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MAIN News Archives for December 2008

 12/31 -  Tennessee landowners file $165 million lawsuit over TVA coal ash spill
 12/31 -  NC tightens rules on hog farms
 12/31 -  Will 'white spaces' broadband unite Europe?
 12/29 -  When textile quotas end this week, will jobs go too?
 12/29 -  A hundred eyes for an eye
 12/29 -  TVA coal ash disaster threatens Tennessee River
 12/29 -  AT&T moves to quash NC marketing rule
 12/29 -  Feds delay decision on recreation use of upper Chattooga River
 12/29 -  A second look at city-wide Wi-Fi
 12/24 -  Will Obama's war strategy yield a peace dividend?
 12/24 -  Dan Rather hopes to tell Bush story in court
 12/23 -  Is 'Connected Nation' a trojan horse? And what's it doing in NC?
 12/23 -  A-B Tech president resigns
 12/23 -  Obama's health care czar taps Asheville native for key post
 12/23 -  Public notice error forces delay of pivotal I-26 meeting
 12/23 -  Telecom lobbyists line up for piece of Obama's stimulus
 12/22 -  'Last auction hero' arrested for bidding on public lands
 12/22 -  Bush aide, linked to missing White House emails, dies in plane crash
 12/22 -  A warrior for workers
 12/22 -  Did Bush officials commit war crimes?
 12/22 -  Conservative talk radio shifts to offense
 12/22 -  Cheney, Biden spar over executive power
 12/21 -  Obama team seeking stimulus bill by new year
 12/21 -  Florida family sent to prison for enslaving tomato pickers
 12/18 -  New business models for news are not that new
 12/16 -  Identity of domestic spying whistleblower revealed
 12/16 -  The shoe heard round the world
 12/16 -  What exactly does an 'energy czar' do?
 12/14 -  Remembering Chico Mendes
 12/14 -  Union win at NC hog plant took 16 years
 12/13 -  Socialism for the rich
 12/13 -  Blank checks for Wall Street, pink slips for Detroit
 12/13 -  Obama's green team
 12/13 -  NC law may be helping state buck foreclosure trend
 12/12 -  Cable battle: Are civic channels sent to TV abyss?
 12/12 -  Activists say new rule guts Endangered Species Act
 12/12 -  Auto bailout failure reveals regional carmaking split
 12/12 -  Workers at huge NC pork plant win union vote
 12/12 -  Obama: In the irony-free zone
 12/12 -  Chicago sit-in empowers laid-off workers
 12/12 -  GOP Senators to auto workers: Drop dead
 12/10 -  FCC opens door to bigger wireless web
 12/08 -  NRA calls the shots on NC's illegal gun trade
 12/08 -  Connecting the nation
 12/08 -  Obama criticizes Bush response to home foreclosures
 12/08 -  Blackwater guards surrender
 12/08 -  Local living-wage advocates celebrate successes
 12/06 -  ABC News and 'overpaid' autoworkers
 12/06 -  Mistakes may have raised US bio-terror risk
 12/04 -  Bank of America to stop financing mountaintop removal mining
 12/04 -  America's 'other' auto industry: lower wages, benefits, and no sympathy for Detroit
 12/04 -  Judge: Duke must comply with Clean Air Act at Cliffside; construction goes on
 12/04 -  Let's stop wasting precious water cooling inefficient power plants
 12/04 -  Renewable energy a core solution to many problems
 12/03 -  Another debate about God roils Capitol's new visitor center
 12/03 -  EPA to gut mountaintop removal rule that protects streams
 12/03 -  Shuler's potential 2010 opponents?
 12/02 -  Will Obama push for universal broadband?
 12/02 -  Is wealth relative to desire?
 12/02 -  ABC News lets Bush maintain lie about Iraq WMD inspections
 12/02 -  High-tech firms celebrate 'white spaces' future
 12/01 -  Change that immigrants and labor can believe in
 12/01 -  Bush moves forward with 'secret' OSHA rule
 12/01 -  Even empty, FEMA trailers cost $28 million a year
 12/01 -  Global climate talks aim for trust
 12/01 -  Catholic leaders attack Disney for false spirituality