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MAIN News Archives for November 2004

 11/30 -  Supreme Court hears anti-discrimination case
 11/30 -  White House downplays Red Cross torture finding
 11/30 -  NC election board certifies one race
 11/30 -  NC ponders relaxed air pollution rules
 11/30 -  Local abundance from WNC farms
 11/30 -  Edwards vows to keep fighting for workers
 11/30 -  'They hate our policies, not our freedom'
 11/29 -  Activists crawl the Web to untangle US secrecy
 11/29 -  Military recruiters target working-class schools
 11/29 -  Uncle Sam is watching you
 11/29 -  Ohio election probe gathers steam
 11/29 -  The right-wing indecency hoax
 11/29 -  WUNC's double standard?
 11/29 -  Edwards considers next steps
 11/29 -  NC Greenpower lets citizens push alternative energy
 11/28 -  Toe River arts studio tour Dec. 3-5
 11/28 -  Deficits dog GOP
 11/28 -  NC beach towns eye federal aid
 11/26 -  Google launches new research tool
 11/26 -  Does Taylor win signal victory for North Shore Road?
 11/26 -  When drug companies fund the regulators
 11/26 -  Local men offer interactive Spanish lessons
 11/26 -  Guardsmen say they're poorly trained and ill-equipped
 11/26 -  Evangelical victory worries GOP strategist
 11/26 -  Corporate PACs backed GOP by 10 to 1
 11/26 -  Study: Lifetime of smoking costs $40 a pack
 11/24 -  Progressive hedge fund launched
 11/24 -  Media exploit brain's design flaw
 11/24 -  Who controls our school textbooks?
 11/24 -  GAO to investigate election complaints
 11/24 -  Corporate media's failure in Iraq
 11/24 -  SEC fines Asheville financial adviser
 11/24 -  Former NC Supreme Court justices seek mercy for convicted killer
 11/23 -  Americans concerned about Bush agenda
 11/23 -  Small team earns moral victory for divided NC town
 11/23 -  GOP 'morals': Rob the middle class, then tell them to trust God
 11/23 -  Fog warnings could make I-40 safer
 11/23 -  Forest Service enlists public to help save WNC's hemlocks
 11/23 -  Chapel Hill debates leaf blowers
 11/22 -  NC college teacher suspended for showing political film
 11/22 -  Feds dragging feet on election standards
 11/21 -  After 'Private Ryan,' more self-censorship to come?
 11/21 -  Cuts in student loans loom
 11/21 -  Plastic Trap: Soaring rates savage credit-card holders
 11/21 -  Edwards says fight goes on
 11/19 -  Success of pre-school revealed 40 years later
 11/19 -  GOP dominance should open Arctic wilderness for oil drilling
 11/19 -  Regional board punts I-240 ball to DOT
 11/19 -  Bush's echo chamber
 11/19 -  A new twist to your tax bill?
 11/19 -  NC Board of Elections to rule on ag and ed races
 11/19 -  Questions about US election mount
 11/19 -  Dean criticizes news media
 11/18 -  AG nominee worked hard to keep public in the dark
 11/18 -  Framing the debate on the environment
 11/18 -  Recounts done, but still no winners for ag and ed posts
 11/18 -  House ethics rules should not be weakened to protect Delay
 11/18 -  Media accused of ignoring election irregularities
 11/18 -  Who killed Margaret Hassan?
 11/18 -  Easley orders budget cuts to pay for storm damage
 11/18 -  Recount: Snow defeats Carpenter for state senate seat
 11/17 -  New statewide election for ag post possible
 11/17 -  GOP taps Dole to head '06 senatorial campaign
 11/17 -  Buncombe commissioners vote for six-lane I-240; will DOT listen?
 11/17 -  Step aside Big Media, let local radio be reborn
 11/16 -  Neo-Cons: Reaping the rewards of failure
 11/16 -  Burr wades into abortion debate
 11/16 -  Intolerance is not a 'value'
 11/16 -  Restoring trust in the vote
 11/16 -  I-240 widening debate could end soon
 11/16 -  NC Attorney General sues TVA over air pollution
 11/15 -  Humanitarian disaster in Fallujah
 11/15 -  Does backlash loom against opinion news?
 11/15 -  Colin Powell resigns
 11/14 -  Will Iraq War send U.S. economy into tailspin?
 11/14 -  AARP opposes Bush social security plan
 11/14 -  Tax reform's winners and losers
 11/13 -  CIA in turmoil under new director
 11/13 -  Wes Clark: The real battle for Fallujah
 11/13 -  War correspondent predicts draft is coming soon
 11/13 -  Maps and cartograms of the 2004 election
 11/13 -  Conservative Cato Institute cites growing threat to privacy
 11/13 -  Cable seeks to tighten monopoly grip and cut franchise fees to local governments
 11/13 -  FDA spurns WFU expert for speaking out on drug risk
 11/13 -  Evangelicals expecting payoff from Bush
 11/13 -  Protests filed in NC races
 11/12 -  Failing Private Ryan
 11/12 -  Lost votes in local races
 11/11 -  BellSouth lobbies FCC to undo Internet's openness
 11/11 -  Sinclair blacks out 'Saving Private Ryan' at WLOS
 11/11 -  Firefox 1.0 makes flashy debut
 11/11 -  As colleges compete for top students, support for low-income students fades
 11/11 -  Fallujah, where politics trumps military strategy
 11/11 -  Constitutional Rights group opposes Gonzales nomination
 11/11 -  Washington Post on possible vote fraud
 11/11 -  WUNC public radio is squeamish on 'rights'
 11/11 -  Money woes -- a vet's new wound
 11/10 -  Gonzales nominated to replace Ashcroft
 11/10 -  Limbaugh: "Nobody ever said there was" a connection between Iraq, 9-11 attacks
 11/10 -  Vets return, but not always with healthcare
 11/10 -  Wally Bowen to discuss media reform Nov. 15
 11/10 -  Kucinich on the vote in Ohio
 11/10 -  Liberal Christians challenge 'values vote'
 11/10 -  Tennessee may end state health care program
 11/10 -  Firefox 1.0 is new alternative to Internet Explorer
 11/10 -  Who is Richard Burr?
 11/10 -  Carpenter requests recount in NC Senate race
 11/09 -  Haywood Community College president resigns
 11/09 -  National Geographic: Arctic melting fast, could swamp US coasts by 2099
 11/09 -  Ashcroft resignation was overdue
 11/09 -  MSNBC continues reporting on electronic vote
 11/09 -  Is the idea of America dying?
 11/09 -  Should pols focus more on people than big business?
 11/09 -  Wal-Mart developers request more space in Asheville
 11/09 -  A deepening divide between red and blue?
 11/08 -  From the red states comes red ink
 11/08 -  Big Media avoid election-hacking story -- but for how long?
 11/08 -  Will Specter survive abortion comment?
 11/08 -  Does evidence exist that election vote was hacked?
 11/08 -  Vote tally near for three statewide offices
 11/06 -  Molly Ivins: How to cure a chicken-killing dog
 11/05 -  Young filmmakers refuse to play it safe
 11/05 -  Defining Bush's 'mandate'
 11/05 -  Filmmaker's odyssey uncovers common threads of child abuse
 11/05 -  Local editors debate "liberal media" claim
 11/05 -  The valuable lessons of Sinclair
 11/05 -  FCC failures putting free speech at risk
 11/05 -  Dell gets $242 million tax break to bring mediocre jobs to NC
 11/05 -  How the GOP's "angry populism" won more tax cuts for the rich and more job losses for the working class
 11/04 -  Whither the Democrats?
 11/04 -  Greg Palast on the uncounted votes in Ohio
 11/04 -  Cartaret County loses 4,000 votes; more than 70,000 provisional ballots still to count statewide
 11/04 -  Moral issues gave Bush the edge
 11/04 -  Christian evangelicals proclaim: "Now comes the revolution"
 11/04 -  Big Media could get bigger in second Bush term
 11/03 -  Why the heartland votes against itself
 11/03 -  Kerry concedes
 11/03 -  Down east vote spurred Burr victory over Bowles
 11/02 -  Textile quotas end, punishing Carolina towns
 11/02 -  Why the White House leaks
 11/02 -  Actor Ron Howard to attend Asheville Film Festival
 11/02 -  American Conservative editor explains Kerry endorsement
 11/02 -  Free Press to challenge WLOS license
 11/02 -  A day that will decide the fate of the world
 11/02 -  Murdoch exploits 9/11 to smear Kerry
 11/02 -  Will the Supreme Court's disdain for voting rights be a factor in 2004?
 11/02 -  Burr newspaper wrapper paid for by NRA
 11/02 -  Last-minute court ruling allows voter challenges in Ohio
 11/01 -  Ten ways to make your vote count
 11/01 -  Taylor and Keever 'meet' the press
 11/01 -  States battle Wal-Mart over health care
 11/01 -  With little media coverage, top Republicans speak out against Bush
 11/01 -  Who's who in NC political donors
 11/01 -  FCC rules against broadcaster's free political ads