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MAIN News Archives for October 2008

 10/31 -  Van Jones on a Green New Deal
 10/31 -  A fateful election
 10/31 -  Studs Terkel, guerilla journalist, dead at 96
 10/31 -  Humane groceries: Can you trust labels like 'cage-free'?
 10/30 -  Mourning old media's decline
 10/29 -  With free use of airwaves, TV broadcasters reap political ad bonanza
 10/29 -  Long waits mar early voting in some states
 10/29 -  Some anti-abortion Catholics turn to Obama
 10/29 -  Dole's 'Godless' ad, out of bounds?
 10/29 -  FCC ruling on 'white spaces' could boost rural broadband Internet
 10/28 -  Tax dollars will be used to boost Wall Street bonuses
 10/28 -  McCain calls on Ted Stevens to resign
 10/28 -  Broadcasters' divine right to the public airwaves?
 10/27 -  Feds disrupt skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
 10/27 -  Palin's off-script comments irk McCain staffers
 10/27 -  Progress Energy: Pay us now, we will build later
 10/27 -  Using the Web to protect the vote
 10/27 -  Alaskan Sen. Ted Stevens convicted on all counts
 10/27 -  How Obama's tax plan would 'spread the wealth around'
 10/27 -  Zogby: McCain within striking distance of upset
 10/27 -  Alaska's largest newspaper endorses Obama
 10/27 -  Will NC suffer this election's butterfly ballot?
 10/27 -  Banks to use bailout bucks for mergers, not lending
 10/27 -  Strategist: GOP's best hope is Senate gridlock
 10/27 -  Members of Congress insulated from retirement meltdown
 10/27 -  Bush intervenes in Ohio vote dispute
 10/27 -  In Missouri, fervor fades for McCain in GOP stronghold
 10/27 -  Wearing jeans, Palin talks taxes in Asheville
 10/26 -  Why is NC up for grabs? Consider the newcomers
 10/26 -  Sarah Palin's 'macaca' moment
 10/25 -  AP probe: Palin's pipeline bidding slanted to favored firm
 10/25 -  Blame game: McCain staff, GOP form circular firing squad
 10/25 -  Lehman Brothers execs served with subpoenas
 10/25 -  Why progressive taxation is not socialism
 10/25 -  What's to be done about 'The Predator State'?
 10/25 -  The threat of a stolen election
 10/24 -  The NAB vs. Reality
 10/24 -  FCC vote on the 'white spaces' to be delayed?
 10/24 -  Al-Qaeda leaders pulling for McCain
 10/24 -  Dalton picks up N&O endorsement for Lt. Governor
 10/24 -  Bush to seek diplomatic presence in Iran
 10/23 -  Sarah Palin coming to Asheville
 10/23 -  Voting machines in Tennessee flip votes
 10/23 -  Credit crunch hits college students
 10/23 -  The battle for Obama's economic soul
 10/23 -  Helping kids break stereotypes
 10/23 -  EPA weakens new lead rule after White House intervenes
 10/23 -  Palin wardrobe expenses spur complaint to FEC
 10/23 -  Opie says Obama has Mayberry spirit
 10/23 -  Greenspan admits 'flaw' in free market ideology
 10/22 -  AIG agrees to suspend millions in executive bonuses
 10/22 -  Is the US chemical industry aiding terrorists?
 10/21 -  Bill McKibben on Thomas Friedman's 'Green Revolution'
 10/21 -  Chris Hedges: The idiots who rule America
 10/21 -  ACLU to US: Are troops being deployed within our borders?
 10/21 -  In NC, a cinderella story, out of nowhere
 10/21 -  Secret Service denies blocking reporters at Palin rallies
 10/21 -  Attacks on Obama have many roots
 10/19 -  Big Coal: Corporate responsibility is for sissies
 10/19 -  Sy Hersh: America's most feared journalist?
 10/19 -  The battle for the Old Confederacy
 10/19 -  North Carolina now a must-win for GOP
 10/19 -  Powell offers broad critique of 'narrowing' GOP
 10/19 -  Palin clarifies that all of US is 'pro-America'
 10/19 -  Colin Powell endorses Obama
 10/18 -  McCain, Obama's vastly different worldviews
 10/17 -  Moyers Journal: Could this election be rigged?
 10/17 -  NC jobless rate hits 7 percent
 10/17 -  NC voters beware: Straight-ticket vote does not include Obama-McCain race
 10/16 -  Attorneys spar in federal court over Cliffside power plant
 10/16 -  'Joe the Plumber' is not what he seems
 10/16 -  Top GOP fundraiser tied to shady Iraq fuel contract
 10/16 -  FCC says 'white spaces' can work for Net access
 10/16 -  'We're all hosed': A Wall Street insider talks
 10/16 -  AIG still lobbies to relax oversight rules
 10/16 -  Elizabeth Dole finds a once-safe race less so
 10/16 -  Debates still no place for average Joes
 10/16 -  Citizen journalism feels heat after false report on Apple
 10/16 -  Who's the real 'reformer' in NC governor's race?
 10/16 -  Early voting in NC begins today
 10/16 -  Cliffside lawsuit gets underway
 10/15 -  Scientists seek a more sustainable model for growth
 10/15 -  AIG execs threatened with legal action over luxury spending
 10/15 -  McClatchy honored for independent reporting
 10/15 -  Got a problem with rural cell phone service? McCain has an answer
 10/15 -  Demonstrators ask NC to revoke Duke's Cliffside permit
 10/14 -  Shining a light on the NSA's 'shadow factory'
 10/14 -  Stock market upheaval is petty compared to eco-collapse
 10/14 -  State whistleblowers, including one from NC, warned of subprime risk
 10/14 -  House panel probes political censorship at EPA
 10/14 -  Did NSA lie, cover-up? Senate opens second probe
 10/14 -  Is an Obama landslide possible?
 10/14 -  Credit crisis overturns free market ideology
 10/14 -  Supreme Court hears NC voting rights case
 10/13 -  The man behind the whispers about Obama
 10/13 -  Christopher Hitchens, scourge of Bill Clinton, backs Obama
 10/13 -  Farmworkers bring tales of modern-day slavery to Asheville
 10/13 -  Paul Krugman, economist and columnist, wins Nobel Prize
 10/13 -  Why won't ABC air that clean-energy ad?
 10/13 -  Blood in the water in North Carolina
 10/13 -  NC voting myths debunked
 10/13 -  McCrory championed big projects in Charlotte
 10/12 -  The end of American capitalism?
 10/12 -  The far right's shameless economic mythmaking
 10/12 -  Fiesta Latina, community life unfiltered
 10/12 -  Private-sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis
 10/12 -  GOP misrule: Why culture warriors turn con-men
 10/12 -  Palin's husband, Todd, took active role in governing Alaska
 10/12 -  Milking missile-defense for millions
 10/12 -  DOT board games
 10/11 -  New York teachers sue over ban on campaign buttons
 10/10 -  McCain booed by supporters for defending Obama
 10/10 -  Alaska inquiry concludes Palin abused powers
 10/10 -  How did GOP get $8 million 'bailout' from NC-based Wachovia?
 10/10 -  After this election, NC to change how it verifies voters
 10/10 -  How should a sincere 'values voter' proceed?
 10/09 -  New US intelligence casts doubt on 'victory' in Iraq
 10/09 -  Feds probe voter validation methods in NC, five other states
 10/09 -  Ballot monkey-business
 10/08 -  'Son of privilege . . . the right to rule'
 10/08 -  Doubts raised about promise of liquid coal
 10/08 -  FCC to probe Pentagon-funded information campaign
 10/08 -  Perdue promises reform at DOT
 10/08 -  Ending the US-Cuba embargo is a win-win
 10/08 -  More Obama in Asheville photos
 10/08 -  'Spectacle of anger and insult'
 10/08 -  Blogging in WNC
 10/07 -  Judge frees Chinese Muslims held at Gitmo for nearly seven years
 10/07 -  Conservative university could swing Virginia
 10/06 -  Bobby Medford, ex-Buncombe sheriff, gets 15 years
 10/06 -  Asheville critics get under Fox News' skin
 10/06 -  Where do McCain and Obama stand on US media policy?
 10/06 -  Former publisher of National Review endorses Obama
 10/06 -  Obama promises health plan before end of first term
 10/05 -  Elite officer breaks silence to tell how Bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora
 10/05 -  John McCain, make-believe maverick
 10/05 -  How a new Congress can break Wall Street's money monopoly
 10/05 -  Can't access your Gmail? Another reason for local ISPs
 10/05 -  Immigrants hurt when notaries go beyond law
 10/04 -  The US in shambles, under GOP rule
 10/04 -  For DC pols, the reason for lax oversight is a $64 million question
 10/04 -  More than 10,000 expected for Obama rally
 10/04 -  Protecting voter rights
 10/04 -  Sarah Palin's role model: Dick Cheney?
 10/03 -  Justice Department, Bush-style
 10/03 -  George Soros: The man who saw it coming
 10/03 -  An interview with Barack Obama
 10/03 -  Corporate censorship and the bailout debate
 10/03 -  Congress passes historic bailout, Bush signs it
 10/02 -  No help for homeowners?
 10/02 -  Nixon, Bush, McCain, rolling the dice
 10/02 -  Palin's American exception
 10/02 -  Filings attempt to block 'Troopergate' probe
 10/02 -  DOJ report implicates White House in firing of prosecutors
 10/01 -  Senate passes bailout, House may vote Friday
 10/01 -  Poll: Barely half of newly registered voters plan to vote
 10/01 -  Obama to practice for debate in Asheville
 10/01 -  The line between politics and religion in Haywood County

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