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MAIN News Archives for May 2007

 05/31 -  Edwards bucks Big Media to raise spectrum auction issue
 05/31 -  Boeing subsidiary sued for aiding CIA torture flights
 05/31 -  Valerie Plame sues CIA for blocking her memoir
 05/31 -  Fitzgerald again points to Cheney in CIA leak case
 05/31 -  Ethics isues still dogging GOP
 05/31 -  Reason and religion in NC classrooms
 05/31 -  Budget would bust up NC's green energy office
 05/30 -  Telling lies over the graves of good soldiers
 05/30 -  CBS silences a military dissenter
 05/30 -  Dick Cheney is dead wrong
 05/30 -  Supreme Court limits job-discrimination complaints
 05/30 -  Commercial media system failing democracy, critic claims
 05/30 -  Duke coal plant cost up by 24 percent
 05/30 -  NC industries push for tax break on power
 05/30 -  'Slow Food' founder visits NC
 05/29 -  'Why I'm leaving the Los Angeles Times'
 05/29 -  Cindy Sheehan to leave anti-war movement
 05/29 -  Industries push to ditch NC safety rule
 05/28 -  'Green collar' jobs on the way?
 05/28 -  Immigration bill under assault from powerful interest groups
 05/28 -  House votes for more transparency in campaign donations
 05/28 -  States challenge US over lax emissions rules
 05/28 -  Rethinking car insurance in NC?
 05/28 -  Reagan dissed Asheville lawmaker in his diary
 05/26 -  'Let's grow up Progressives!'
 05/26 -  Review: The Reagan Diaries
 05/26 -  Feature creep
 05/26 -  Sick Justice: How much worse can it get?
 05/26 -  Congress approves minimum wage hike
 05/26 -  Intelligence agencies warned Bush about pitfalls of Iraq invasion
 05/26 -  In NC, immigration bill has vocal friends, foes
 05/26 -  Rethinking solar via magnification
 05/26 -  Heath Shuler, walking the walk
 05/25 -  Top US general speaks out on Iraq
 05/25 -  McClatchy reporters say they're barred from Defense Secretary's plane
 05/25 -  Iraq War opponents attack Democrats over funding bill
 05/25 -  NC asks: 'Got raw milk?'
 05/25 -  Robert Reich on the private equity scam
 05/25 -  For indie filmmakers, the trick is finding an audience
 05/25 -  Fury grows over US immigration bill
 05/25 -  Edwards slams Bush and war on terror 'bumper sticker''
 05/25 -  Valuing the votes of the poor
 05/25 -  Why did the Democrats surrender on Iraq?
 05/25 -  NC judge approves Quran for oath
 05/24 -  Why is Knight Foundation giving $700,000 grant to Viacom?
 05/24 -  With feds slow to act on climate, states step up
 05/24 -  Progress Energy will not appeal Woodfin power plant
 05/24 -  Gonzales aide says he tried to compare stories
 05/23 -  Gore's 'Assault on Reason' makes the case for media reform
 05/23 -  Edwards gambling with Memorial Day offensive?
 05/23 -  It's time to pull over judges who go easy on serial speeders
 05/23 -  FDA's work is under fire
 05/22 -  Secret trade deal between Bush and Democrats undermines democracy
 05/22 -  What would 'bike-friendly' streets look like?
 05/22 -  How America sold its soul in the "Age of Betrayal'
 05/22 -  Scientists report alarming jump in carbon dioxide levels
 05/22 -  Smithsonian accused of altering climate-change exhibit
 05/22 -  NC leaders vow to close speeding loopholes
 05/21 -  Local critics to discuss media trends
 05/21 -  Who's afraid of Jimmy Carter?
 05/21 -  Ignoring history, Gingrich declares war on 'secularism'
 05/21 -  U.S. Coast Guard latest victim of privatization
 05/21 -  Who gets stung by Internet radio royalties?
 05/21 -  Florida, everyone's bad example?
 05/21 -  Edwards blazes trail on the Internet
 05/21 -  Sun shines on clean energy
 05/20 -  Iraq: Why US withdrawal might lead to improvement
 05/20 -  Efforts to stop 'voter fraud' may have blocked legal voting
 05/20 -  It's time to graduate from the electoral college
 05/20 -  As a member, Hillary Clinton pushed Wal-Mart's board
 05/20 -  Solar flashlight's big impact in Africa
 05/20 -  Specter predicts Gonzales will resign before no-confidence vote
 05/19 -  Hang in there America!
 05/19 -  Bush officials move to weaken whistleblower protections
 05/19 -  CNN urged to retract false reporting by Lou Dobbs
 05/19 -  Billboard owners suspected in illegal tree cutting
 05/19 -  Immigration bill would have big impact in NC
 05/18 -  Postal rate hike will hurt small magazines
 05/18 -  The Right's parallel universe
 05/18 -  Jerry Falwell's deal with the devil
 05/18 -  Halliburton seeking greener pastures
 05/18 -  Running out the clock on clean air
 05/18 -  NAFTA Superhighway: Urban myth or secret plan?
 05/18 -  'Eco-terrorism' case stirs debate in US
 05/18 -  John Edwards: 'A Deeper Purpose'
 05/18 -  Appalachian Harvest farmers' co-op destroyed by fire
 05/17 -  Al Gore: Networked Democracy versus The Assault on Reason
 05/17 -  GOP senator predicts Gonzales will resign
 05/17 -  Labor unions, conservation groups team up to shape US farm policy
 05/17 -  Lawmakers experience life on food stamps
 05/16 -  Bush domestic spying program deemed illegal by Justice Dept.
 05/16 -  High drama . . . and high crimes in Washington?
 05/16 -  NC attorney general says MySpace protects predators
 05/16 -  Corporate concern over climate change grows
 05/16 -  What happens in Vegas . . .
 05/15 -  Why baby-boomers should want immigrants to do well
 05/15 -  In NC, cops write tickets and speeders cut deals
 05/14 -  'Honk for Peace' case tests limits on free speech
 05/14 -  Bowen to give media reform talk May 24
 05/14 -  Media consolidation threat grows as Murdoch eyes WSJ
 05/14 -  Mayors think green at global summit
 05/14 -  Treasury Department investigating Michael Moore trip to Cuba
 05/14 -  US options in Iraq narrow, from unpleasant to unthinkable
 05/14 -  Raleigh's historic chance to create a "Central Park'
 05/14 -  NC moves to ditch Electoral College
 05/14 -  The progressive case for annexation
 05/13 -  College class learns to question the news
 05/12 -  How Democrats should talk
 05/12 -  Colleagues cite partisan focus by Justice official
 05/12 -  A retired general says Bush doesn't listen
 05/12 -  Religious denominations aid Smithfield workers
 05/12 -  Iraqi lawmakers back bill on US withdrawal
 05/12 -  Longing for the devil they know
 05/12 -  Edwards unveils 'College for Everyone' plan
 05/12 -  Postal rate increase favors Big Media over indy media
 05/11 -  Senate nears immigration overhaul
 05/11 -  White House sought probes of voter-fraud before '06 elections
 05/11 -  Bush stalling while Americans die
 05/11 -  NC House passes $20.3 billion budget
 05/09 -  'No Gun Left Behind': Gun lobby aims at schools, colleges
 05/09 -  Rupert Murdoch goes green?
 05/09 -  Appalachian activists turn to UN to stop mountaintop removal
 05/09 -  Blueprint for greenhouse gases?
 05/09 -  Concern grows over a politicized Justice Department
 05/09 -  Pope visits waning Latin American flock
 05/08 -  Global warming crisis requires focus on deforestation
 05/08 -  Study: Child abuse linked to troop deployment
 05/08 -  Drug lobby muscles Senate on imported medicines
 05/08 -  North Carolina: First in tobacco, last in health
 05/08 -  Judge should avoid partisanship in sentencing Jim Black
 05/08 -  Charges dropped against NC anti-war protesters
 05/07 -  The anti-tax backlash
 05/07 -  When class war goes local
 05/07 -  Student loan whistle-blower vindicated
 05/07 -  Senate panel to question Justice official on voting suppression
 05/07 -  Businesses try to make money and save the world
 05/06 -  Rove helped deputy AG prepare for Gonzales testimony
 05/06 -  Property rights trump health in NC
 05/06 -  Alternate I-26 plan would boost local economy
 05/06 -  Support growing for alternate I-26 plan
 05/05 -  With new clout, antiwar groups push Democrats
 05/05 -  The real Iraq-Vietnam connection
 05/05 -  Slowly, slowly the ship of state turns realist
 05/05 -  FDA plan to close field labs draws fire
 05/05 -  Changes proposed in migrant education funding
 05/04 -  Clinton joins call to revoke war authorization
 05/04 -  Fabricating inspiration in a time of war
 05/04 -  White House seeks expanded domestic spying powers
 05/03 -  Global markets, corporations decoupling from US economy
 05/03 -  Edwards challenges GOP's 'war on terror'
 05/03 -  Bush's management style allows incompetence, but not massage
 05/03 -  Tenet's share of the shame
 05/03 -  Time for trash talk in Raleigh?
 05/03 -  NC kids may get 5 more free shots
 05/03 -  Neighborhood activists to convene Saturday
 05/02 -  Bill would expand solar panel rights in NC
 05/02 -  WNC vigils push for immigration reform
 05/01 -  Coming to US cities: the car-free zone
 05/01 -  The gambling scam on America's poor
 05/01 -  Italy makes concrete step toward cleaner air
 05/01 -  BYU students teach their elders a thing or two
 05/01 -  Price tag for Iraq War to top $500 billion
 05/01 -  Immigration not a state or local issue, says church leader