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MAIN News Archives for September 2007

 09/30 -  Is White House shifting rationale for attack on Iran?
 09/30 -  Christian conservatives threaten third-party effort
 09/30 -  Is Hillary Clinton the new old Al Gore?
 09/30 -  Deregulating our way to a depression?
 09/30 -  Too-close-to-call cases at Supreme Court
 09/29 -  Asheville featured in NY Times . . . again
 09/29 -  Report: FDA oversight of clinical trials weak, disorganized
 09/29 -  Get ready for the 'stab in the back' campaign
 09/29 -  Report finds conservative columnists dominate NC newspapers
 09/29 -  Consultant's review of DOT under wraps
 09/28 -  Supreme Court to review restrictive voter ID law
 09/28 -  Dole, Burr vote against expansion of children's health coverage
 09/28 -  Daniel Ellsberg: 'A coup has occurred'
 09/28 -  NARAL's case for net neutrality
 09/28 -  NC board rules that gray dye must be added to raw milk
 09/28 -  Blackwater guards killed 16 as US touted progress
 09/28 -  Edwards opts for public money
 09/27 -  Cheney to address secretive conservative group
 09/27 -  Can you hear us now? Verizon drops ban on NARAL text-message
 09/27 -  Could Democrats do more to end the war?
 09/27 -  We deserve the smartest decision possible for I-26
 09/27 -  Black household income at bottom of the chart in NC
 09/26 -  Iraq debate eclipsed by media frenzy over newspaper ad
 09/26 -  Bush's fiscal legacy: limiting future spending options
 09/26 -  Local prof sees US in 'slow drift to totalitarianism'
 09/26 -  Activists wary of Bush speech on human rights
 09/26 -  GOP elites snub religious conservatives
 09/26 -  State Dept. bars employees from responding to corruption probe
 09/25 -  Who controls the news? On the Web, you can.
 09/25 -  Sheriff Duncan, Chief Hogan to join Sept. 27 forum on dissent
 09/25 -  Iraq stress hits veterans of past wars
 09/25 -  White House worked to scuttle California's climate law
 09/25 -  Neo-cons spin visit by Iran's president in push for war
 09/25 -  Fabricated fears about hate-crime legislation
 09/25 -  Little Rock marks a civil rights victory
 09/25 -  Cities remind local police that immigration is a federal matter
 09/25 -  An army of military contractors exposes an accountability problem
 09/25 -  Prices for recyclables on the rise
 09/25 -  Thoughts from the former president's pool boy
 09/25 -  FCC fines cable giant for stealth 'news' segment
 09/25 -  Mental health patients, desperate and waiting for help
 09/25 -  Internet freedom must never be taken for granted
 09/24 -  Police chiefs blast gun show loophole
 09/24 -  Shuler calls for 'family-friendly' in-flight movies
 09/24 -  Podhoretz secretly urged Bush to bomb Iran
 09/24 -  The hidden crimes of mountaintop mining
 09/24 -  Invisible Latino patriots
 09/24 -  IRS ends probe of church over anti-war sermon
 09/24 -  Naomi Klein debates Alan Greenspan
 09/24 -  Baby Bells tighten their grip on the Internet
 09/24 -  The growing power of the Senate filibuster
 09/23 -  How the falling dollar affects Americans
 09/23 -  Winston-Salem GOP instruct local police to enforce immigration laws
 09/23 -  Right-wing sells Iraq War to 'values voters'
 09/23 -  Your phone company's secret lobbying campaign
 09/23 -  Health care is voters' top domestic concern
 09/23 -  Immigration issue fuels prejudice toward Latinos
 09/23 -  MySpace takes personal data-mining to the next level
 09/22 -  Will Democrats betray US workers . . . again?
 09/22 -  Edwards unveils education reform plan
 09/22 -  Washington's $8 billion shadow
 09/22 -  Why is Al-Jazeera TV banned by US cable and satellite networks?
 09/21 -  Bush pledges veto of expanded health coverage for children
 09/21 -  FCC chief signals that Big Media may get bigger
 09/21 -  Bush fulfills H.L. Mencken's prophecy
 09/21 -  Duke Energy's power play
 09/21 -  Democrats vow to keep pushing to end Iraq War
 09/20 -  Jim Crow in Jena
 09/20 -  Will NC's land transfer tax help pay for growth?
 09/20 -  Krugman: Political reporting has become theater criticism
 09/20 -  Oil and betrayal in Iraq
 09/20 -  Thousands descend on Jena, La. to protest racial injustice
 09/20 -  The other Iraq surge
 09/20 -  Progress Energy prepares for new nuclear reactors
 09/20 -  Study finds more alcohol radio ads reaching minors
 09/20 -  Haywood to create farmland protection plan
 09/20 -  Study: When Big Media get bigger, children lose
 09/19 -  John Edwards: working-class values and a closely held faith
 09/19 -  Senate Republicans block troop relief bill
 09/19 -  More than 3,800 acres of Upper Green River preserved
 09/19 -  Bill McKibben: Can anyone stop global warming?
 09/19 -  For Duke coal plant, the price of new jobs is more pollution
 09/19 -  Swain voter fraud investigation sent to feds
 09/19 -  Senate to vote on limiting troop deployments
 09/19 -  Be concerned about Rupert Murdoch
 09/19 -  Florida student tasered at Kerry forum
 09/19 -  Buncombe to require microchips for loose pets
 09/19 -  We can't allow war without end
 09/19 -  Obama proposes tax-code overhaul
 09/19 -  Does the establishment fear John Edwards?
 09/18 -  The lies of Alan Greenspan
 09/18 -  Drift into war with Iran 'out of control,' says UN
 09/18 -  Local Red Cross employee charged with embezzling $165,000
 09/18 -  Can the puppet talk back?
 09/18 -  Civilizing the Web's ethical wildness?
 09/18 -  Polls: Bush, Petraeus didn't change public's views on Iraq
 09/18 -  Big Media hones its campaign '08 narratives
 09/18 -  The United States of AT&T
 09/18 -  ACLU comes to Craig's defense
 09/18 -  US home foreclosures soar in August
 09/17 -  Judiciary Committee may tie AG confirmation to stalled investigations
 09/17 -  Amazon farmers grow grain and save the forest
 09/17 -  Amid sea of channels and YouTube, public access TV remains vital
 09/17 -  War-injured Iraqi child to visit Asheville
 09/17 -  Can NC hold on to its good teachers?
 09/17 -  Populist mood in US growing
 09/17 -  Bush setting America up for war with Iran
 09/17 -  Congress quietly returns to immigration reform
 09/17 -  US intelligence intercepts Al Qaeda letter on Iraq
 09/17 -  Congress to consider back-up paper ballots for voting machines
 09/16 -  Medicare audit program could cost taxpayers
 09/16 -  More than 190 arrested at anti-war rally
 09/16 -  Bush to nominate conservative judge as attorney general
 09/16 -  Court ruling blocks erosion of civil liberties
 09/16 -  Walter Jones' anti-war stance risks backlash in eastern NC
 09/15 -  The myth of the balanced court
 09/15 -  How should we withdraw from Iraq?
 09/15 -  The gutting of American democracy
 09/15 -  Democrats propose new strategy to speed Iraq withdrawal
 09/15 -  Alan Greenspan: GOP "swapped principle for power"
 09/15 -  Most of NC declared disaster area due to drought
 09/14 -  States lead in cutting autos' CO2 emissions
 09/14 -  Rumsfeld deploys to right-wing thinktank
 09/14 -  Jane Smiley on the GOP's embrace of 'shock capitalism'
 09/14 -  Breakthrough on mystery of vanishing bees?
 09/14 -  Free Press questions Justice Department's late hit against 'net neutrality'
 09/14 -  The media's double standard on Israel and Palestine
 09/14 -  America's 'McMansion' problem
 09/14 -  Why we're 'staying the course'? Bush can't admit he was wrong
 09/14 -  Iraq's real meaning: the war against ourselves
 09/13 -  Study finds conservative voices dominate US editorial pages
 09/13 -  Privacy and the cable/telco bundle
 09/13 -  Media misrepresent Congress' options on Iraq War
 09/13 -  Study predicts doubling of 'bad air' days in Asheville by 2050
 09/13 -  The general lied
 09/13 -  Two of seven soldiers who wrote Times op-ed die in Iraq
 09/13 -  Corporate welfare alive and well in NC
 09/13 -  Why capitalism needs terrorism
 09/13 -  Is a bipartisan war policy possible?
 09/13 -  Lawmakers push US to adopt energy efficient lightbulbs
 09/12 -  "Swear him in' plea gets retired CIA officer booted from Petraeus hearing
 09/12 -  The dirty secret of campus credit cards
 09/12 -  After two days, still no answer to 'how this ends'
 09/12 -  Give the earth a Sabbath day
 09/12 -  GOP hopes for Senate dwindle in '08
 09/12 -  NC foresakes golf, steers money to tiremaker
 09/12 -  Mumpower to challenge Shuler for 11th district seat
 09/11 -  Broadcast lobbyists move to quash affordable Internet access
 09/11 -  Shuler issues statement on Petraeus report
 09/11 -  The problem of a 'war' strategy
 09/11 -  Coastal communities fight to stay above water
 09/11 -  Citizen Gore
 09/11 -  Failures of the American airwaves
 09/11 -  Key Republican questions Iraq strategy
 09/11 -  NC debates millions in incentives to Goodyear
 09/10 -  Can NC make it easier for citizens to access public records?
 09/10 -  Wall Street is not Main Street
 09/10 -  House to probe Justice prosecution of Democratic governor
 09/10 -  Intelligence officials contradict White House on bin Laden
 09/10 -  What Crocker and Petraeus didn't say
 09/10 -  A Supreme Court of ideology over principle
 09/10 -  Democrats on Hill aim to aid middle class
 09/10 -  Let us become the change our world so badly needs
 09/10 -  Brains of liberals, conservatives may work differently, study finds
 09/10 -  Attorney gave $2.3 million for conservative advocacy in NC
 09/09 -  Confessions of a credit-card pusher
 09/09 -  Study finds network TV news bias against the poor
 09/09 -  Citizens document stormwater damage in Asheville
 09/09 -  Edwards proposes global anti-terrorism body
 09/09 -  Patchwork of rules affects immigrants
 09/09 -  For neocons, the war in the Middle East is just getting started
 09/07 -  Lies, damn lies, and statistics
 09/07 -  NC judge reprimanded for jailing debtors
 09/07 -  Justice Dept. supports 'Corporate Internet'
 09/06 -  Shoring up the middle class
 09/06 -  Endangered Species Act -- new tool to fight global warming?
 09/06 -  Let the poor save for their future
 09/06 -  Parts of Patriot Act ruled unconstitutional
 09/06 -  White House sued again over email
 09/06 -  US taxpayers dropping $3 billion a week on Iraq
 09/06 -  Why Wall Street loves disasters
 09/06 -  Edwards calls on Congress to stand up to Bush on Iraq
 09/06 -  Blue Cross helped write NC law expanding health coverage
 09/05 -  Blue Ridge Paper changes name, moves headquarters to Memphis
 09/05 -  Judge forces FBI to divulge details of surveillance tools
 09/05 -  "I came to America in search of a dream"
 09/05 -  No more gas guzzlers for Congress?
 09/05 -  Journalists rethink love-hate relationship with Al Gore
 09/05 -  Nuclear warheads mistakenly flown over US by B-52
 09/05 -  Fifty years later, DOJ's Civil Rights Division called a 'disaster'
 09/05 -  A-B Tech gets first woman president
 09/05 -  Locally-grown food making huge gains in WNC
 09/04 -  Senate GOP leaders note differences in scandals
 09/04 -  As labor unions fade, remembering the struggle for workers' rights
 09/04 -  Re-writing the Iraq script -- myth trumps reality
 09/04 -  Are CEOs worth that much more?
 09/04 -  Letters reveal Bush told of plan to dismantle Iraqi army
 09/04 -  Hard lesson from a strange place
 09/04 -  Aging inmates strain NC prisons
 09/03 -  Stealing the 2008 vote
 09/03 -  Report: Pentagon planning massive air-strikes on Iran
 09/03 -  Immigrants' labors lost
 09/03 -  Human Genome Project beginning to bear fruit
 09/03 -  Easley signs stricter landfill regulations
 09/03 -  Global warming: who pays and when?
 09/02 -  Disaster Capitalism: How conservatives, contractors and developers cash in on Katrina
 09/02 -  Construction industry overstates the cost of green-building
 09/02 -  The worms turn in NC legislature
 09/02 -  America's toe-tapping menace
 09/02 -  Americans anxious for change as election approaches
 09/02 -  Secret lives of the plutocracy
 09/01 -  The Great Iraq Swindle
 09/01 -  Data-sifters help crooked mortgage lenders find prey
 09/01 -  Connecting the dinner plate to climate change