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MAIN News Archives for April 2008

 04/30 -  John McCain, faux 'reformer'
 04/30 -  Jeremiah Wright is not the problem
 04/30 -  Clinton blasts Bush for not halting China sale her husband OK'ed
 04/30 -  Cheney lawyer claims Congress has no authority over VP
 04/30 -  A drinking man's guide to Asheville political geography
 04/30 -  'Small wind' power plants blowing strong
 04/30 -  Obama breaks with Rev. Wright
 04/29 -  Obama runs full-court with Tar Heels
 04/29 -  Damn the sound-bites, Rev. Wright creates his own context
 04/28 -  Easley to endorse Clinton
 04/28 -  Did you hear what McCain really did in Vietnam?
 04/28 -  Jimmy Carter on 'talking to terrorists'
 04/28 -  'Military propaganda pushed me off TV'
 04/28 -  Supreme Court shows partisan stripes, upholds voter ID law
 04/28 -  Lady Macbeth versus Billy Budd
 04/27 -  Virgin Media scoffs at 'net neutrality'
 04/27 -  The ritual flaying of Jimmy Carter
 04/27 -  GOP senator cited for pressuring US attorney
 04/27 -  When retired generals lie
 04/27 -  TV networks dodge PBS report on 'Pentagon pundits'
 04/27 -  Moving food around the world at high environmental cost
 04/27 -  What should our immigration policy be?
 04/26 -  Charlotte TV station refuses NC-GOP attack ad
 04/26 -  Contradictions abound in McCain's 'poverty tour'
 04/25 -  Do media treat black and white preachers differently?
 04/25 -  Moyers interview with Jeremiah Wright airs tonight
 04/25 -  Obama urges swift passage of media concentration bill
 04/25 -  It's time to change America's apartheid view of the world
 04/25 -  WRAL refuses to run GOP attack ad
 04/25 -  Small towns, big problems
 04/25 -  With military brass in tow, Hillary plants the flag in WNC
 04/25 -  Lasik alums talking to FDA
 04/25 -  An interview with George Soros
 04/24 -  McCain backer repeats Katrina-as-punishment for gay pride claim
 04/24 -  Senate panel rejects FCC media ownership rule
 04/24 -  'Expelled' seeks 'freedom' to confuse science with religion
 04/24 -  Asheville WordFest: Poetry for the people!
 04/24 -  Senate GOP blocks unequal pay bill
 04/24 -  A hard plastic is raising hard questions
 04/24 -  Senator: VA is lying about veteran suicides
 04/24 -  Top Justice official admits Abramoff fueled his regal life
 04/24 -  NC voters wonder who will fix the economy
 04/24 -  53 Democratic sheriffs endorse Walter Dalton
 04/24 -  Why Hillary is still eating Obama's dust
 04/24 -  Smathers vows to empower local leaders
 04/23 -  Why making cops squeal on undocumented workers is a bad idea
 04/23 -  Harvey Gantt endorses Beverly Perdue
 04/23 -  More than 40 top Edwards supporters endorse Obama
 04/23 -  Hillary at Asheville Civic Center, 8 p.m. Thursday
 04/23 -  Pa. primary results and data analysis
 04/22 -  How Bush-Cheney muzzled the watchdog press
 04/22 -  Murdoch to challenge FCC's media ownership rule
 04/22 -  Pay no attention to the pundits behind the curtain
 04/22 -  Low road to victory in Pennsylvania
 04/22 -  Farm bill: Making America fat and polluted, one subsidy at a time
 04/21 -  Bailout-happy Washington slow to help homeowners
 04/21 -  US news media's latest disgrace
 04/21 -  Pa. voters weigh tradition or change, Clinton or Obama
 04/21 -  Campaign finance law challenged on behalf of wealthy candidates
 04/21 -  McCain's tax policy: Digging a deeper hole
 04/21 -  Why bother going green?
 04/21 -  Perdue tells liquor-industry lobbyist to back off
 04/20 -  Poets power four-day celebration of language
 04/20 -  Frank Rich on ABC's 'televised train wreck'
 04/20 -  Despite GOP spin, capital gains tax cuts go to the wealthy
 04/20 -  Free speech, Beat poets, and Black Mtn. College
 04/20 -  Was Abe Lincoln a Tar Heel?
 04/19 -  Pentagon study calls Iraq war 'a major debacle' with outcome 'in doubt'
 04/19 -  Bottle maker to stop using plastic linked to health concerns
 04/19 -  Behind TV analysts, the hidden hand of the Pentagon
 04/19 -  Big Media conflicted over rising populism
 04/18 -  Poll: Democrats say Obama is more electable
 04/18 -  John Edwards wins Colbert debate
 04/18 -  'Millionaire's Amendment' election reform at risk
 04/18 -  Will the right and corporate media let us get over the '60s?
 04/18 -  Obama questions value of NC debate
 04/17 -  Right-wing bias and trivia win ABC News debate
 04/17 -  Asheville's 'Wi-Fi City' featured in MuniWireless.com
 04/17 -  Guns and Bitter
 04/17 -  Q & A with Jim Hightower
 04/17 -  Media's double standard on Obama and McCain's fundraising promises?
 04/17 -  ABC News under fire for 'worst debate ever'
 04/17 -  Haywood citizens speak out on development
 04/15 -  Ex-Secret Service agents ran black-ops against green groups
 04/15 -  Despite market woes, organics grow
 04/14 -  Tim Robbins 'apologizes' to Rush Limbaugh, electrifies NAB convention
 04/14 -  Mortgage turmoil also affecting renters
 04/14 -  Socializing Wall Street's risktaking
 04/14 -  NY Times downplays McCain's neo-con ties
 04/14 -  Climate change panel Tuesday in Asheville
 04/14 -  McKibben: 'Where have all the joiners gone?'
 04/14 -  Rich getting richer: campaign issue?
 04/14 -  Burger King wants to have its way with tomato pickers
 04/13 -  What about the missing White House emails?
 04/13 -  Lobbyists spend record sums in DC
 04/13 -  Right-wing calls Obama 'elitist' . . . and so does Hillary
 04/13 -  Hippies chill in Dharamsala
 04/13 -  Bush's Iraq strategy: Run out the clock
 04/13 -  Moyers: 'Cash cows and cowboy starter kits'
 04/13 -  Public comment on transit plan for poor and disabled
 04/13 -  The governor who stayed out of Raleigh
 04/12 -  Phil Donahue's 'War'
 04/12 -  How ordinary Americans subsidize yachts and private clubs
 04/12 -  Sustainability Expo a hit in Waynesville
 04/12 -  NC high court upholds grants of public funds to corporations
 04/12 -  Is it time to enlarge the US House?
 04/12 -  Drugs in our water: Should we care?
 04/12 -  Legal immigrants, until they sought citizenship
 04/12 -  Clear Channel benches NC shock jock for three days
 04/11 -  Internet guru sets out to change Congress
 04/11 -  Poetry's power to cleanse politics, redeem language
 04/11 -  More cities offer Wi-Fi on buses
 04/11 -  Authors clash with Amazon over on-demand publishing
 04/11 -  FCC fines major retailers for silence on TV changes
 04/10 -  Going soft on corporate crime
 04/10 -  Two speeches on race by two lawyers from Illinois
 04/10 -  Whis is the NC Democratic Party siding with Clinton on debates?
 04/10 -  Longshoremen to close West Coast ports to protest war
 04/10 -  Has the right's contempt for self-government ruined it for the rest of us?
 04/10 -  Murdoch may join Microsoft bid for Yahoo
 04/10 -  'Citizen scientists' watch for signs of climate change
 04/10 -  Al Qaeda mastermind believed dead
 04/10 -  Voter registration soars in NC
 04/10 -  Congress to Petraeus: Show us a withdrawal plan
 04/09 -  Friday is deadline for registering to vote in May 6 primary
 04/09 -  In major shift, Justice Dept. cuts deals with criminal corporations
 04/09 -  Pentagon tells NC lawmaker not to air Green Zone video
 04/09 -  Chevron faces $16 billion environmental lawsuit
 04/09 -  Moore spins Obama endorsement to NC black voters
 04/08 -  McCain AWOL as Petraeus is grilled by Senate panel
 04/08 -  How 'Slaughterhouse Five' was born
 04/08 -  The Bank and Homebuilder Bailout Act of 2008
 04/08 -  Ultimate inequality in North Carolina
 04/08 -  Rural broadband fix hinges on 'white spaces' spectrum battle
 04/08 -  Congress continues to press for DOJ documents
 04/08 -  Secret US plan for military future in Iraq
 04/07 -  The surge is prolonging instability
 04/07 -  Obama, a candidate who found a movement
 04/07 -  Lawlessness of military contractors
 04/07 -  How green is your presidential candidate?
 04/07 -  Reporter cracks open scores of civil rights cases
 04/07 -  From Buncombe Bob to the 'Tar Heel Fuhrer'
 04/06 -  Small farmer wins moral victory over Monsanto
 04/06 -  Controversial PR executive quits Clinton campaign
 04/06 -  McCain, Clinton, Obama in spotlight of Petraeus hearings
 04/06 -  Iraqis angered by Blackwater contract renewal
 04/06 -  Executive pay soars via 'boardroom buddy system'
 04/06 -  Poll finds NC voters trust Obama more than Clinton
 04/05 -  Asheville High dropout wins prestigious Truman Scholarship
 04/05 -  North Carolinians register to vote in record numbers
 04/05 -  If guitar makers ruled the Internet?
 04/05 -  How Ivy League conservatives changed the meaning of 'elites'
 04/05 -  US funded health search engine blocks 'abortion' queries
 04/05 -  The right-wing attacks public greenways
 04/04 -  If 'Granny' were real, she'd like the idea of 'Wi-Fi on steroids'
 04/04 -  Your Internet provider is watching you
 04/04 -  Progress Energy juices up executives' pay
 04/04 -  MLK: An assassination remembered
 04/04 -  It's time for a fully-funded, federal 'green energy' plan
 04/04 -  Behind the Senate bill on housing relief
 04/03 -  Clinton, Obama at odds over date for NC debate
 04/03 -  Another death row inmate freed in NC
 04/03 -  Clinton on the sidelines in effort to end Iraq War
 04/03 -  The corporate manufacture of doubt
 04/03 -  The GOP war on voting
 04/03 -  Pentagon overspent budget by $295 billion
 04/03 -  A good grade for Teach for America
 04/03 -  NC media say state emails must be saved
 04/03 -  'White spaces' spectrum battle heats up
 04/03 -  FAA whistleblower sparks airline safety hearing
 04/02 -  The death and life of the American newspaper
 04/02 -  Oil spill fouls Sweeten Creek
 04/01 -  Beware chain emails, especially in an election year
 04/01 -  Supreme Court takes on 10 Commandments case
 04/01 -  Congress has big questions for Big Oil