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MAIN News Archives for March 2005

 03/31 -  Bill Bradley on rebuilding the Democratic Party
 03/31 -  Report: Spy agencies 'dead wrong' on Iraq WMDs
 03/31 -  Schiavo judge blasts Bush, Congress
 03/31 -  So much media, so little attention span?
 03/30 -  PBS cuts commercial deal with cable for childrens' shows
 03/30 -  Older workers get a new tool to fight age discrimination
 03/30 -  EPA's weak limits on mercury ignore other toxins
 03/30 -  Fine-print video rental fees draw fire
 03/30 -  Easley proposes safety net for at-risk children
 03/30 -  John Danforth: GOP moving in 'wrong direction'
 03/30 -  Judges question cable's control of Net access
 03/30 -  Bush faces decline in approval ratings
 03/30 -  New report says Earth's health is worsening
 03/30 -  Supreme Courtt protects Title IX whistleblower
 03/29 -  Protesters, for a change, taken seriously by US media
 03/29 -  Faiths vary on life-and-death care choices
 03/29 -  Former diplomats oppose Bolton confirmation
 03/29 -  Don't bankrupt Amtrak
 03/29 -  Cleaning up TV?
 03/28 -  Trust-fund truths
 03/28 -  Indian tribe at center of growing Washington scandal
 03/28 -  Support for GOP reaps rewards for key industries
 03/28 -  Few low-income elderly apply for free-drug benefit
 03/27 -  Reducing God to a political tool
 03/27 -  NC Medicaid faces huge cuts
 03/27 -  Tom Delay agreed to remove his father from life-support in 1988
 03/27 -  Imax theaters shun films that reference evolution
 03/27 -  Mercury meltdown: EPA ignored results of its own study
 03/27 -  In a blow to consumers, FCC favors Bells in DSL vote
 03/27 -  Life, death and cynical grandstanding
 03/27 -  New FBI documents reveal more Saudi flights after 9/11
 03/27 -  When reality intrudes on Bush's scripted show
 03/26 -  Pressure growing on US military recruiters
 03/26 -  Red -- Wal-Mart's true colors
 03/25 -  Left and right unite against Patriot Act
 03/25 -  Poll shows evangelicals oppose government action in Schiavo case
 03/25 -  Phil Donahue on fixing the media
 03/25 -  Critics: GOP has deserted core principles
 03/23 -  Feds mum on altered corn entering food supply
 03/23 -  A small town pays the big box price
 03/23 -  Premature euphoria over Mideast democracy?
 03/23 -  Medicare to cover smoking cessation programs
 03/22 -  Catholic bishops launch new drive against death penalty
 03/22 -  Lawmakers probe Wal-Mart's drain on taxpayers
 03/22 -  Cherokee look to children to preserve language
 03/22 -  US media downplay Iraq War deaths
 03/22 -  Privatizing local water systems in the US
 03/22 -  Activists urge FCC to investigate fake news
 03/22 -  Mountain air quality shows slight improvement
 03/22 -  Does law Bush signed in Texas contradict Schiavo law?
 03/22 -  Fake news fits pattern of deception
 03/22 -  Medical, ethical issues of Schiavo case largely decided, experts say
 03/21 -  House GOP risk being tainted by Delay
 03/21 -  The politics of a life in the balance
 03/21 -  Study: Media self-censored some Iraq War coverage
 03/21 -  Thousands protest war at Fort Bragg
 03/20 -  How could Delay not have known?
 03/20 -  TV's role in fake news
 03/20 -  Discharged and Dishonored: Shortchanging America's Vets
 03/20 -  GOP memo cites political gains of Schiavo case
 03/20 -  Ralph Nader on Tom Delay
 03/20 -  NC attorney general pushes privacy protection bill
 03/20 -  Washington's fiscal insanity
 03/20 -  The dirty little secret of Alaska oil drilling
 03/20 -  Filibuster of 1968 cited as precedent
 03/18 -  FCC freezes low-power radio licenses
 03/18 -  Gerry Spence: Americans are being lied to about lawsuit crisis
 03/18 -  NC drops to 40th in school funding
 03/17 -  More than 100 POWs have died in US custody
 03/17 -  Enron: Patron saint of Bush's fake news
 03/17 -  More than 500 anti-war events planned across US
 03/17 -  New FCC chair has deep Tar Heel roots
 03/17 -  Why delay cuts in mercury pollution until 2018?
 03/17 -  Bill would tighten rules on lobbying in NC
 03/17 -  Poll: Most Americans believe Iraq War was unnecessary
 03/17 -  Arctic Refuge and US public about to get drilled
 03/17 -  Dial-up Internet users less subject to hacking
 03/16 -  NC native named to head FCC
 03/16 -  Chilean dictator stashed millions in US banks
 03/16 -  C-SPAN's balance of the absurd
 03/16 -  Will Appalachian artifacts remain off-limits in storage?
 03/15 -  African-American youth are rejecting the Army, military says
 03/15 -  White House says fake news is legal
 03/15 -  Scandal around Tom Delay widens
 03/15 -  Study suggests mountain living is good for the heart
 03/15 -  Bush plan will allow some power plants to emit more mercury
 03/15 -  Halliburton cited for $100 million overcharge
 03/15 -  It's time to "change the story" of US foreign policy
 03/15 -  Redefining news
 03/14 -  Adversaries seek common ground on abortion
 03/14 -  Wal-Mart plays the race card
 03/14 -  Biltmore Estate celebrates 75 years
 03/14 -  Why Bush must destroy Social Security
 03/14 -  As corporate taxes shrink, who pays the difference?
 03/14 -  Floods, drought feared as Himalayan glaciers melt
 03/14 -  The GOP abroad
 03/14 -  Bankruptcy bill said to hit poor hardest
 03/13 -  Under Bush, is it news or propaganda?
 03/13 -  Asheville native writes book on sex and chastity
 03/12 -  The man Democrats hope will take the Hill
 03/11 -  Kerry pledges to fight Bush on Alaska oil drilling
 03/11 -  EPA cuts power plant emissions
 03/11 -  Judicial nominees are back -- and still unworthy
 03/11 -  Remembering all those arguments 1,500 deaths ago
 03/11 -  GOP leader Delay faces fundraising, travel questions
 03/11 -  Post-flood river clean-up set for Sunday
 03/10 -  FCC urged to withhold low-power radio licenses
 03/10 -  Does God owe us an apology?
 03/10 -  Watauga County officials oppose 'Clear Skies'
 03/10 -  ABC censors free speech episode of 'Boston Legal'
 03/10 -  WNC spa owners take a bath
 03/10 -  Bush's Social Security proposal takes hit
 03/10 -  Ex-Marine says 'spider hole' capture of Saddam was staged
 03/10 -  Driver's license bill draws fire from immigrant groups
 03/10 -  Sylva turns down Lowe's request for tax incentive
 03/10 -  Korean junket implicates Delay in ethics probe
 03/09 -  Obscure tax-breaks draw new scrutiny
 03/09 -  Evidence grows of Tom Delay's role in corporate funding scandal
 03/09 -  NC counties need Medicaid relief
 03/09 -  'Clear Skies' bill fails in Senate
 03/09 -  Doing the minimum for workers
 03/09 -  Facts obscured on Social Security
 03/09 -  EPA distorted mercury analysis, GAO says
 03/08 -  NC's hard-earned gains in air quality should not be rolled back
 03/08 -  More schools are saying 'No' to logos
 03/08 -  Shame on Congress for bankruptcy bill
 03/08 -  Credit card penalties, fees bury debtors
 03/08 -  George W. Bush vs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
 03/07 -  Messing with Social Security
 03/07 -  Bush accused of 'fiddling while world burns' via climate change
 03/07 -  Got compost? Check the ingredients
 03/07 -  Killing Amtrak in order to save it?
 03/07 -  Democrats told to get right with Jesus
 03/07 -  Community supported agriculture: better citizenship, better food
 03/07 -  Internet surpasses radio for political news, survey finds
 03/07 -  The man behind Social Security 'reform'
 03/06 -  The Texas DA and Tom Delay
 03/06 -  When the news is the party line
 03/06 -  US media serve the powerful and wealthy
 03/06 -  Social Security 'reform' based on deficits and deceit
 03/06 -  'Anti-politician' uses art and creativity to lead major city
 03/05 -  When Democrats join the dark side
 03/05 -  NC over-billed $19 million by Texas firm, audit charges
 03/05 -  Greenspan's teflon wearing thin
 03/05 -  Gannon-gate: 'Where is the outrage?'
 03/04 -  10 steps for a more democratic media
 03/04 -  Robert Byrd: 'Nuking' free speech in the US Senate
 03/04 -  Foreign media provide news of frontline US troops in Iraq
 03/04 -  Gonzo is gone, Rather is going, but Watergate is still here
 03/04 -  The Democrats' 'mini-Deans' down South
 03/03 -  Are colleges an 'endangered species'?
 03/03 -  Credit-card industry greed pushing new bankruptcy law
 03/03 -  Filibustering the truth
 03/03 -  Civil rights groups oppose NC judicial nominee
 03/03 -  From Gonzo journalism to bootlicking
 03/03 -  Leak of CIA agent's name is not journalism's sin
 03/03 -  New poll finds Bush priorities out of step with Americans
 03/03 -  Critics challenge Easley's plan to cut top tax
 03/03 -  Survey: Many undocumented Mexicans welcome guest-worker program
 03/02 -  New York Public Library putting images online for free
 03/02 -  North Shore Road opponents see no compromise
 03/02 -  Thurmond urged FBI to label King a 'communist,' memo reveals
 03/02 -  Key senator asks Bush to pull judicial nominees
 03/02 -  Do progressives and Democrats have a future in the South?
 03/02 -  Dan Rather's retirement and his 'liberal bias'
 03/02 -  Vermont towns call for pullout of US troops in Iraq
 03/02 -  Speaking truth on the environment
 03/01 -  Despite whistleblowers, US turns blind eye to corporate fraud in Iraq
 03/01 -  GOP steamrolls bankruptcy bill pushed by credit card industry
 03/01 -  How the government continues the torture cover-up
 03/01 -  Rumsfeld sued over prisoner abuse
 03/01 -  'Clear Skies' critics from WNC speak out
 03/01 -  Is US foreign policy alienating Latin America?
 03/01 -  Will the Supreme Court curb eminent domain?
 03/01 -  Supreme Court abolishes juvenile death penalty
 03/01 -  The most secret tax-exempt society the media will not tell you about
 03/01 -  Judicial nomination battles begin anew
 03/01 -  Artists break with industry on file-sharing

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