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MAIN News Archives for March 2008

 03/31 -  'Let them use AOL' : Study links socio-economic status to Internet use
 03/31 -  Wall Street's war profiteering
 03/31 -  A White House of delusion
 03/31 -  Mortgage mess: Who gets help and who pays?
 03/31 -  Clinton, Obama offer big plans on global warming
 03/31 -  Ex-Alabama governor, out of prison, says Rove behind his conviction
 03/31 -  Perdue, Moore debate online at BlueNC, 7:30 p.m.
 03/30 -  Ex-Gitmo detainee says US tortured him
 03/30 -  Strange fruit of US anti-intellectualism
 03/29 -  For the press, no Iraq introspection
 03/29 -  'Five years of deception'
 03/29 -  Household chemicals wreaking havoc in fish
 03/29 -  'Three Trillion Dollar War' authors hold Q & A
 03/29 -  Wi-Fi still key to bridging Digital Divide
 03/29 -  New nuke plants to increase NC energy bills
 03/29 -  NY Times cites flawed study of Obama's voting record
 03/29 -  A year later, Bush ignores court ruling on warming
 03/28 -  NC primary grows in importance
 03/28 -  NPR: National Pentagon Radio?
 03/28 -  Send Bush up to talk to the volcano
 03/28 -  Net Neutrality's quiet crusader
 03/28 -  Asheville City Council endorses 'Wi-Fi City' proposal
 03/27 -  TV's political pundits fiddle while Rome burns
 03/27 -  Does new Air Force ad campaign favor the GOP?
 03/27 -  US cities dim lights to illuminate climate change
 03/27 -  In 'color-blind' nation, race-baiting goes subliminal
 03/27 -  PBS and 'Bush's War': Too timid, too little, too late
 03/27 -  Top Christian theologian defends Jeremiah Wright
 03/27 -  Cheney claims success in Iraq and eyes Iran
 03/27 -  Obama says Clinton is too connected
 03/27 -  Florida legislature makes formal apology for slavery
 03/27 -  Fighting violence with nonviolence
 03/26 -  Would God ever damn America?
 03/26 -  Cigarette maker helped fund lung cancer study
 03/26 -  Huge swath of Antartica ice collapses
 03/26 -  SC debates the economics of migrant workers
 03/26 -  Too many secrets in NC
 03/25 -  Telling Bush the truth is costly
 03/25 -  New poll shows Obama rebounding in NC
 03/25 -  Is democracy the natural state of mankind?
 03/25 -  Scorned trash-pickers become global environmental force
 03/25 -  Faces of the dead
 03/25 -  Make money by going green
 03/24 -  McCain's gaffes reflect Bush's Iran-al Qaeda myth
 03/24 -  Supreme Court dismisses 'Hillary: The Movie' case
 03/24 -  McCain's Easter miracle
 03/24 -  Obama-Clinton set to contest North Carolina
 03/24 -  Obama stumps Wednesday in Greensboro
 03/23 -  Recession is a given. Can we avoid depression?
 03/23 -  Ancient pines offer glimpse of NC's drought future
 03/23 -  Van Jones: Shining a new light
 03/23 -  FCC spectrum auction: 'The big get bigger'
 03/23 -  Gap in life-expectancy grows between US rich and poor
 03/23 -  Will blunt talk on race spur culture shift?
 03/22 -  Was Bear Stearns deal legal?
 03/22 -  Will Rush Limbaugh be charged with voter fraud?
 03/22 -  Voters' dilemma: Simple slogans for a complex world
 03/22 -  For-profit "Wi-Fi City" projects fold their tents
 03/21 -  A letter to the New York Times on fact-checking
 03/21 -  Lessig launches 'wikipedia' plan to reform Congress
 03/21 -  The gentlemen's bailout
 03/21 -  Newspapers move to drop or depoliticize editorial cartoonists
 03/21 -  Do political biases harm classroom teaching?
 03/21 -  Obama's passport records illegally searched
 03/21 -  Bush misspeaks on Iran's public stance on nuclear bomb
 03/20 -  The war that started with lies, continues with lies
 03/20 -  Obama speech opens up race dialogue
 03/20 -  Easley orders review of state e-mail policy
 03/20 -  Supreme Court bars use of race in picking juries
 03/20 -  FBI probing 17 large mortgage firms
 03/20 -  How local TV embraced fake news
 03/20 -  Can we talk race?
 03/20 -  Obama at Ft. Bragg: 'I will end this war.'
 03/19 -  So, why did we invade Iraq?
 03/19 -  Euphemism and American violence
 03/19 -  Why are 'Winter Soldiers' not news?
 03/19 -  Excerpt: The $3 Trillion War
 03/19 -  Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks
 03/19 -  Christians, Muslims move ahead on global talks
 03/19 -  Memo to candidates: Pick a feel-good pastor
 03/19 -  Transcript of Obama's speech: A More Perfect Union'
 03/17 -  Clean air's science at risk
 03/17 -  Ignored by corporate media, Winter Soldier voices find other outlets
 03/17 -  12 steps to restore checks and balances
 03/17 -  'State secrets' privilege fuels surveillance bill battle
 03/17 -  NY Times 'debate' on 5th anniversary of Iraq War excludes anti-war voices
 03/17 -  Defining dumbness downward
 03/17 -  Obama to visit Fayetteville, Charlotte
 03/17 -  NC organic farmers struggle to compete with hog giants
 03/16 -  A Wall Street domino theory
 03/15 -  Protecting the Internet without wrecking it
 03/15 -  Media hold McCain, Obama to different standards
 03/15 -  The war and the working class
 03/15 -  Who killed the 'living Constitution'?
 03/15 -  Supreme Court to hear historic gun-control case
 03/15 -  Help for our hemlocks?
 03/14 -  Are you happy?
 03/14 -  Practical steps to end poverty
 03/14 -  House rejects telco immunity; Shuler votes with GOP
 03/14 -  Bush intervened at 11th hour to weaken smog rules
 03/14 -  House secret session was a sham(e)
 03/14 -  Beseiged immigration agency chief resigns
 03/14 -  Clinton-Obama debate proposed for NC
 03/14 -  City firefighter's health plan refuses child's leukemia treatment
 03/13 -  Spitzer's shame is Wall Street's gain
 03/13 -  Group calls on 'Net users to protest online censorship
 03/13 -  The Spitzer scandal and corporate media's perverse ethics
 03/13 -  Pentagon cancels release of controversial Iraq report
 03/13 -  Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida
 03/13 -  Lawmakers should support Easley's water plan
 03/13 -  Obama scolds Clinton for writing off NC
 03/13 -  Could tiny fly help save our hemlocks?
 03/13 -  Economic impact of Haywood hospital crisis far-reaching
 03/11 -  Admiral's fall shows little room for Pentagon dissent
 03/11 -  Does Clinton have edge in foreign affairs?
 03/11 -  Southern Baptist leaders reverse course on climate change
 03/11 -  Opposing attack on Iran, top US commander resigns
 03/11 -  Obama beats Clinton in Mississippi
 03/10 -  Lawmaker says terrorists will celebrate Obama win
 03/10 -  Why knowledge and logic are political dirty words
 03/10 -  Obama struggles to stay above fray
 03/10 -  Reduce drug traces in tap water
 03/10 -  Easley vows to fix mental health system
 03/10 -  Waxman calls for Blackwater probe
 03/09 -  Democrat wins seat once held by GOP speaker
 03/09 -  Bush's new Medicaid cuts would hit NC poor hard
 03/09 -  David Cay Johnston, critic of US tax policy, to leave NY Times
 03/09 -  Nader sounds alarm on corporate state -- let him speak
 03/08 -  Obama wins Wyoming caucus
 03/07 -  FCC versus the public
 03/07 -  FBI admits more privacy violations
 03/06 -  Top war contractor using offshore tax dodge
 03/06 -  The greatest threat to us all
 03/06 -  Asheville 'highway blogger' found not guilty
 03/06 -  Obama on track to win majority of Texas delegates
 03/06 -  Can states cut carbon? EPA says no
 03/06 -  US homeowner equity is lowest since 1945
 03/06 -  McCain ignored rules in effort to privatize a public TV station for big donor
 03/06 -  Source: FBI has secret access to wireless phone traffic
 03/05 -  Ruling on mercury levels spurs challenge of Cliffside permit
 03/05 -  Wi-Fi censorship filters into major hot-spots
 03/05 -  Five myths about eco-friendly
 03/05 -  Stormwater runoff alarms Asheville neighborhood
 03/05 -  Congress can stop some election-year dirty tricks
 03/05 -  Will super-delegates pick the Democratic nominee?
 03/05 -  The changing face of Cherokee
 03/05 -  Mental health fallout: Fired press aide contradicts Easley's staff
 03/05 -  Easley seeks power to fix mental health system
 03/05 -  GOP may exploit Shuler immigration bill
 03/05 -  Climate change's most deadly threat: drought
 03/04 -  McCain seals nomination; Clinton takes Texas, Ohio
 03/04 -  Which candidate is most likely to meet the promise of 'change'?
 03/04 -  Law enforcement officials secretly profiling immigrants
 03/04 -  Wi-Fi users, beware
 03/04 -  NC-DOT opens mountain roads to bigger tractor-trailers
 03/04 -  Bigger tractor-trailers on mountain roads?
 03/04 -  Easley to address mental health services today
 03/03 -  Smoky Mountain News, Mountain Xpress win NC journalism awards
 03/03 -  John McCain, the wacky right, and NC think tanks
 03/03 -  Suspicions grow over missing White House emails
 03/03 -  NC should revoke the Cliffside permit
 03/02 -  It's Bush, not the telcos, who seeks immunity
 03/02 -  'Free Lunch" shows how taxpayers subsidize the wealthy
 03/02 -  Public financing of campaigns popular in NC
 03/02 -  Arguments mount for national health care system
 03/02 -  A card-carrying civil libertarian
 03/02 -  Top VA official quits over backlog of disability claims
 03/02 -  GOP to 'swift boat' Obama while McCain takes high road
 03/02 -  NC mental patients die from poor care; families in the dark
 03/02 -  Buncombe GOP elects first African-American chairman
 03/02 -  My forbidden fruits (and vegetables)
 03/01 -  'Clean' coal? Don't try to shovel that . . .
 03/01 -  Did Alabama station pull the plug on '60 Minutes'?
 03/01 -  Quaker teacher fired for changing loyalty oath
 03/01 -  Naomi Wolf: Why Obama got my vote
 03/01 -  Ohio primary hinges on NAFTA
 03/01 -  $3 trillion -- the war's true cost
 03/01 -  The Inherited Ghetto: Understanding why racial inequality endures
 03/01 -  Why women over 50 are Clinton's loyal supporters
 03/01 -  Caregivers abuse patients -- and usually get away with it