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MAIN News Archives for October 2006

 10/31 -  Federal judges show their GOP stripes
 10/31 -  Voter suppression efforts believed to be widespread
 10/31 -  Used computers for WNC citizens with disabilities
 10/31 -  Bill McKibben: News from the frontier of climate catastrophe
 10/31 -  Molly Ivins on GOP ineptitude and advice for Democrats
 10/31 -  Memo reveals advertiser 'blacklist' against Air America
 10/31 -  A country ruled by faith
 10/31 -  George W. Bush, cheerleader-in-chief
 10/31 -  As election nears, a flood of nastiness
 10/31 -  The GOP's push for 'One Party Country'
 10/31 -  Global warming could trigger worldwide depression
 10/30 -  Some conservatives say they won't be fooled again
 10/30 -  Thousands of US weapons missing in Iraq
 10/30 -  Public input sought on I-26 corridor alternatives
 10/30 -  The torture election
 10/30 -  The GOP's crack character assassin
 10/30 -  Is progressive grassroots activism rootless?
 10/30 -  Taylor-Shuler race drawing widespread attention
 10/30 -  FCC may dodge 'net neutrality' issue in AT&T deal
 10/29 -  Has Corporate America no shame? Or memory?
 10/29 -  Post-Enron, corporations seek new protections
 10/29 -  Scientists scramble to save hemlocks
 10/29 -  Filings show Taylor's reliance on his own money
 10/29 -  A progressive look at NC judicial races
 10/29 -  Shuler offers hope for a new direction
 10/29 -  Taylor-Shuler election could impact 'Road to Nowhere'
 10/29 -  GAO chief warns economic disaster looms
 10/28 -  A shameful retreat from American values
 10/28 -  Promise of biofuels is overrated, report says
 10/27 -  Can journalism escape Wall Street's death grip?
 10/27 -  Is this the worst Congress ever?
 10/27 -  Former Bush official sentenced in lobbying scandal
 10/27 -  Study: GOP mudslinging reaches industrial scale
 10/27 -  Can this election yield a progressive mandate?
 10/27 -  Compounding the outrage of sleazy attack ads
 10/27 -  Poll: Middle-class voters abandoning the GOP
 10/27 -  Marketers use Halloween to sell teen sex
 10/26 -  Overhead costs consume budget for Iraq reconstruction
 10/26 -  Watchdog group accuses churches of political action
 10/26 -  Voter registration lists may foil voters
 10/26 -  Torture and the nation's soul
 10/26 -  US rank on press freedom slides lower
 10/26 -  Bush angst over Chavez is all about oil
 10/26 -  Dumping on minorities in North Carolina
 10/26 -  Pat Tillman's brother remembers
 10/25 -  The speech President Bush should give
 10/25 -  GOP ramps up election tricks
 10/25 -  Report warns of potential voting problems in 10 states
 10/25 -  FCC reassessing media ownership rules
 10/25 -  All eyes on Tennessee Senate race
 10/25 -  Why no progressives on Sunday morning talk shows?
 10/25 -  Michael J. Fox makes stem-cell political ads
 10/25 -  Active-duty troops call for Iraq pullout
 10/24 -  Attack ad shines light on NC House race
 10/24 -  Generation Y embraces activism
 10/24 -  Bush's 'useful idiots': liberal armchair warriors
 10/24 -  Low-tech solutions for rural roads
 10/24 -  Federal prosecutors targeting GOP lawmakers
 10/24 -  GOP holds narrow lead in must-win Senate races
 10/24 -  More NC kids lack health insurance
 10/24 -  Feds drop the ball on energy efficiency
 10/23 -  Bush-backed cartel locking up Iraqi oil
 10/23 -  Wal-Mart's bait-and-switch on generic drugs
 10/23 -  Time to ban cluster bombs
 10/22 -  Farewell to a mountain orator
 10/22 -  Bush family company profits from 'No Child Left Behind'
 10/22 -  California to vote on oil tax to fund alternative energy
 10/22 -  More than half a billion dollars stolen from Iraqi treasury
 10/22 -  The insecure American
 10/22 -  The Constiution is gutted and America stifles a yawn
 10/21 -  Study finds lack of diversity, balance at PBS NewsHour
 10/21 -  Edwards bashes GOP at Shuler rally
 10/20 -  NC opens Mt. Mitchell bear sanctuary to hunting
 10/20 -  AG opposes Duke Power rate hike to pay for new nuke plants
 10/20 -  Why the Religious Right is vulnerable to authoritarian rule
 10/20 -  Beginning of the end of America
 10/20 -  Judge orders Cheney visitor logs opened
 10/20 -  Pro-business groups dominate airwaves in judicial campaigns
 10/20 -  UNC testing herbal remedies
 10/20 -  Drowning in Grover Norquist's 'bathtub'
 10/19 -  Local farmers grow trust as well as food
 10/19 -  Effort to suppress Latino vote cited in California
 10/19 -  John Edwards to hold rally for Heath Shuler
 10/19 -  Puzzle of NC open meetings law left unsolved
 10/18 -  Karl Rove's 'November Surprise'?
 10/18 -  Health care costs remain important issue for WNC voters
 10/18 -  Iraq endgame approaching, Bush ready or not
 10/18 -  With judicial independence under assault, how should progressives respond?
 10/18 -  Cunningham corruption schemes had many allies
 10/18 -  Health care, wages, energy costs squeeze middle class
 10/18 -  How dangerous are North Korea's nukes?
 10/18 -  Former Bush official says White House exploited religious right
 10/18 -  ACLU sues Asheville over "We Are One America' march
 10/17 -  Bill Moyers on the risk of an 'Imperial Internet'
 10/17 -  Securing your network in a wireless world
 10/17 -  How America changed on Oct. 17
 10/17 -  TV spectrum to be opened for new uses
 10/17 -  The vegetable-industrial complex
 10/16 -  The elephant in the voting booth?
 10/16 -  US coal boom poses major ecological risk
 10/16 -  Suppressing the 2006 vote
 10/16 -  New emails reveal Abramoff's clout in White House
 10/16 -  'Democrats will raise your taxes' claim rings hollow
 10/16 -  'Almost organic' milk catching on
 10/16 -  Political legend Herbert Hyde dead at 80
 10/15 -  'The Undeclared War on the Middle Class'
 10/15 -  Promoting politics from the pulpit
 10/15 -  Seven conservatives say why it's time for the GOP to go
 10/14 -  US intelligence trying to confirm North Korea test
 10/14 -  FBI launches corruption probe of Rep. Curt Weldon
 10/14 -  The sad death of 'organic'
 10/14 -  Buncombe judicial candidates air views in forum
 10/14 -  The Google-YouTube tango
 10/14 -  Will Edwards benefit from Warner's withdrawal?
 10/14 -  NC wields little real power in US House
 10/14 -  Shuler reverses field on debate
 10/13 -  Should Columbus Day be changed to Bush Day?
 10/13 -  Documents reveal scope of Pentagon database on anti-war activists
 10/13 -  Torture's easy embrace
 10/13 -  Lessons learned from right-wing use of language
 10/13 -  Insurance industry joins fight against global warming
 10/13 -  Big bonuses at UNC Health Care stir anger
 10/13 -  WLOS says Taylor campaign is misusing news footage
 10/12 -  Will voters pull the trigger?
 10/12 -  Senate probe finds conservative nonprofits assisted Abramoff
 10/12 -  On whose watch? Three presidents saw North Korea develop bomb
 10/12 -  Wall Street Journal reports Taylor's earmarks
 10/11 -  Sex, lies and elections
 10/11 -  Study finds 654,000 deaths in Iraq War
 10/11 -  Bush painted into corner on North Korea
 10/11 -  North Korea fiasco? Just blame Clinton
 10/11 -  GOP ad claiming Social Security for illegals debunked
 10/11 -  Conservative pickpockets
 10/11 -  Peace Corps looks to retirees for vitality, experience
 10/10 -  North Korea calls Bush's bluff, again
 10/10 -  As religious programs expand, disputes rise over tax breaks
 10/10 -  Bush's war on unions
 10/10 -  NC environmentalists fear Southern purchase of Progress Energy
 10/09 -  Disconnecting the conspiracy dots
 10/09 -  Turning back the clock on government's duty
 10/09 -  The White House and Jack Abramoff
 10/09 -  Taylor hopes debating Shuler will spur rebound
 10/09 -  How feds favor the faithful
 10/09 -  Farmers push for downtown Asheville market
 10/07 -  As organic food goes corporate
 10/07 -  How blogs helped pass federal spending database bill
 10/07 -  Thirty-seven reasons to vote for Big Business
 10/07 -  What the Amish are teaching America
 10/07 -  After son's death and battle with cancer, Elizabeth Edwards hopes to inspire
 10/07 -  Top Rove aide resigns in lobby scandal
 10/06 -  Osama Bin missing -- who tried harder to find him?
 10/06 -  How criticizing Cheney can get you arrested
 10/06 -  Cost, language barrier keep Latinos away from doctor
 10/06 -  America's youth drawn to community, political activism
 10/06 -  Ethics panel members have financial ties to Hastert
 10/06 -  Dean Smith witnesses for Democrats' religion
 10/05 -  Ideas for Democrats?
 10/05 -  Keith Olbermann on the continuing lies of George W. Bush
 10/05 -  Taylor agrees to debate for first time since 1994
 10/05 -  The Republic of Waterboarding
 10/05 -  Rice's lost credibility
 10/05 -  The hidden life of Mark Foley
 10/05 -  On every level, Iraq War is hurting America
 10/05 -  Senior GOP aide resigns; says Hastert was warned of Foley in 2003
 10/04 -  The email slime trail on Capitol Hill
 10/04 -  Conservative leader calls for GOP to clean House
 10/04 -  FCC hears overwhelming opposition to Big Media
 10/04 -  Bush's torture policy hurts our soldiers
 10/04 -  Former Bush counterterrorism advisor speaks out
 10/04 -  Moyers: Lobbying scandals demand an organized, outraged people
 10/04 -  The 'moderate Republican' scam
 10/04 -  NC panel looks at pollution policies
 10/04 -  Actors, musicians oppose US media consolidation
 10/03 -  How ABC News broke the Mark Foley story
 10/03 -  MAIN taps new fundraising head
 10/03 -  Revolt of the generals
 10/03 -  White House reconsiders Iraq media strategy
 10/03 -  Conservative paper says Hastert must go
 10/03 -  Crackdown on Latino workers empties a Georgia town
 10/03 -  Tale of a native WNC son
 10/03 -  Amid lobbying scandal, money still flows
 10/03 -  Rice reverses, admits to July 2001 CIA warning of attack
 10/02 -  Lawmakers challenge BellSouth/AT&T merger over 'spectrum warehousing'
 10/02 -  Woodward says Kissinger is key Bush advisor on Iraq
 10/02 -  Can Howard Dean save the Democratic Party?
 10/02 -  Will the next election be hacked?
 10/02 -  9/11 panel members say they were not told of Rice-Tenet meeting

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