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MAIN News Archives for September 2008

 09/30 -  Doubts about Palin grow, even among conservatives
 09/30 -  Confusing talk radio with reality
 09/30 -  Turning TV static into 'Wi-Fi on steroids'
 09/30 -  Obama takes on NC immigration debate
 09/30 -  NC man accused of threatening Latino group
 09/30 -  America needs a new "New Deal'
 09/29 -  House rejects bailout plan, Dow plunges
 09/29 -  Dems target NC's 8th Congressional District
 09/28 -  The evolution of the American dream
 09/28 -  Bailout bill released
 09/28 -  Tom Wolfe: Shed not a tear for the 'Masters of the Universe'
 09/28 -  Bailout deal reached; Dems exact safeguards
 09/27 -  Looking for media bias in McCain-Obama coverage
 09/27 -  The disappearance of online privacy
 09/27 -  Conservative judges fault Scalia's opinion on guns
 09/27 -  How Wall Street can bail itself out without destroying the dollar
 09/27 -  Sheriff's racist comments spur prayer vigil in Smithfield
 09/27 -  Paul Newman dies at 83
 09/26 -  FactCheck the debate
 09/26 -  Does 'Keating 5' ring a bell?
 09/26 -  Towns that could be hit hardest by financial crisis
 09/26 -  Is the bailout needed? Many economists say 'no'
 09/26 -  Obama, Biden in Greensboro for noon rally on Saturday
 09/26 -  Palin defends construction of 'road to nowhere'
 09/26 -  WLOS drops anti-Perdue ad
 09/26 -  NC official: State pension funds could rescue Fed
 09/26 -  Divided GOP leaves bailout in doubt
 09/25 -  Top Bush officials debated torture, papers show
 09/25 -  Pols scramble to bring gas to WNC
 09/25 -  Studies: Healthcare strain grows for working families
 09/25 -  Conservative churches to challenge IRS nonprofit law
 09/25 -  Unregulated hedge funds seen as victors in Wall St. debacle
 09/25 -  Poll shows Obama with slight lead in NC
 09/25 -  Lawmakers regret vote to repeal bank regulations
 09/25 -  McCain's debate gamble
 09/25 -  Will 'white spaces' save the world?
 09/24 -  Energy efficiency through NC SAVE$
 09/24 -  Democrats cry uncle on drilling
 09/23 -  MAIN joins Google co-founder for Capitol Hill event
 09/23 -  Why won't Sarah Palin talk to the press?
 09/23 -  Supreme Court stays Georgia's execution of Troy Davis
 09/23 -  George Will having second thoughts about McCain
 09/23 -  House leader demands answers for DOJ's $40 million gift to Big Oil
 09/23 -  Georgia set to execute man who may be innocent
 09/22 -  Should bailouts spur new pay plans on Wall Street?
 09/22 -  Top McCain official paid nearly $2 million by mortage giants
 09/22 -  Social Security at risk? 'Cut benefits!' Wall Street? 'Bail them out!'
 09/22 -  The fleecing of America
 09/22 -  Florida urged to drop rule to restrict voting
 09/22 -  NC labor law fails to help fired workers
 09/22 -  Ridge and steep slope options published
 09/22 -  Obama aims to make NC blue
 09/21 -  Naomi Klein: Free market ideology is far from finished
 09/21 -  The GOP loves rural America to death
 09/21 -  Can we save our hemlocks?
 09/21 -  Busted: Judge says Cheney can't destroy records
 09/21 -  Obama, McCain and the future of the Supreme Court
 09/21 -  Bill Moyers: Kevin Phillips on the origins of Wall Street's meltdown
 09/20 -  Billions for Wall Street bailout will handcuff next president
 09/20 -  Durham man walks free after seven years in prison
 09/19 -  US drafts sweeping plan to fight financial crisis
 09/19 -  As goes the Dole-Hagan race, so goes the nation
 09/19 -  Meanness appears to rub off on TV viewers
 09/19 -  Biden on higher taxes: Be a patriot!
 09/19 -  Drought slows effort to save local hemlocks
 09/18 -  The coming surveillance state
 09/18 -  Wall Street socialists
 09/18 -  Beyond the New Deal
 09/18 -  Democrats slam GOP for 'manmade' economic disaster
 09/18 -  In NC, a marriage of conservation, justice, and jobs
 09/18 -  Real change in '08? Stop hating the other party
 09/18 -  Global warming law will boost California economy, study finds
 09/18 -  Ben Bernanke: 800 billion dollar man
 09/18 -  Haywood County's secret gift
 09/17 -  Food for thought: Think globally, can locally
 09/17 -  NC gets B-minus on campaign disclosure
 09/17 -  AIG bailout: Privatizing profits, socializing risk
 09/17 -  On Wall Street, the era of deregulation is over
 09/16 -  McCain's record contrasts with promises of Wall Sttreet reform
 09/16 -  For Palin, it's a (Christian) man's world
 09/16 -  NC in the presidential spotlight
 09/16 -  Judge's order: Parkside land must remain public
 09/15 -  Fired official says Palin lied to ABC News
 09/15 -  Trusting Wall Street
 09/15 -  Wall Street's meltdown after 28 years of deregulation
 09/15 -  Rural Broadband Hearing set for Tuesday at WCU
 09/14 -  Dole's race in NC sign of GOP struggle against itself
 09/14 -  Right-wing gymnastics: 'Murphy Brown' to Sarah Palin
 09/14 -  Executive pay and the 'market economy'
 09/14 -  The Palin Doctrine?
 09/14 -  Palin links Iraq to 9/11 attacks
 09/14 -  Putting lipstick on Wall Street's pig
 09/13 -  Will corporate media derail health care reform?
 09/13 -  McCain under fire for distortions
 09/12 -  Despite evidence, Palin denies global warming doubts
 09/12 -  New tests find more pharmaceuticals in drinking water
 09/12 -  Rule changes to give FBI agents extensive new powers
 09/12 -  NC sheriff apologizes for bigoted remarks about Latinos
 09/12 -  McCain distorts Obama's sex-ed record
 09/12 -  Easley activates price-gouging law as gas spikes
 09/12 -  Why this lifelong Republican may vote for Obama
 09/11 -  McCain winning the battle for free 'vapor' ads
 09/11 -  'Bill Moyers Journal' on hate speech and Knoxville shootings
 09/11 -  Who needs a good memory when there's Google?
 09/11 -  Federal watchdogs tamed by drinks, gifts, sex from Big Oil
 09/11 -  Under Palin, Wasilla charged rape victims for exams
 09/09 -  Sarah Palin and the Wasilla Church of God
 09/09 -  Election wild card: first-time voters
 09/09 -  MAIN board acts on WPVM
 09/09 -  Cherokee artifacts halt construction of sewer plant
 09/09 -  Google to re-publish 244 years of newspaper articles?
 09/09 -  Media bias? Not if this website can help it
 09/09 -  Hiding Sarah Palin behind 'deference'
 09/09 -  Taxpayers on hook for Fannie, Freddie to ease foreign fears
 09/09 -  NC House considers TV broadcast
 09/08 -  The vanishing Republican voter
 09/08 -  McCain, Palin differ on global warming
 09/08 -  An email to friends from Wasilla becomes an Internet hit
 09/08 -  Storm troopers at the RNC
 09/08 -  Fact-checking the convention speeches
 09/08 -  White House ignored military brass on Iraq
 09/07 -  GOP: Red, white & blue . . . mostly white
 09/07 -  How the 2008 electoral map has changed
 09/07 -  The mighty, scary press corps
 09/07 -  McCain's history of hot temper raises concerns
 09/07 -  Palin and McCain's shotgun wedding
 09/05 -  Energy guru Amory Lovins: Voice in the wilderness no more
 09/05 -  Unemployment rate hits five-year high
 09/05 -  McCain must lay out economic plan
 09/05 -  When government cracks down on a free press
 09/04 -  High crimes: Moving on is not an option
 09/04 -  Obama: The price of being black
 09/04 -  How long will politicians ignore CEO pay?
 09/04 -  Palin was for earmarks before she was against them
 09/04 -  More turmoil at Justice Dept. as top deputy is fired
 09/04 -  Abramoff gets four years in prison
 09/04 -  RNC protest arrests: security or repression?
 09/04 -  Biden: If elected, Obama could seek criminal charges against Bush
 09/03 -  Tale of two Johns: McCain, Edwards and adultery
 09/03 -  Joe Lieberman's fetish
 09/03 -  Obama counters McCain with Fox News interview
 09/03 -  Arrests of journalists at RNC sparks outrage
 09/03 -  McCain's big decision
 09/03 -  Should the candidate with the most votes win the White House?
 09/03 -  Pollster: Obama doing well in conservative NC districts
 09/02 -  Palin's trouble with the police
 09/02 -  Absence of Bush, Cheney cheers GOP delegates
 09/01 -  Palin's national security cred: Alaska is close to Russia
 09/01 -  Protests for peace in a military stronghold
 09/01 -  After wrecking FEMA, Bush scrambles to restore it
 09/01 -  Amy Goodman, others arrested outside GOP convention