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MAIN News Archives for February 2006

 02/28 -  Halliburton's sweetheart deals continue
 02/27 -  NC firm pierces China's firewalls
 02/27 -  High-tech firms looking to rural America?
 02/27 -  US savings rate hits historic low
 02/25 -  Reaping the fruits of hysteria
 02/25 -  Murtha's civil war prediction coming true
 02/24 -  FBI memos reveal abusive interrogation
 02/24 -  Study supports predatory lending laws
 02/24 -  Congressman wants probe of Citgo's oil for the poor
 02/23 -  The United States of Appalachia
 02/23 -  Henderson County: Give public access TV a good look
 02/22 -  MAIN spends decade webbing WNC
 02/22 -  NC widens DOT graft probe
 02/22 -  Neocon architect having second thoughts
 02/21 -  DOT: Trucks do $99 million damage in NC
 02/21 -  Web technologies spur small businesses
 02/21 -  US secretly reclassifying public documents
 02/21 -  The Neocons' long war
 02/21 -  Does Bush plan to tax wireless Internet?
 02/21 -  Toll booths on the Internet highway
 02/21 -  Cable panel debates public access TV
 02/21 -  Black vows reforms, more 'transparency'
 02/21 -  Bush plan would privatize WNC public lands
 02/21 -  Only citizens can break the military-industrial complex
 02/20 -  NC to revamp teacher training
 02/18 -  Henderson forum targets cable franchise
 02/18 -  Plug pulled on renewable energy gurus
 02/18 -  Discrepancies abound in VP accident tale
 02/18 -  A taxonomy of intelligence leaks
 02/18 -  New census report reignites poverty debate
 02/18 -  ABC's 'scoop' is more WMD misinformation
 02/17 -  Bush-Cheney relish the media's anger
 02/17 -  MAIN turns 10
 02/16 -  How 'taking responsibility' means 'no accountability'
 02/16 -  Don't let phone giants take over the Internet!
 02/16 -  Art for a very hot planet
 02/16 -  America's failure to say 'No'
 02/16 -  Rights group calls for full disclosure on Abu Ghraib
 02/16 -  NASA muzzled on global warming before '04 election
 02/15 -  Conservationists rap plan to sell public lands in the Carolinas
 02/15 -  Ohio board reverses stand on evolution
 02/15 -  Surge in whistle-blowing spurs reprisals
 02/15 -  More confessions of an 'economic hit-man'
 02/15 -  Ex-staffer blasts WNC air quality board
 02/15 -  'Network neutrality" and the future of the Internet
 02/15 -  New movie portrays US soldiers as brutal killers
 02/15 -  'Smart growth' becoming a bipartisan issue?
 02/15 -  Political reforms proposed for NC
 02/15 -  Lottery staff fumble logo design
 02/14 -  Bush plan to sell public land is fiscally, morally irresponsible
 02/14 -  White House gives control of six US ports to Arab firm
 02/14 -  US plans $7 billion giveaway to Big Oil
 02/14 -  The war against privacy
 02/14 -  Cheney shot a Texas liberal
 02/14 -  Bush spends $1.6 billion on PR to sell policies
 02/14 -  NC lottery money not just for schools?
 02/13 -  Latin American democracies tackle poverty
 02/13 -  'War on Terror' rebranded as the 'Long War'
 02/13 -  Some are in a snit about Mrs. King's funeral
 02/13 -  GOP fears backlash on Bush budget
 02/12 -  Photo shows Bush, Abramoff at meeting
 02/12 -  Watchdog put Black on the spot
 02/12 -  Garrison Keillor on George W. Bush
 02/11 -  A sheep-like nation is allowing the erosion of our liberties and well-being
 02/11 -  Top CIA veteran says Bush misled US to war
 02/11 -  Three more GOP members of Congress linked to Abramoff
 02/11 -  Black campaign broke law, official says
 02/11 -  Hundreds of radio stations in payola probe
 02/11 -  FCC report: 'a la carte' could cut cable TV rates
 02/10 -  Spotlight shines brighter on Black
 02/10 -  UNC board approves tuition, fee increases
 02/10 -  NBC distorts its polling on warrantless wiretaps
 02/10 -  Bush proposes national forest sale of 200,000 acres
 02/10 -  Ex-Cheney aide testified that CIA leak was ordered, prosecutor says
 02/10 -  White House told of levee breach the night Katrina hit
 02/10 -  Black admits to filling in blank checks
 02/09 -  State department sees exodus of weapons experts
 02/09 -  US plans massive data sweep
 02/09 -  Sen. Russ Feingold on illegal wiretapping
 02/09 -  Consider the $100 laptop
 02/09 -  Senators mull an Internet with restrictions
 02/09 -  BellSouth continues push to change the Internet
 02/08 -  Evangelicals call for global warming action
 02/08 -  NC Elections Board opens hearings in Raleigh
 02/08 -  Speaking truth to power at Coretta Scott King's funeral
 02/07 -  Conservatives ask: 'Is Bush still one of us?'
 02/07 -  Carter calls domestic spying 'disgraceful and illegal'
 02/07 -  Kids develop taste for homegrown foods
 02/06 -  What did Betty Friedan's work mean to you?
 02/06 -  The lies of Alberto Gonzales
 02/06 -  Bush, GOP spur return of big government
 02/06 -  Coal country, where land and people become commodities
 02/06 -  What once was private now belongs to Google
 02/06 -  White House spying defense rests on shaky ground
 02/06 -  Telecoms let NSA spy on calls
 02/06 -  Abramoff's evangelical soldiers
 02/05 -  Politicians are stifling dissent, critics say
 02/05 -  AOL, Yahoo to charge postage for email
 02/04 -  Gingrich rewrites history and the media comply
 02/04 -  US media at 'all-time low'
 02/04 -  Cost of wars soars to $440 billion
 02/04 -  Burr reassures farmers on migrant workers
 02/04 -  The gas-tax non-crisis in NC
 02/03 -  Justifying America's 'big ear'
 02/03 -  The squeeze on American pocketbooks
 02/03 -  Is this the end of the Internet?
 02/03 -  'Quasi-Corporatism' -- America's homegrown fascism
 02/03 -  Supreme Court nears crucial abortion ruling
 02/02 -  Investigators criticize federal response to Katrina
 02/02 -  White House records tied to CIA leak case may be lost
 02/02 -  NC Board of Elections issues 100 subpoenas
 02/02 -  Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Middle East oil imports
 02/02 -  Propaganda campaign may violate Pentagon rules
 02/02 -  Polls cast doubt on public's intelligence
 02/01 -  Record profits spark backlash against Big Oil
 02/01 -  Cindy Sheehan's arrest, in her own words
 02/01 -  Police apologize, drop charges against Cindy Sheehan