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MAIN News Archives for February 2005

 02/28 -  Winston Churchill, neo-con?
 02/28 -  Robert Reich: Don't blame Wal-Mart
 02/28 -  Mark Crispin Miller on the media's blind eye to 'Gannon-gate' affair
 02/28 -  Churches winning race for low-power radio
 02/28 -  Kids and taxpayers win if NC increases tobacco tax
 02/28 -  Army awards millions in bonuses to Halliburton
 02/28 -  Clear sailing for polluters?
 02/28 -  Medicaid costs hit rural counties hardest
 02/28 -  NC hit hard as citizens lose health insurance coverage
 02/28 -  Easley targets 'King of the Hill' voters
 02/28 -  Budget critics: What would Jesus cut?
 02/25 -  Dirty politics, foul air
 02/25 -  See no Gannon, hear no Gannon, speak no Gannon
 02/25 -  Krugman: America's senior moment
 02/25 -  Bill Maher on Jeff Gannon's access to White House
 02/25 -  Tax break for wealthy a slap at NC working class?
 02/25 -  WNC writer named NC Poet Laureate
 02/24 -  Critics say 'Clear Skies' law is riddled with loopholes
 02/24 -  Facing jail, reporters discuss CIA leak case
 02/24 -  The road not taken -- when terror struck 72 years ago
 02/24 -  Will tougher environmental laws spur economic growth?
 02/24 -  How 'No Child Left Behind' serves military recruiters
 02/24 -  States blast 'No Child Left Behind' law
 02/23 -  Iran and Halliburton -- business as usual?
 02/23 -  Bush's uncle reaps Iraq War profits
 02/23 -  Controlling corporations and restoring democracy
 02/23 -  NC Senate approves vote count in race for education post
 02/23 -  Social justice group urges NC lawmakers to help working poor, as well as big business
 02/23 -  Today's journalism wouldn't break a Watergate story
 02/22 -  Wag the dog, change the subject
 02/22 -  Time for Bush to define 'independent press'
 02/22 -  Is holding political power accountable a liberal plot?
 02/22 -  Senator Inhofe's hypocrisy
 02/22 -  Poll: 62 percent of voters ready for woman president
 02/22 -  Supreme Court rejects challenge to Roe v. Wade
 02/22 -  Foxx tells jobless New Yorkers: Search in NC
 02/22 -  Supreme Court hears property rights case
 02/22 -  Can democracy exist with a one-party state?
 02/22 -  Easley calls for improving state's high schools
 02/21 -  Scientists claim Bush is pressuring them to distort work
 02/21 -  Is 'Clear Skies' a dirty deal?
 02/21 -  Senator trying to silence air quality critics?
 02/21 -  Sinclair Broadcasting goes beyond Fox News
 02/21 -  2005 could be another bad year for NC textiles
 02/21 -  Broadband 'redlining' issue raised over fiber rollout
 02/21 -  Lawmakers head home to pitch Social Security fix
 02/21 -  The unknown Malcolm X
 02/21 -  Labor Dept. to investigate treatment of Wal-Mart
 02/21 -  Hunter Thompson, writer, apparent suicide at 67
 02/21 -  Bush aims Amtrak for scrap heap
 02/20 -  Forty years after his death, Malcolm X is still misunderstood
 02/20 -  Are we 'complicit in our own hoodwinking'?
 02/20 -  Chavez to block oil sales if US tries to assassinate him
 02/20 -  Report: Millions misspent on US port security
 02/20 -  War critics plan new push
 02/20 -  NC Democrats buck party insiders to elect new chair
 02/19 -  White House warned about 'news' videos
 02/19 -  Fake White House reporter speaks out
 02/18 -  Fearing indecency charge, PBS bleeps Iraq War documentary
 02/18 -  Army destroyed photos of prisoner abuse
 02/18 -  EPA to review NC air quality petition
 02/18 -  US spending $127 billion to create army of robots
 02/18 -  New data signal severe climate change crisis
 02/18 -  Will Negroponte's past disappear down the memory hole?
 02/18 -  Democrats push election reform
 02/18 -  White House pressed on fake reporter
 02/18 -  Will Amendment One boost economic development?
 02/17 -  Despite denials, Ridge met with Bush campaign officials
 02/17 -  Bush spending on PR blurs the role of media
 02/17 -  New rules on factory-farm pollution draw fire
 02/17 -  Social Security cure: procrastination
 02/17 -  Negroponte controversial pick for US spy chief
 02/17 -  US media: Embedded in the spin cycle
 02/17 -  Mergers raise concern over Internet access
 02/17 -  Easley will try to cut flood relief plan
 02/17 -  NC seeks new strategy to lure jobs
 02/16 -  Privatizing the public interest
 02/16 -  What we don't know about 9/11 hurts us
 02/16 -  Bush open to raising income cap for Social Security taxes
 02/16 -  'Kyoto' era begins
 02/16 -  Personal data-mining firm hacked, exposing thousands to identity theft
 02/16 -  GOP leaders say tax hikes for Social Security are possible
 02/16 -  Air pollution linked to chromosome damage in fetuses
 02/16 -  WNC storm relief plan proposed
 02/15 -  Krugman: The meaning of Dean
 02/15 -  Fox News' Brit Hume cited for 'historical fraud'
 02/15 -  Pataki knocks GOP state chair for attack on Democrats
 02/15 -  Appeals court rules against journalists in CIA leak case
 02/15 -  'Star Wars' missile defense continues string of failures
 02/15 -  Fraud rampant in Iraq War contracting
 02/14 -  Low-power radio pioneer continues electronic civil disobedience
 02/14 -  Rapture awaits in the Florida Panhandle
 02/14 -  Are donors censoring campus speech?
 02/14 -  Ossie Davis, never afraid to do the right thing
 02/14 -  Bush budget will affect college students
 02/11 -  Flood relief in WNC
 02/11 -  Liberals, conservatives oppose 'anti-immigrant' bill
 02/11 -  Getting the (purple) finger from Iraq
 02/11 -  Fake White House reporter identified
 02/11 -  Did the Times kill a story that could have changed the election?
 02/11 -  Democrats find a defiant voice
 02/11 -  Playwright Arthur Miller dead at 89
 02/11 -  Early 2001 memo warned Bush of al Qaeda threat
 02/11 -  FCC says cable systems not required to carry new broadcast channels
 02/10 -  Fake news, fake reporter
 02/10 -  NC panel calls for ballot paper trail
 02/10 -  Cable company's upgrade surcharge sparks dispute
 02/10 -  Government propaganda linked to White House
 02/10 -  FAA received many warnings of al Qaeda attack before 9/11
 02/10 -  Keep the 'multi-millionaire tax'
 02/09 -  White House warms to Indonesia's abusive military
 02/09 -  Bush budget plan fractures GOP
 02/09 -  Bill Moyers apologizes to James Watt for apocryphal quote
 02/09 -  Our Godless Constitution
 02/09 -  Chomsky calls Shiite-controlled Iraq the 'ultimate nightmare'
 02/09 -  US paper recycling at all-time high
 02/09 -  NC attorney general warns of Internet identity theft scheme
 02/09 -  Medicare drug benefit cost jumps to $1.2 trillion
 02/08 -  Copyright excesses block broadcast of civil rights film
 02/08 -  Big Cable sells porn while funding politicians
 02/08 -  Bush's budget hits NC hard
 02/08 -  A breathtaking budget
 02/08 -  Back from Iraq -- and homeless
 02/07 -  Liberty needs a lesson plan
 02/07 -  Locking up a 'little old lady from Switzerland'
 02/07 -  Why getting sick can mean going broke
 02/07 -  Religious right fights science for heart of America
 02/07 -  Cable TV rates up 5.4 percent in 2003
 02/07 -  FCC silences micro-radio station in Knoxville
 02/06 -  Clarke: Terrorism's roots in colonial rule
 02/06 -  Labor hopes to organize service workers in the South
 02/06 -  CIA agrees to give Nazi records to Congress
 02/06 -  Court gives Big Tobacco upper hand
 02/06 -  The propaganda president
 02/06 -  Iraq media coverage: "What's wrong with this picture?"
 02/06 -  Dismantling Social Security longstanding right-wing dream
 02/06 -  Short on cash, DOT delays road projects
 02/06 -  Tennessee school bans veterans' group
 02/05 -  GOP's media machine modeled after CIA's 'Mighty Wurlitzer'
 02/05 -  Dean close to Democratic Party chairmanship
 02/05 -  Tapes reveal Enron's market manipulation
 02/04 -  Edwards to head Center for Poverty, Work & Opportunity
 02/04 -  Cobb concedes defeat in NC ag race
 02/04 -  A Super Bowl commercial revisited
 02/04 -  An anatomy of US nationalism
 02/04 -  Gambling with retirement
 02/04 -  Elected official barred from Bush speech in North Dakota
 02/04 -  Bush taps Iran-Contra felon for national security post
 02/04 -  "Journalists must be free of obligation . . ."
 02/04 -  Contradictions mar Bush plan for Social Security
 02/04 -  Schools buy food from WNC farms
 02/04 -  The gulf between Bush's words and deeds
 02/04 -  Personal bankruptcy linked to inadequate health insurance
 02/03 -  Study finds lawsuits not causing malpractice crisis
 02/03 -  War crimes alleged against Rumsfeld in Germany
 02/03 -  The case of the missing mercury
 02/03 -  Robert Byrd on the Gonzales nomination
 02/03 -  IndyLink featured by columnist Eric Alterman
 02/03 -  MAIN featured by columnist Eric Alterman
 02/02 -  Tom Delay defense fund donor put on House ethics panel
 02/02 -  New online directory lists local media arts resources
 02/02 -  Gonzales fails to unite
 02/02 -  Propaganda suspicions reach White House press corps
 02/02 -  WNC towns, counties go to court -- a lot
 02/02 -  Chemical companies target historians for revealing cancer links
 02/02 -  Tax trends point to 'new feudalism'
 02/02 -  The Vietnam election turnout was also good
 02/02 -  NC lottery given better odds
 02/02 -  WNC storm relief hits snag
 02/01 -  Disappearing coral reefs alarm scientists
 02/01 -  Wall Street Journal reports budget gap with Halliburton
 02/01 -  Fox bully is crybaby on Canada
 02/01 -  Train wreck of an election?
 02/01 -  Senate to debate Gonzales' role in prisoner abuse
 02/01 -  Military trials at Guantanamo ruled unconstitutional
 02/01 -  Networks refuse ad opposing Bush on lawsuits
 02/01 -  Survey: US students ignorant of First Amendment; favor government control of the press
 02/01 -  NC paramedics fired after calling live man dead