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MAIN News Archives for February 2008

 02/29 -  America's heart of darkness
 02/29 -  Folks drinking well-water vulnerable to contaminants
 02/28 -  The FCC, Comcast, and 'net neutrality'
 02/28 -  What the Times didn't tell us about McCain
 02/28 -  Hello? US health system is designed not to work
 02/28 -  NC mental health remedy: 'Close your eyes and privatize'
 02/28 -  NC leads in pushing Congress to limit campaign 'robocalls'
 02/28 -  With NC reform, serious mental health care fades
 02/28 -  Will US become world's nuclear waste dump?
 02/27 -  House to vote on outside ethics office for Congress
 02/27 -  Newspapers cut back on Washington coverage
 02/27 -  San Francisco weighs green-building law
 02/27 -  Comcast hired people to fill FCC hearing room, denying access to critics
 02/26 -  Corporate media push taxpayer bail-out for Wall Street
 02/26 -  Is Bush to blame for the economy?
 02/26 -  Iraq: The calm before the conflagration
 02/26 -  Nader's candidacy gets some cheers, but more groans
 02/26 -  Study finds shifting religious landscape in America
 02/26 -  Edwards joins Iraq/Recession Campaign
 02/26 -  DOT slammed for convoluted planning in WNC
 02/24 -  FCC slashes Fox TV indecency fines
 02/24 -  Obama and the role of political narrative
 02/24 -  NC may ban wasteful energy billing
 02/24 -  Broadcaster contradicts McCain on FCC intervention
 02/24 -  Mental health reform in NC wastes millions, fails mentally ill
 02/24 -  Is spectrum reform too complex for reporters?
 02/23 -  Conservatism at its worst: Bush's farmworker policies
 02/23 -  Study finds rap music triggers latent sexism
 02/23 -  NC pension law loophole favors fundraiser
 02/23 -  Black farms fade as a generation passes
 02/22 -  Pinned down in Iraq, US military see Taliban surge
 02/22 -  Satellite shootdown fuels fears of war in space
 02/22 -  Iraq, intelligence failures, and Kelly Clarkson
 02/22 -  Is Ralph Nader running again?
 02/22 -  Face-off in Africa: Christians versus Muslims
 02/21 -  The story behind the NY Times story on McCain
 02/21 -  Florida to teach evolution as 'theory'
 02/20 -  Asheville activist Hazel Fobes, 93
 02/20 -  Gitmo trials rigged
 02/20 -  Had enough gun violence yet?
 02/20 -  Why Castro remains a hero to many in Latin America
 02/19 -  Obama on a roll with decisive Wisconsin win
 02/19 -  Judge orders whistleblower website shut down
 02/19 -  How Republicans might sink Obama
 02/19 -  Progress Energy sees future in nuclear, not coal
 02/18 -  The dumbing of America
 02/18 -  Lethal forces threaten our cultural, political future
 02/18 -  Study shows that NC cable TV law is backfiring
 02/18 -  Social business can reform capitalism
 02/16 -  How does an error-prone journalist keep getting hired?
 02/15 -  McKibben: Local activism key to fighting climate change
 02/15 -  NC offers 'green business' grants
 02/15 -  House Democrats display backbone on FISA
 02/15 -  Justifying torture is harmful to democracy
 02/15 -  Edwards backers tilt toward Obama
 02/14 -  Americans save more energy, thanks to the Internet
 02/14 -  Can democratic discourse survive 'digital narcissism'?
 02/13 -  Nonprofit journalism on the rise
 02/13 -  NC to launch plug-in car research center
 02/12 -  The conservative revolt over McCain
 02/12 -  Obama, McCain sweep Potomac primaries
 02/12 -  GOP plus 18 Democrats pass telecom immunity in Senate
 02/12 -  May 6 primary in NC suddenly looms larger
 02/12 -  NC leaders debate 'green' future
 02/12 -  Sen. Dodd's historic floor speech against telecom immunity
 02/12 -  How risky are uninsured bank deposits?
 02/11 -  Wall St. Journal, NY Times clash over telecom immunity
 02/11 -  Immigrants panicking over fears of deportation
 02/11 -  Waterboarding for God and Country
 02/11 -  Army buried study faulting Iraq war planning
 02/11 -  Facebook for life?
 02/11 -  Obama could boost media reform movement
 02/10 -  With John Edwards gone, poverty disappears
 02/10 -  Will Congress dare to cut Pentagon pork?
 02/10 -  The Democrats' bizarre class war?
 02/10 -  A time to invest in children, rather than guns
 02/10 -  The Nation endorses Obama
 02/10 -  Clinton & Obama: Two different ideas of the presidency
 02/10 -  Statistician is key to justice in human rights cases
 02/10 -  NC-DOT board, an 'ATM machine for politicians'
 02/09 -  UK study: Organic really is better
 02/09 -  Bush's budget continues tilt to the top
 02/09 -  What would President McCain's foreign policy look like?
 02/09 -  Court ruling on mercury limits may slow Cliffside coal plant
 02/09 -  DOT engineer warned bosses of thin I-95 pavement
 02/07 -  US nuclear plant safety checks under fire
 02/07 -  Beware the grip of 'NC Free'
 02/07 -  Taking the word 'liberal' away from the GOP
 02/07 -  Obama or Clinton? Who can beat McCain?
 02/07 -  Conservative leader speaks out on McCain
 02/07 -  Romney drops out
 02/07 -  Future of corporate newspapers is dim
 02/07 -  Continuing the cult of secrecy at the White House
 02/07 -  The real 'class warfare'
 02/07 -  America's forgotten reformers
 02/07 -  NC primary suddenly has meaning for Democrats
 02/06 -  Going 'green' in WNC
 02/06 -  Karl Rove joins Fox News
 02/06 -  The Obama effect and Southern voters
 02/05 -  Super Tuesday results
 02/05 -  Triangle area's ambitious rail, bus plan back on track?
 02/04 -  The picture for public access TV gets blurry
 02/04 -  Proposed military spending is highest since World War II
 02/04 -  In election of change, TV pundits stuck in past
 02/04 -  Senate FISA deal: Taxpayers take the fall for illegal wiretaps
 02/04 -  Will Huckabee's run encourage evangelicals to vote for a Democrat?
 02/03 -  Stripmining Black History Month
 02/03 -  Uniting the GOP
 02/03 -  Debate questions corporate journalists refuse to ask
 02/03 -  Arsonists on Wall Street?
 02/03 -  With Edwards out, Southern white males founder
 02/03 -  American Conservative magazine endorses Ron Paul
 02/03 -  Will 'green collar' jobs save Rust Belt communities?
 02/03 -  Latinos may hold key to Super Tuesday for Democrats
 02/03 -  Poll shows Obama surge in California
 02/03 -  Paul Krugman on the Edwards effect
 02/02 -  North Carolina's uneasy dance with King Coal
 02/02 -  War spending dwarfs support for action on global warming
 02/02 -  Big Business ponders a low-carbon diet
 02/02 -  Senator pursues probe of ministries
 02/02 -  NC auto insurers seek 13 percent rate hike
 02/02 -  State secrets and civil liberties
 02/02 -  Closing income gap tops Obama's agenda for economic change
 02/01 -  Bush plans to leave a lot of unfinished business
 02/01 -  Moderate Republicans named to 'endangered species' list
 02/01 -  Democrats turn a blind eye to high crimes, again
 02/01 -  Towns fight move of cable access channels on TV dial
 02/01 -  It's time to re-define the 'issues' in Clinton-Obama race
 02/01 -  Colonizing rural areas, wealthy bring cash, culture and controversy
 02/01 -  Bush scraps ambitious clean-coal power plant
 02/01 -  Young Baptists are going green
 02/01 -  AT&T's public access TV technology called 'inferior'