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MAIN News Archives for April 2007

 04/30 -  We Are One America to hold immigrant rights vigils
 04/30 -  McKibben: Think globally, act neighborly
 04/30 -  Why political operatives should not run the CIA
 04/30 -  All the president's media men
 04/30 -  Trickle-down conservatism infects America
 04/30 -  Tenet: CIA warned of 'anarchy' in Iraq
 04/30 -  Reversing some Alzheimer's memory loss may be possible
 04/30 -  NC cities join fight on global warming
 04/30 -  Kucinich talks peace, honor at UNCA
 04/30 -  Mental illness going unreported to US gun-check database
 04/30 -  Congress pecks away at CEO pay
 04/30 -  Lawmakers seek probe of private security forces in Iraq
 04/30 -  Inspectors find rebuilt projects crumbling in Iraq
 04/26 -  Ex-CIA chief, in new book, assails Cheney on Iraq
 04/26 -  WNC dairy farmers squeezed by Big Business
 04/26 -  Is China outdoing the US in carbon reduction?
 04/26 -  Poll: Muslims are not united behind Al Qaeda
 04/26 -  Corruption growing in 'carbon-credit' trading
 04/26 -  Shareholders force 'green' review of mining company
 04/26 -  Presidential hopefuls tout climate-change plans
 04/26 -  China moves to shrink its carbon footprint
 04/26 -  Bending federal agencies to party politics
 04/26 -  Special Counsel's ties to conservative groups raises doubts about probe
 04/26 -  Election briefings at federal agencies exposed
 04/25 -  Inaccurate reports on combat deaths hurt US military's credibility
 04/25 -  Madison County sewage treatment plant hearing postponed
 04/25 -  Bill Moyers: When US media succumb to the 'patriot police'
 04/25 -  Saving energy and farmland by eating locally
 04/25 -  House panel votes to subpoena Rice on Iraq claims
 04/25 -  David Halberstam's 'A Letter to My Daughter' (1982)
 04/25 -  Supreme Court reviews limits on political ads
 04/25 -  Putting teeth into NC's public records law
 04/25 -  Buncombe passes zoning ordinance
 04/24 -  Are the rich unfairly taxed?
 04/24 -  Asheville City Council postpones steep slope vote
 04/24 -  A New Deal for America's young
 04/24 -  Bush flunks Diplomacy 101
 04/24 -  Office of Special Counsel to investigate Rove
 04/24 -  David Halberstam, 73, reporter and author, dies
 04/24 -  FCC seeks crackdown on TV violence
 04/24 -  Ranger alleges cover-up in Tillman case
 04/24 -  Supreme Court to hear case involving searches of car passengers
 04/24 -  Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
 04/23 -  Elizabeth Drew: War in Washington
 04/23 -  Student loan scandal: How privatizing leads to profiteering
 04/23 -  Congress to revisit background checks for gun buyers
 04/23 -  Women's reproductive rights gain in Latin America
 04/23 -  Cherokee reclaim Chowee Mound
 04/23 -  Bill Moyers on how the press blew it on Iraq
 04/23 -  How corporate hip-hop boosts violent crime
 04/23 -  Dole says no to Navy airfield
 04/23 -  A step forward in public financing of elections
 04/21 -  E.O. Wilson: Acting now to save life on Earth
 04/21 -  US rules made Virginia killer ineligible to purchase gun
 04/21 -  Infant deaths rise in the South
 04/21 -  US House acts on CEO pay
 04/21 -  Bill McKibben: Finally, an Earth Day with promise
 04/21 -  Green energy going large-scale
 04/21 -  Is the Attorney General manipulative or clueless?
 04/20 -  This Earth Day, a focus on earth's warming
 04/20 -  Vermont senate adopts resolution to impeach Bush, Cheney
 04/20 -  John Hope Franklin: Apologies aren't enough
 04/20 -  Where computers go to die
 04/20 -  Ex-Dean manager joins Edwards campaign
 04/20 -  Armed to the gills
 04/20 -  Audit reveals over-billing by mental health providers
 04/19 -  US releases known terrorist
 04/19 -  Blacksburg & Baghdad: The human face of death
 04/19 -  Justice Department's selective view of voter fraud
 04/19 -  WNC at forefront of green revolution
 04/19 -  Kurt Vonnegut on war as a 'children's crusade'
 04/19 -  White House tried to curb election turnout in key states
 04/19 -  Bill seeks tougher public records penalties for NC
 04/19 -  Wally Bowen: It's time to bust up the media trusts
 04/18 -  Bush effect boosts green economy
 04/18 -  US House holds first hearing on organic farming
 04/18 -  Show me the air time
 04/18 -  Global warming denialists: 'Doubt is our product'
 04/18 -  Teams sent to assess storm damage in WNC
 04/18 -  Why the gun lobby usually wins
 04/18 -  Could global warming cause war?
 04/18 -  Supreme Court upholds partial-birth abortion ban
 04/17 -  The PR push for 'clean coal'
 04/17 -  Facing up to violence in America
 04/17 -  Bill McKibben on 'Step It Up!'
 04/17 -  Behind the Virginia Tech massacre
 04/17 -  Wild salmon win respite in US court
 04/17 -  Bush's choice on funding the troops
 04/17 -  Edwards woos rural voters
 04/16 -  Hidden truths of progressive taxes
 04/16 -  When layoff is the reward for experience
 04/16 -  How one US attorney avoided firing
 04/16 -  Retired generals, admirals worried about climate change
 04/15 -  IRS audits target the middle class more since 2000
 04/15 -  Tom Friedman jumps in front of the 'green' parade
 04/15 -  PBS takes $20 million look at 9/11 and its aftermath
 04/13 -  A conversation with Bill McKibben
 04/13 -  Frances Fitzgerald: 'The Evangelical Surprise'
 04/13 -  Lawyer: Rove didn't mean to delete email
 04/13 -  Edwards urges Congress to stand up to Bush
 04/13 -  Imus scandal spotlights misuse of the public airwaves
 04/13 -  Biofuel firm expanding to seven WNC counties
 04/13 -  Breaking the Army
 04/13 -  Climate change rally set for Saturday
 04/13 -  Study says NC's carbon emissions up sharply
 04/12 -  How student loans fleece US taxpayers
 04/12 -  Former NSA chief's plan for getting out of Iraq
 04/12 -  Google maps the Darfur crisis
 04/12 -  Missing e-mails may be linked to US attorney firings
 04/12 -  NC film festival entries document legacy of injustice
 04/12 -  Edwards works nursing home shift
 04/12 -  Kurt Vonnegut: 'So it goes'
 04/12 -  It's time to take back the airwaves
 04/12 -  A greener planet begins under the kitchen sink
 04/12 -  Key climate question: what's the cost of carbon?
 04/12 -  NC House vote makes apology for slavery official
 04/11 -  Federal panel probing election fraud altered findings
 04/11 -  Senate passes stem-cell research bill
 04/11 -  The politics of Madison County
 04/11 -  Fear and loathing at the Charlotte Observer
 04/11 -  Cuts in local mental health services called 'catastrophic'
 04/11 -  New York AG: School loan corruption widespread
 04/11 -  Warren Wilson to host local food forum
 04/11 -  Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America
 04/11 -  House panel to probe US reports on Tillman, Jessica Lynch
 04/10 -  Congress asserts Constitutional authority over war spending
 04/10 -  Student loan scandal probe may reach federal level
 04/10 -  Will ethanol bonanza gut global food supplies?
 04/10 -  Student loan probe examines fees paid to financial aid officers
 04/10 -  MAIN's sustainability website featured in Citizen-Times
 04/09 -  FEMA trailer contracts highlight post-Katrina waste, corruption
 04/09 -  What about the US attorneys who didn't get fired?
 04/09 -  Gutting the US Justice Department
 04/09 -  Global warming crisis creates opening for nuclear power
 04/09 -  US attorney scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school
 04/09 -  Gingrich links Spanish to 'living in a ghetto'
 04/09 -  ASU to host forum on liveable communities
 04/09 -  New constraints on Bush environment policies
 04/09 -  Freeze dooms apple crop
 04/08 -  Resisting the war on science
 04/08 -  After Bush's 'Beltway Bubble,' can Democrats revive the private sector?
 04/08 -  Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here'?
 04/08 -  Court favors Asheville in annexation case
 04/08 -  Risks rise as drugmakers move from factories to farms
 04/07 -  Nader: Remember to file for telephone excise tax refund!
 04/07 -  Big Oil's vendetta against the electric car
 04/07 -  Google facility in SC raises questions about NC deal
 04/07 -  Enabling prime-time racism
 04/07 -  Edwards to skip Fox News debate, citing bias
 04/06 -  As coral reefs die, global fish stocks decline
 04/06 -  Bush names regulatory chief who opposes regulation
 04/06 -  Jim Crow-era voting law reversed in Florida
 04/06 -  Scientists detail climate changes, poles to tropics
 04/06 -  Gonzales aide Monica Goodling resigns
 04/06 -  How will global warming affect WNC?
 04/06 -  Straight talk from GOP's Walter Jones
 04/06 -  Documents reveal Pentagon scheme to link Iraq to 9/11
 04/06 -  Former employee blows whistle on Wal-Mart spying on critics
 04/05 -  Circuit City points to the future
 04/05 -  Who will pay for the news?
 04/05 -  The true cost of campaigning
 04/05 -  Global warming denialists feeling the heat
 04/05 -  AppState scientists, students study global warming
 04/05 -  Boss Hog of North Carolina
 04/05 -  Coping with water scarcity
 04/05 -  In a warmer world, global forecast is 'mostly dry'
 04/04 -  The nightmare of American prisons
 04/04 -  Bush, Congress should be reminded of balance of powers
 04/04 -  As foreclosures mount, states step in
 04/04 -  Why Big Media ignore the last years of MLK's life
 04/04 -  Connecting the dots between imperial presidency and national security
 04/04 -  Karl Rove's rap
 04/04 -  How should we deal with unprincipled citizen journalists?
 04/04 -  NC leaders told that launching biofuels industry will be costly
 04/03 -  Former auditors say US is blocking recovery of oil and gas fees
 04/03 -  Expression of regret for slavery proposed in NC
 04/03 -  Circuit City layoffs mark demise of another safety net
 04/03 -  Honeybee disappearance puzzles scientists
 04/03 -  Why the Christian Right distorts history, and why it matters
 04/03 -  Woodfin nixes power plant
 04/02 -  A progressive federal budget
 04/02 -  Privacy advocates fight for ground lost after 9/11
 04/02 -  Supreme Court: EPA must address climate risk
 04/02 -  There's more than money at stake in Viacom-YouTube battle
 04/02 -  Lapdog pundits circle the wagons around Karl Rove
 04/02 -  Naomi Klein on privatizing war and essential state services
 04/02 -  Supreme Court rules against Duke Energy on plant emissions
 04/02 -  How to win the war on poverty
 04/02 -  It's a plug-in hybrid -- and a school bus!
 04/02 -  Guiliani picks up steam in North Carolina
 04/01 -  House GOP leaders blow whistle on prescription drug law
 04/01 -  'Blackwater' reveals US use of unaccountable mercenary fighters
 04/01 -  Judge strikes down Bush forest management rules
 04/01 -  Power plant tries new way to capture CO2