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MAIN News Archives for August 2008

 08/31 -  Palin flip-flopped on 'Bridge to Nowhere'
 08/31 -  FEMA says weaknesses remain in its disaster-response
 08/31 -  Twin Cities police raid suspected protesters
 08/31 -  Obama outwits the bloviators
 08/31 -  Mayor orders the evacuation of New Orleans
 08/30 -  NC rep sparred with Palin over Big Oil funding of climate 'science'
 08/30 -  NBC news anchor warns Dems to lay off McCain
 08/29 -  McCain taps Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as VP
 08/29 -  Credit card rage
 08/29 -  Strange bedfellows behind anti-Obama 'turban' ad
 08/29 -  Gustav could be perfect political spin storm
 08/29 -  Text of Barack Obama's speech
 08/28 -  Poverty is the real scandal
 08/28 -  The greatest failure of thought in human history
 08/28 -  Obama: 'Not the time for small plans'
 08/28 -  Judge rules in favor of Pack family in Parkside lawsuit
 08/28 -  Clean energy incubator seeks instructors
 08/28 -  Wind energy bumps into power grid's limits
 08/28 -  ABC News staffer arrested in Denver for videotaping senators with big donors
 08/26 -  AT&T thanks Blue Dog Democrats with lavish party
 08/25 -  Web's 'big bang' realigning media universe
 08/25 -  Judge to rule on Parkside later this week
 08/24 -  Pack deeds, handwritten in 1901, key to Parkside deal
 08/24 -  Verdict on Pack family's Parkside lawsuit set for Monday
 08/24 -  Walter Jones: From 'Freedom Fries' to anti-Bush tomes
 08/24 -  It's time to ditch 'Change We Can Believe In'
 08/24 -  Biden should help Obama in Florida
 08/24 -  Bad signs: Polar bears on long-distance swims
 08/24 -  A teacher on the front line as faith and science clash
 08/24 -  Fed chairman urges broad market oversight
 08/24 -  Indy films struggle to be seen
 08/24 -  Journalists and their good friends in the White House
 08/24 -  Biden's kitchen table populism
 08/21 -  McCain stumbles on how many houses he owns
 08/21 -  Diebold admits voting machine programming error
 08/21 -  City of Reno to sue Charter over public access TV channels
 08/21 -  Door to NC community colleges shuts on undocumented
 08/21 -  Neocons seek third term in McCain campaign
 08/21 -  McCrory, Perdue differ . . . only in degrees
 08/21 -  A dispiriting debate about North Carolina's future
 08/20 -  White House missing hundreds of days of email
 08/20 -  Elderly Chinese women request protest permit, now face 're-education'
 08/20 -  Watchdogs make it harder for politicians to stretch the truth
 08/20 -  Gorbachev: Russia didn't start this war
 08/20 -  McCain's record: He's no friend of Internet Freedom
 08/20 -  Key US strategy in Iraq in danger of collapse
 08/20 -  FCC urged to use vacant TV channels for high-speed Internet
 08/19 -  Taking the US to war is not the president's call
 08/19 -  Big Oil puts big money into lobbying
 08/19 -  Obama sharpens message in Raleigh
 08/19 -  Corporations use $20 billion tax loophole
 08/19 -  DOJ pushes to keep Bush aides from testifying
 08/19 -  NC nurses ignored mental patient as he died
 08/19 -  Swift Boat economics
 08/19 -  Court: Doctors can't use bias to deny treatment to gays
 08/18 -  The right's plot: Take power, loot the state, enrich allies, cripple liberal options
 08/18 -  Immigration raids net US citizens
 08/18 -  Lobbying loopholes enable lavish convention parties
 08/18 -  Guns in national parks?
 08/18 -  MAIN joins Google's 'Free the Airwaves' campaign
 08/18 -  Pull the plug on Duke Energy plan
 08/18 -  Some fear seeking health care amid immigration hysteria
 08/17 -  MAIN featured in national magazine
 08/17 -  DOT to hold I-26 Connector hearing Sept. 16
 08/17 -  Fact-checking the Swiftboaters
 08/17 -  On the same stage, Obama and McCain mix religion, politics
 08/17 -  A push to ban psychologists' role in torture
 08/17 -  Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?
 08/17 -  Outsiders spending big on NC races
 08/15 -  Journalists must speak up!
 08/15 -  Raids a poor substitute for real immigration policy
 08/15 -  Scope of WNC drought demands new thinking, action
 08/15 -  Bush gets another glimpse into Putin's soul
 08/15 -  Ocean dead zones doubling every decade
 08/15 -  There's a new preacher in town
 08/15 -  The smell of stagflation
 08/14 -  Bush, McCain and empty promises in Georgia
 08/14 -  Is Georgia war a neo-con election ploy?
 08/14 -  US claims about terror suspect in doubt
 08/14 -  Ralph Reed's link to McCain stirs controversy
 08/14 -  NC board to weigh college admission for undocumented
 08/13 -  Bush's latest critic: Chamber of Commerce
 08/13 -  Poor see gains of 1990s reversed
 08/13 -  Immigration police cite homeland security in WNC plant raid
 08/12 -  Cokie Roberts, travel agent
 08/12 -  The ideology of bad government
 08/12 -  Top Republicans endorse Obama
 08/12 -  WNC defense contractor raided by immigration police
 08/12 -  US hands out $3.5 billion in Iraq 'petty cash'
 08/12 -  US taxpayers on the hook in Russia-Georgia war
 08/12 -  Wireless to the People
 08/11 -  Questions corporate media will not ask
 08/11 -  Will US retirement age become an election issue?
 08/11 -  White House passed up deal to turn Hamden against Al Qaeda
 08/10 -  Why can't the media cover poverty?
 08/10 -  GOP to challenge legality of new NC voters
 08/10 -  Why the End Times may be the end of McCain
 08/10 -  What's sex got to do with it?
 08/10 -  US guns arms Mexican drug cartels
 08/10 -  Burton Street community sign sends a message
 08/09 -  Whole Foods cuts deal for mountain tomatoes
 08/09 -  Transcript of CIA interview on forged document
 08/09 -  How Tenet betrayed the CIA on Iraq WMD
 08/09 -  China: Humiliation and the Olympics
 08/09 -  Tuckasegee residents wary of 'eco-development'
 08/09 -  McCain, Obama get specific on energy
 08/08 -  Welcome to Beijing: Police State 2.0
 08/08 -  Edwards admits affair
 08/08 -  Archaic rules put immigrants between a rock and a hard place
 08/08 -  Donation bundling under fire as McCain returns $50,000
 08/08 -  Legal debate swirls around Gitmo's first war crimes conviction
 08/08 -  Duke Power's 'Save a Watt' criticized as dim bulb
 08/08 -  GOP activists funded by US taxpayers?
 08/08 -  Suskind to post transcipt of CIA interview on 'forged' document
 08/08 -  Banned in Beijing
 08/08 -  Parkside opponents ask city to invoke eminent domain
 08/07 -  Why more oil is not the answer
 08/07 -  Edwards urged to address tabloid story
 08/06 -  Did Chevy-driving couple give $61,000 to McCain, GOP?
 08/06 -  McCain's green-eyed monster
 08/06 -  Parkside developer: City Hall magnolia could go in 35 days
 08/06 -  A bundle of donors makes an odd lot
 08/06 -  What's black and dirty and messing with the climate?
 08/05 -  Why did ABC News link anthrax attacks to Saddam Hussein?
 08/05 -  Solar power breakthrough stores energy for later use
 08/05 -  Study: 2.5 million children view R-rated violence
 08/05 -  New book says White House ordered Iraq forgery
 08/05 -  McCain, anthrax, and the Afghan blunder
 08/05 -  How cable drives the news
 08/05 -  Obama, race, and selective memory
 08/05 -  Obama campaign busy in NC
 08/04 -  Bill Moyers with Thomas Frank on 'The Wrecking Crew'
 08/04 -  Pipeline expansions stir safety concerns
 08/04 -  White House told FBI to blame anthrax scare on Al Qaeda
 08/04 -  Companies raid pension plans to fund executive benefits
 08/04 -  Battle over Confederate flag hits highways
 08/04 -  One benefit of drought: cleaner beaches
 08/03 -  CNN anchor, married to Bush staffer, mocks abuse-of-power hearings
 08/03 -  Polls show McCain's smear tactics are working
 08/03 -  High stakes battle for rural broadband
 08/03 -  Upstairs, a glittering Chilean salon; below, a torture chamber
 08/03 -  Medical bills pinch elderly
 08/02 -  Wal-Mart warns managers of Democratic win
 08/02 -  Journey to 'The Dark Side"
 08/02 -  US hospitals deporting immigrants
 08/02 -  Who speaks for America's small businesses?
 08/02 -  Garrison Keillor: No time for dithering
 08/01 -  Is Obama warming to offshore drilling?
 08/01 -  An open letter to Barack Obama
 08/01 -  Freedom of Information requests backlogged
 08/01 -  FCC slaps Comcast for 'net neutrality' violation