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MAIN News Archives for January 2008

 01/31 -  US death toll in Iraq on the rise
 01/31 -  Why one Edwards voter is now backing Obama
 01/31 -  Clinton, Obama go one-on-one
 01/30 -  Vietnam vets help returning GIs deal with shocks of war
 01/30 -  Attorney general hints that Bush approved torture
 01/30 -  Cable company apologizes for moving PEG channels
 01/30 -  Lawsuit over NC third parties headed to trial
 01/30 -  Edwards exits presidential race
 01/29 -  Should journalism escape the bonds of neutrality?
 01/29 -  Blog against the machine?
 01/29 -  McCain wins Florida; GOP sources say Giuliani will drop out
 01/29 -  How the mountains of Appalachia disappear
 01/29 -  Spurred by Carter, some Baptists meet to build bigger tent
 01/29 -  Duke's coal-fired plant at Cliffside approved
 01/29 -  NY Times falls for White House spin on the economy
 01/29 -  Dems urge Bush to get to work
 01/29 -  Will coal light fire under NC governor's race?
 01/28 -  Seneca, SC to pay into SuperFund settlement in NC
 01/28 -  Bush secret order expands NSA monitoring of the Internet
 01/28 -  Patent 'reform' would protect Microsoft, other tech giants
 01/28 -  Phone giants' rising rates questioned
 01/28 -  Will the House stop illegal wiretaps?
 01/28 -  Edwards can pull a McCain, says staff
 01/27 -  Probe finds 935 false claims by US on road to Iraq War
 01/27 -  Obama's idealism vs. partisan politics
 01/27 -  Wall Street, where failure is richly rewarded
 01/27 -  Sen. Kennedy to endorse Obama
 01/27 -  Nationwide 'teach-in' to address climate change
 01/27 -  Making Asheville a 'Wi-Fi City'
 01/26 -  Obama wins South Carolina
 01/26 -  Alternative to corn-based ethanol ready for prime-time
 01/26 -  Failed Ideology -- The Economic State of the Union, 2008
 01/26 -  'Elephant stampede' -- Why the GOP is losing business support
 01/25 -  Scientists urge speedy emission cuts
 01/25 -  Crossroads for professional journalists
 01/25 -  The growing issue of elder abuse in WNC
 01/25 -  Bogus claims in Boca
 01/25 -  The lessons of '94
 01/25 -  Shuler stumps for Edwards in SC
 01/25 -  Leading Democrats miss the boat on health care
 01/25 -  Questions arise over FCC spectrum auction
 01/25 -  Immigration officials detaining, deporting US citizens
 01/24 -  NC judge releases Blackwater protesters after quiet debate
 01/24 -  Fear, illegality, and telecom immunity
 01/24 -  Zogby poll shows Edwards moving past Clinton in SC
 01/24 -  Telcos win first round in Senate on wiretap immunity
 01/24 -  Whom will white male Democrats vote for in SC?
 01/24 -  "Dear Rich People . . ."
 01/24 -  Net Neutrality: Return us to a productive landscape
 01/23 -  How the $2 trillion Iraq War cost could have been spent
 01/23 -  Outsourcing journalism?
 01/23 -  NC Arboretum looks to grow trees -- and jobs
 01/23 -  Chavez attempts to bypass US corporate media
 01/23 -  Does Clinton-Obama squabble give Edwards an opening?
 01/23 -  MAIN launches Wi-Fi 'mesh' in Asheville
 01/22 -  Barbara Ehrenreich: Desperately seeking stimulus
 01/22 -  A smart fix for the subprime mess?
 01/22 -  Alexander Hamilton's legacy: 'open the purses of the people'
 01/22 -  Debunking the Reagan myth
 01/22 -  Fred Thompson drops presidential bid
 01/21 -  Wind, solar tax credits set to expire
 01/21 -  Clinton, Obama bicker in SC debate; Edwards takes the high road
 01/21 -  Media mindlessness: Campaign coverage 2008
 01/21 -  Ex-Pentagon neo-con steers $30 million contract to his firm
 01/21 -  Edwards' backers tout his appeal to white Southerners
 01/21 -  State tries to keep WNC water line secret
 01/21 -  Cliffside coal plant could endanger our health
 01/20 -  MLK, Jr: 'Let justice roll'
 01/20 -  Remembering Dr. King's spiritual legacy
 01/20 -  Stimulus rebates should include payroll taxpayers
 01/20 -  Tough love for Big Business?
 01/20 -  Rethinking the immigration problem
 01/20 -  Who will govern North Carolina?
 01/19 -  Are Democrats divided over economic stimulus?
 01/19 -  Krugman: Don't cry for me America
 01/19 -  Candlelight vigil to oppose nuke, coal-fired plants
 01/18 -  Dirty tricks erupt in GOP race for South Carolina
 01/18 -  A different kind of recession
 01/18 -  Edwards to media: There are three candidates, not two
 01/18 -  Top conservative talkers rap McCain and Huckabee
 01/18 -  Romney speaks coded language to evangelicals
 01/18 -  Waxman asks White House attorney to testify on missing e-mails
 01/18 -  A way out of the subprime funk
 01/18 -  New inflation data add to middle-class squeeze
 01/18 -  Edwards, O'Reilly clash over homeless vets
 01/17 -  The battle of bottled versus tap water
 01/17 -  Rep. Wexler: Cheney impeachment 'far stronger than Watergate'
 01/17 -  The secret history of the Magna Carta
 01/17 -  Was NBC told to eliminate Kucinich from Nevada debate?
 01/17 -  Should AT&T police the Internet?
 01/17 -  When rich have a free lunch, you pick up the tab
 01/17 -  Ron Paul: 'Dr. Nobody' beats Fred and Rudy, again
 01/17 -  Citizen-Times endorses alternative I-26 design
 01/17 -  Hair-trigger media fall for Persian Gulf propaganda
 01/17 -  Privatized mental health care is failing NC
 01/17 -  Will anyone pay for the Iraq War?
 01/17 -  Missing White House tapes -- sound familiar?
 01/17 -  Ad campaign opposes new coal, nuclear plants in NC
 01/17 -  Asheville film makes Sundance Festival
 01/16 -  Americans are ready for corporate accountability
 01/16 -  Why a faltering economy may not help Democrats
 01/16 -  Snow expected by 10 p.m. tonight
 01/16 -  Huckabee preaches in Spartanburg church
 01/16 -  Asheville council approves I-26 plan
 01/16 -  Judge releases Medford under electronic surveillance
 01/16 -  Kucinich cites GE-NBC link in debate exclusion
 01/15 -  ACLU files suit on behalf of Bush protesters
 01/15 -  Democrats debate in Nevada
 01/15 -  Judge blocks Comcast's move of public access channel
 01/15 -  The poor among us
 01/14 -  Nuclear power resurgence targets US South
 01/14 -  The end of the road for George W. Bush
 01/14 -  Gaining in Nevada, Edwards 'still in the hunt'
 01/14 -  Red Cross-WNC issues 'low blood' alert
 01/14 -  Obama inspires people, but is he just riding the wave?
 01/14 -  Evangelicals are top prize for GOP in SC
 01/13 -  Economic elites buy politicians and game the system
 01/13 -  GOP's tent is getting smaller
 01/12 -  For many Americans, the recession is old news
 01/12 -  FBI whistleblower: Top US officials sold nuclear secrets
 01/12 -  Global capitalism's threat to democracy
 01/12 -  Edwards says he can come from behind in SC
 01/11 -  Tough questions for Democratic candidates
 01/11 -  The real winner in New Hampshire? Obedwards
 01/11 -  Broadcasters' big payday
 01/11 -  Blarney from Myrtle Beach
 01/11 -  'Action Alert' issued by I-26 Connector group
 01/11 -  Do calls for 'change' include the Iraq War?
 01/11 -  Big Media humbled in New Hampshire
 01/11 -  Telecom pulls plug on FBI wiretaps over unpaid bills
 01/10 -  GOP candidates take liberties with taxes
 01/10 -  An interview with Elizabeth Edwards
 01/10 -  Dam removal fight: Franklin, Jackson County vs. NC, US and Duke Energy
 01/10 -  New survey of Iraqi death toll: 151,000
 01/10 -  Why razor blades and printer ink are so expensive
 01/10 -  Richardson dropping presidential bid
 01/10 -  Down the rabbit hole: When Fox News won't take 'no' for an answer
 01/09 -  AT&T considers filtering Internet content
 01/09 -  The final days of Cataloochee's old-growth hemlocks
 01/09 -  Indiana voter ID law is harmful and worthless
 01/09 -  Will Supreme Court make partisan ruling in voter ID case?
 01/09 -  Edwards: It's a three-way race with 48 states to go
 01/08 -  McCain, Clinton win in New Hampshire
 01/08 -  Media to voters: the primaries are over
 01/08 -  Gloria Steinem: 'Women are never front-runners'
 01/08 -  Ralph Nader's 'Obama Fable'
 01/08 -  Ten questions in search of answers in New Hampshire
 01/08 -  A balance between free speech and fear?
 01/08 -  Supreme Court to decide if voter ID law is constitutional
 01/07 -  America's upper classes have gone AWOL
 01/07 -  The undocumented crisis
 01/07 -  Sanitizing 'Charlie Wilson's War'
 01/07 -  Wikipedia founder launches open-source search engine
 01/07 -  McGovern: Saving US democracy requires impeachment
 01/07 -  Swift Boat donors back McCain, Romney, Giuliani
 01/07 -  Congress ponders changes in bankruptcy law
 01/06 -  Edwards doubts 'conscience' of Clinton campaign
 01/06 -  The Dems' missing issue: the economy
 01/06 -  Terrorism and the struggle between faith and reason
 01/06 -  Washington's 'best and worst' for civil liberties in '07
 01/06 -  Poll: Edwards leads GOP candidates in Ohio
 01/06 -  New Hampshire GOP protests Fox News' exclusion of Ron Paul
 01/06 -  Who should pay the carbon bill?
 01/05 -  Debate: Edwards tags Clinton as 'status quo'
 01/05 -  Can we count on voting machines?
 01/05 -  Is the GOP 'sleep-walking into catastrophe'?
 01/05 -  Edwards says he's in the race for the 'long haul'
 01/05 -  Pakistan turmoil unmasks obedient US media
 01/05 -  Bill Moyers interviews Ron Paul
 01/04 -  Richardson to remain in race, Biden and Dodd drop out
 01/04 -  Can the Internet be saved in 2008?
 01/04 -  John Edwards and the Kucinich factor
 01/04 -  Verizon selling rural phone network to NC-based firm
 01/03 -  Obama, Huckabee win in Iowa, Edwards takes second
 01/03 -  Whatever happened to moderate Republicans?
 01/03 -  Dems keep Congress in session to block recess appointments
 01/03 -  Criminal inquiry ordered into destruction of CIA tapes
 01/03 -  US calls for fewer nukes, but fails to lead
 01/02 -  Move to impeach Cheney gains steam in Congress
 01/02 -  Edwards: US is enabling Iraq government's 'bad behavior'
 01/02 -  How not to conduct a presidential poll
 01/02 -  Rapp proposes steep-slope safeguards
 01/02 -  Would Hillary give a free pass to George W. Bush?
 01/02 -  Ron Paul: Absolute faith in free markets and less government
 01/02 -  Ron Paul pressures Fox News
 01/01 -  Burning of CIA tapes is Watergate deja vu
 01/01 -  Nader calls Clinton a 'corporate Democrat,' throws support to Edwards
 01/01 -  How to rig an election