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MAIN News Archives for December 2007

 12/31 -  What has America become?
 12/31 -  Military newspaper challenges the Pentagon
 12/31 -  After a son's death, a shared mission in politics
 12/31 -  With democracy at-risk, where are America's heroes?
 12/31 -  Edwards could upend conventional wisdom
 12/30 -  Kucinich runs on idealism
 12/30 -  Public financing of NC judicial races under attack
 12/30 -  Huckabee explains anti-gay stance
 12/30 -  Neo-cons, corporate elites alarmed by evangelical rebellion
 12/30 -  Poll: Edwards pulls even with Clinton, Obama in Iowa
 12/29 -  NY Times rewards neo-con Bill Kristol with weekly column
 12/29 -  Vermont town seeks arrest of Bush, Cheney
 12/29 -  Growth of local power is bright spot in seven bleak years of Bush
 12/29 -  The hangover that lasts
 12/29 -  The war against the planet
 12/29 -  'Read all about it!' Newspapers face the unknown
 12/28 -  De Palma film, "Redacted,' reveals Iraq War's heart of darkness
 12/28 -  Fish farms pushing wild salmon to extinction
 12/28 -  The price of coal: 2,000 miles of mountain streams degraded or destroyed
 12/28 -  Alleged gang-rape reveals Cheney's sense of justice
 12/27 -  J-school deans to FCC: Use license-renewal to boost local news
 12/27 -  Military industry growing in North Carolina
 12/27 -  The Edwards surge in Iowa
 12/27 -  Calls for Cheney's impeachment mount
 12/27 -  Cheney takes VP's office down the rabbit hole
 12/27 -  Bush, California tangle over regulating auto emissions
 12/27 -  WNC donors prefer Democrats in the White House
 12/27 -  Massive Cataloochee resort is 'rolling," says spokesman
 12/27 -  Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide attack
 12/23 -  Wally Bowen on the future of the Internet
 12/23 -  States to sue EPA over auto exhaust
 12/23 -  Edwards touts electability
 12/23 -  NC air-quality official proposes changes at WNC coal-fired plant
 12/23 -  FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover, planned mass jailing of US citizens in 1950
 12/22 -  Bush happy to govern by veto
 12/22 -  Two candidates, two fortunes, two views of wealth
 12/22 -  An alternative to Bush's short rope for drowning homeowners
 12/22 -  Edwards vows to take on big insurance companies
 12/22 -  Study: C-SPAN favors conservative think-tanks
 12/22 -  9/11 Commission finds CIA withheld tapes, impeded probe
 12/21 -  ACLU lawsuit may be key to CIA tape scandal
 12/21 -  Naomi Klein: The 'shock doctrine' in action in New Orleans
 12/21 -  Iowa caucus rules may benefit Edwards
 12/21 -  Health insurer who denied coverage to be charged with teen's murder
 12/21 -  Greenspan's way, blindly into the bubble
 12/21 -  Conservative ideologues paved the way for subprime meltdown
 12/21 -  Corn-based caution
 12/21 -  USA Today squeezes Edwards out of race
 12/21 -  Poll: Edwards, Huckabee popular in WNC
 12/21 -  Is Huckabee hiding his full Gospel?
 12/21 -  Edwards calls for rural empowerment
 12/20 -  Source says DOJ slowed probe into election phone-jamming by GOP
 12/20 -  It's not over, over there
 12/20 -  After EPA rejects California, emissions court battle looms
 12/20 -  As judge orders CIA tape probe, Mukasey faces first test
 12/20 -  When anti-immigrant is anti-business
 12/20 -  Rural America has stake in public airwaves battle
 12/19 -  Surprise! Big Media shun anti-establishment candidates
 12/19 -  NC home foreclosures up 143 percent
 12/19 -  DOJ shuns hearing on Halliburton/KBR rape cases
 12/19 -  Free wireless Internet growing in WNC
 12/19 -  New state mental hospital called an 'outrage'
 12/19 -  GOP sets new record for filibusters
 12/19 -  Paul Allen joins public airwaves sell-off
 12/19 -  Who's watching Big Brother?
 12/18 -  FCC blasted for holiday gift to Big Media
 12/18 -  In 3-2 party-line vote, FCC lifts cross-ownership ban
 12/18 -  Bush's torture policy is a cancer threatening our own troops
 12/18 -  High-tech brings rural towns back to life
 12/18 -  Battle over media ownership rules is just beginning
 12/18 -  Can one man save the vanishing hemlocks?
 12/18 -  Nuke industry could reap $25 billion in taxpayer guarantees
 12/18 -  Gift ideas for your favorite 'locavore'
 12/18 -  Small towns, big challenges
 12/18 -  Senate passes bill to strengthen Freedom of Information Act
 12/18 -  FCC chief alters media ownership proposal for Tuesday vote
 12/17 -  Dodd filibuster threat wins; spying bill postponed to '08
 12/17 -  Judge: White House visitor logs are public documents
 12/17 -  Congress puts taxpayers on the hook for high-risk nuclear plants
 12/17 -  Dodd vows filibuster of telecom immunity bill
 12/17 -  The FCC's flawed media plan
 12/17 -  Growth in domestic spying spurs push for telecom immunity
 12/17 -  Paul Krugman on Obama's 'big table' fantasy
 12/17 -  Ron Paul nets $6 million in 24 hours
 12/17 -  CBO data reveal historic jump in income inequality
 12/17 -  Mukasey shows his contempt for Congress in CIA tape probe
 12/17 -  The story Valerie Plame cannot tell
 12/17 -  Making state government more efficient?
 12/16 -  GOP leader calls for hearings on CIA tapes
 12/16 -  Bush-era historians will wonder if Congress existed
 12/16 -  Moyers interviews Keith Olbermann
 12/16 -  Speaking truth to Latinos isn't pandering
 12/16 -  The AMT: What the battle is all about
 12/15 -  Interview with Robert Kuttner on 'The Squandering of America'
 12/15 -  John Edwards: No more political 'Ken doll'
 12/15 -  Reversal by US yields global warming plan
 12/15 -  Reid decries 'obstruction on steroids'
 12/15 -  Johnston County hunts for books to ban
 12/15 -  The GOP's religious tangle
 12/14 -  Progress Energy blasted for fighting renewable energy standards
 12/14 -  New Jersey moves to end death penalty
 12/14 -  Why we need media diversity
 12/14 -  Report says staff beat patient at NC mental hospital
 12/14 -  Our treatment of veterans is a disgrace
 12/14 -  Judge says NC should pay more than $700 million for school technology
 12/13 -  Junk media is killing us
 12/13 -  How the NIE undermines Iran's president
 12/13 -  Lawmakers urge FCC action on 'white spaces' spectrum
 12/13 -  A worrisome forecast for the world's crops
 12/13 -  Senate panel approves contempt resolutions against Rove, Bolten
 12/13 -  Ex-Sheriff Bobby Medford indicted, arrested for extortion
 12/13 -  Educating North Carolina
 12/13 -  The judicial coup that changed history
 12/13 -  House AMT solution targets wealthy tax-dodgers
 12/13 -  Edwards breathes new life into American populism
 12/12 -  FCC Commissioner Michael Copps versus Big Media
 12/12 -  As Clinton and Obama face off, Edwards turns to voters
 12/12 -  Only one thing unites Iraq -- hatred of US
 12/12 -  Murdoch moving fast to remake WS Journal
 12/12 -  Jimmy Carter: Farm Bill's welfare for the wealthy begs for reform
 12/12 -  Canary Coalition aims for the airwaves
 12/12 -  GOP using shady numbers to enflame NC immigration debate
 12/12 -  A fire extinguisher for global warming?
 12/12 -  Poll-obsessed media focus on strategy over substance
 12/12 -  Court orders Bush administration to preserve possible torture evidence
 12/12 -  Duke moves to build upstate SC nuclear plant
 12/11 -  Al Gore's Nobel Prize acceptance speech
 12/11 -  Realtors go 'green' to meet consumer demand
 12/11 -  WNC company turns to sun for power
 12/11 -  Chain store-friendly developer buys downtown Asheville buildings
 12/11 -  Congress to tackle growing hunger problem in US
 12/11 -  Edwards targets independents in NH
 12/10 -  Huckabee: Wives should 'graciously submit' to husbands
 12/10 -  Victim accuses US, Halliburton of gang-rape coverup
 12/10 -  The hidden human costs of war in Iraq
 12/10 -  High court reduces disparity in crack and cocaine sentencing
 12/10 -  Subprime morality
 12/10 -  Libby drops appeal, stage set for full pardon
 12/10 -  Bill McKibben: 10 years after Kyoto
 12/10 -  Why the Democrats could lose
 12/10 -  Fear, the engine of pork-barrel defense spending
 12/09 -  NC utilities help stall energy bill in US Senate
 12/09 -  Are big-spending clergy abusing US tax code?
 12/09 -  Local police split over immigration enforcement
 12/09 -  The long history of scapegoating immigrants
 12/09 -  Edwards straddles 'Two Americas'
 12/09 -  Taylor rules out run for 11th district seat
 12/08 -  Huckabee called for isolating AIDS patients in 1992
 12/08 -  'Missing' evidence is familiar Bush pattern
 12/08 -  What ever happened to moderate Republicans?
 12/08 -  Here come the thought police
 12/08 -  Is the 'Golden Compass' really anti-Christian?
 12/08 -  Pathology of the private-benefit corporation
 12/08 -  Blackwater on fast-track; Romney link revealed
 12/08 -  Is Romney believable?
 12/08 -  UNC resists anti-immigrant fever
 12/08 -  Asheville considers height, size limits on buildings
 12/08 -  BB&T denies coverup tied to failed WNC development
 12/08 -  Calls mount for probe of tape destruction
 12/07 -  Senate GOP blocks landmark energy bill
 12/06 -  Most Americans losing ground in global economy
 12/06 -  Mitt Romney's case for pastor-in-chief
 12/06 -  CIA destroyed tapes of detainee interrogations
 12/06 -  The dubious Mr. Dobbs
 12/06 -  Domestic Spying, Inc.
 12/06 -  Edwards goes after 'corporate Democrats'
 12/05 -  Media ownership fight moves to Congress
 12/05 -  Peace group barred from Florida schools
 12/05 -  The Court: 'How so few have changed so much'
 12/05 -  Citizen journalists: Start your engines!
 12/05 -  It's time for a new Church Committee
 12/05 -  The invisible American worker
 12/05 -  Bush may veto new fuel efficiency rules
 12/05 -  Town hall forum on clean energy set for Dec. 13
 12/05 -  Skeptical Supreme Court ponders major Guantanamo case
 12/04 -  Lou Dobbs, live with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
 12/04 -  War costs could reach $3.5 trillion
 12/04 -  Germany takes dramatic step to curb greenhouse gases
 12/04 -  Will fact-based intelligence prevail?
 12/04 -  Senate panel moves to block FCC's Dec. 18 media ownership vote
 12/04 -  Donald Trump's golf course ultimatum
 12/04 -  700 MHz spectrum auction coming into focus
 12/04 -  Predatory lending bill could weaken NC law
 12/03 -  Cut the corporate welfare umbilical cord
 12/03 -  Why the telecoms shouldn't get immunity
 12/03 -  Does US tolerate anti-Muslim speech?
 12/03 -  TV networks, not issues, dominate debate coverage
 12/03 -  US intelligence: Iran apparently halted nuclear weapons drive in 2003
 12/03 -  Four Democrats vie for NC Lt. Governor post
 12/03 -  Remembering Henry Hyde, 'Mr. Cover-Up'
 12/03 -  FCC member sounds alarm on Dec. 18 media ownership vote
 12/02 -  Drought picture grimmer as La Nina gathers strength
 12/02 -  Duke Energy told to cut electricity rates
 12/02 -  Money, planning propelled gun case to Supreme Court
 12/02 -  Edwards to party insiders: Tear down that wall!
 12/02 -  No Child Left Behind renewal under broad attack
 12/02 -  Johnny can't pass history
 12/02 -  Fact-checking the candidates, a novel idea?
 12/02 -  Scholar says National Geographic got it wrong on Judas
 12/01 -  Suze Orman: Personal finance gets political
 12/01 -  Bloggers blast Big Media on campaign coverage
 12/01 -  In GOP debate rebroadcast, CNN cut 'don't ask, don't tell' question
 12/01 -  How America lost the war on drugs
 12/01 -  Study details how US could cut greenhouse gases by 28 percent