
 12/16 -  Should Democrats go negative?
 12/16 -  The decadent Washington press
 12/16 -  Does Saddam in the slammer really matter?
 12/15 -  Could poplar trees solve state's hog lagoon problem?
 12/15 -  Metcalf will not seek re-election to state senate
 12/15 -  Disabled called to action
 12/15 -  N.C. history finds a home
 12/12 -  Is a populist tide rising?
 12/12 -  Bush's boomerang diplomacy
 12/12 -  Dole discusses WNC job creation
 12/12 -  Raleigh man arrested on felony spam charge
 12/12 -  Study: College still affordable in N.C.
 12/11 -  Pentagon probe finds price-gouging by Halliburton
 12/11 -  N.C. registers first flu death
 12/11 -  Privatizing war
 12/10 -  Supreme Court upholds campaign-finance ban on "soft money"
 12/10 -  N.C. legislators approve tax breaks for drug, tobacco companies
 12/10 -  How drug firms "hoodwink" medical journals
 12/09 -  U.S. spending hits historic level
 12/09 -  Wal-Mart's big-city blues
 12/09 -  James Baker goes for whole loaf in Iraq
 12/09 -  Report claims Israel is training U.S. assassination squads for Iraq
 12/09 -  Building a non-corporate Internet
 12/09 -  New report reveals auto scams
 12/09 -  A WNC tradition, the Fraser fir
 12/09 -  Is a new politics of "haves versus have-nots" emerging?
 12/08 -  Gingrich: U.S. is "off the cliff" in Iraq
 12/08 -  Bush's payback to Home Depot
 12/08 -  Taxpayers foot bill for big SUVs
 12/08 -  N.C. workers losing health benefits
 12/07 -  Is Buncombe district attorney "sorry"?
 12/05 -  Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'dirty war' in Argentina
 12/05 -  Polk County fiber network to link with WNC Internet backbone
 12/04 -  Bowles outlines plan to save jobs
 12/03 -  Latinos air concerns with Henderson County planners
 12/03 -  Growing the WNC economy, one business at a time
 12/03 -  Spike Lee attacks "gangsta rap"
 12/02 -  TV networks ignored money-trail in Medicare debate
 12/02 -  DA: Lack of resources kept innocent men in jail for two years
 12/02 -  ACLU to defend UNC student in music download case
 12/02 -  Edwards proposes trade policy to save jobs
 12/01 -  Are liberals finding their voice?
 12/01 -  U.S. tax burden steadily shifting to middle class
 12/01 -  Black Mountain billboards coming down
 12/01 -  Buying local reduces risk of infected food
 12/01 -  New N.C. laws take effect today

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