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MAIN News Archives for August 2004

 08/31 -  Toll of U.S. war dead rising again
 08/31 -  Billboard firm sues DOT, claims free-speech violation
 08/31 -  Does the GOP reflect America?
 08/31 -  The real scoop on Social Security?
 08/31 -  The GOP on auto-pilot?
 08/31 -  Edwards attacks Bush's 'go it alone"'strategy in N.C. speech
 08/31 -  Ad debate heats up governor's race
 08/31 -  Lawsuit 'abuse' claims don't match facts
 08/30 -  War increasing doubts about Bush
 08/30 -  Edwards urges student loan upgrade
 08/30 -  Show me the convention!
 08/29 -  Texan 'ashamed' of helping Bush escape draft
 08/29 -  Feds cut research on charter schools
 08/29 -  Charlotte-to-Raleigh train gaining speed
 08/29 -  Media bias debate should start with facts
 08/28 -  GOP keeps Christian Right out of sight
 08/28 -  RiverLink to catalog WNC swimming holes
 08/28 -  Amy Goodman to speak Sept. 3 in Asheville
 08/27 -  Democracy Now! interviews Steve Earle
 08/27 -  Will America get an October surprise?
 08/27 -  In NY Times interview, Bush says Kerry did not lie about Vietnam
 08/27 -  Throwing mud at those who served
 08/27 -  Nature and literature meet in 'Together We Read' program
 08/27 -  Campaigns target single women
 08/27 -  Giving voice to Republicans against Bush
 08/27 -  Daniel Schorr flips over flip-flopping
 08/27 -  N.C. parties target Latino voters
 08/26 -  Voters wary of churches' role in politics
 08/26 -  Protesters ask media for balanced coverage
 08/26 -  Survey finds rise in U.S. poverty
 08/26 -  Research links soft drinks to diabetes
 08/26 -  Civil rights leaders warn of "dirty tricks" to suppress vote
 08/25 -  Father torches van after learning of son's death in Iraq
 08/25 -  NYC protests could help Bush campaign
 08/25 -  Bush campaign lawyer resigns over ties to Swift Boat vets
 08/25 -  N.C. Division of Air Quality is part of the problem
 08/25 -  Union allowed to recruit N.C. farm workers
 08/25 -  Bush campaign lawyer advising Swift Boat group
 08/24 -  Father of beheaded American speaks out
 08/24 -  Pat Buchanan: "Bush has ceased to be a conservative.'
 08/24 -  The fog of cable on Kerry's war record
 08/24 -  Letting the ban on assault weapons expire
 08/24 -  What's behind media mea culpas?
 08/24 -  Granny D granted legal name change
 08/24 -  Is the Swift Boat attack on Kerry a repeat of 2000 attack on McCain?
 08/24 -  Kerry reaching out to conservatives
 08/24 -  Unlike past years, UNC summer book talks lack controversy
 08/23 -  Google wealth built on Uncle Sam's shoulders
 08/23 -  Edwards focuses on job losses in N.C. visit
 08/23 -  Unions protest new overtime rules
 08/19 -  WCU growth affecting region
 08/19 -  Kerry condemns anti-Bush ad, calls for campaign on 'issues not insults'
 08/19 -  Military records cast doubt on Kerry critic
 08/19 -  Kerry: Bush lets groups do 'dirty work'
 08/19 -  Asheville city manager to retire
 08/18 -  Top GOP lawmaker calls Iraq War a "mistake"
 08/18 -  UNC, Christian fraternity at odds
 08/18 -  Latino students overcome barriers to achieve
 08/17 -  As rich get richer, new data shows tax burden shifts to middle class
 08/17 -  How "Fahrenheit 9/11" broke the spell cast by Big Media
 08/17 -  Poll shows Kerry closing on Bush in N.C.
 08/17 -  Appalachia paying heavy price for White House rule change
 08/17 -  Is our media covering its errors, or covering them up?
 08/17 -  Clean air relay kicks off Friday
 08/17 -  Harkin attacks 'backdoor draft,' calls Cheney a 'coward'
 08/16 -  Why the war profiteers hate Michael Moore
 08/16 -  Madison County balladeer continues tradition
 08/16 -  Carter endorses Chavez win in Venezuela
 08/16 -  Corporate reformers try new legal tactics
 08/16 -  New interstate highway proposed for WNC
 08/16 -  FBI knocking on doors of political activists
 08/16 -  N.C. scientists debate stem-cell research
 08/15 -  Is Kerry right about Iraq?
 08/14 -  Choose paper -- we can't afford a suspect election
 08/14 -  Is PBS caving in to right-wing pressure?
 08/14 -  Bush distorts medical malpractice issue
 08/14 -  U.S. Army, "Fahrenheit 9/11" distributors at war
 08/13 -  What the court really said about lawful detention
 08/13 -  Will senior citizens decide this election?
 08/13 -  Kerry on the media
 08/13 -  Animation: "Live and Let Leak"
 08/13 -  Email about Edwards disputed by his neighbors
 08/12 -  Pulling back the curtain on the Swift Boat smears
 08/12 -  Small N.C. towns turn to the arts to boost the economy
 08/12 -  Report: China could rule textile world in 2005
 08/12 -  Washington Post admits it downplayed doubts about WMD
 08/12 -  WNC soldier coping with war wounds
 08/11 -  Is Bush's nominee for CIA chief a decoy for re-election?
 08/11 -  Justifying the noble lie?
 08/11 -  TV broadcasts ignore the economy
 08/10 -  White House on defensive over al-Qaeda leak
 08/10 -  Ancient tree in Macon County may be doomed
 08/10 -  Stem-cell lines divide Bush and Kerry
 08/09 -  Big Brother teams up with Corporate America
 08/09 -  Friends in the White House come to coal industry's aid
 08/09 -  Time magazine reporter held in contempt in CIA leak case
 08/09 -  Ex-CIA analyst sees motive for postponing the election
 08/09 -  Boone filmmaker looks to the future
 08/09 -  Is American democracy in peril?
 08/09 -  Norman Mailer warns protesters of RNC 'trap'
 08/09 -  Chimney Rock's 'smart community' effort paying off
 08/09 -  The Leandro Case: How a mother and son made history by trying to help N.C.'s poor schools
 08/09 -  Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English published
 08/09 -  Edwards backtracks to repay Kansas debt
 08/09 -  Remembering Eisenhower's GOP
 08/08 -  Bush misleads when he complains of blocks on his judicial nominees
 08/07 -  Child abuse 'epidemic' in Haywood County
 08/06 -  Ralph Nader: Let the voters beware
 08/06 -  Bishop Emeritus Bennett Sims speaks out
 08/06 -  McCain denounces anti-Kerry ad
 08/06 -  As election day approaches, dirty tricks will increase
 08/05 -  While the right attacks Kerry in Vietnam, Bush's military records go down the memory hole
 08/05 -  Conservatives attack Neo-Cons over Iraq War
 08/04 -  America's Choice: Republic or Empire?
 08/04 -  Media pack sticks to script at Democratic Convention
 08/04 -  The Boss and friends take on Bush
 08/04 -  Asheville council passed a vague watershed plan and ignored will of the people
 08/04 -  Ocracoke ordered to evacuate
 08/04 -  Scandals erode public confidence in drug industry
 08/03 -  Study: Wal-Mart costs taxpayers
 08/03 -  How the 2004 election could be stolen
 08/03 -  Was timing of terrorism alert politically motivated?
 08/03 -  U.S. Senator Robert Byrd speaks out
 08/03 -  Will 'middle class squeeze' stir undecided voters?
 08/02 -  U.S. trade advisers accept plum jobs after signing drug deal
 08/02 -  In competitive move, IBM puts code in public domain
 08/02 -  Study warns of bogus cancer cures on the Internet
 08/02 -  Ron Reagan on George W. Bush
 08/02 -  Study: Pediatricians can miss obesity
 08/02 -  Walter Cronkite recalls Gulf of Tonkin
 08/02 -  Dems urge folks to vote their "pocketbooks"

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