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MAIN News Archives for January 2010

 01/31 -  DMV sites a challenge to the disabled
 01/31 -  Despite bad press, Congress is on track for record productivity
 01/30 -  Organic dairy farms being crushed by factory operations
 01/30 -  Obama requests 'serious conversation' with House GOP
 01/30 -  The myth of 'liberal' corruption in NC
 01/29 -  Why did NPR use right-wing pundit for Howard Zinn obituary?
 01/29 -  As suffering in NC grows, conventional wisdom averts its eyes
 01/29 -  UNC-TV to broadcast Perdue's emergency briefings
 01/29 -  Easley aide's arrest puts reform on fast-track
 01/29 -  Jury reaches guilty verdict in murder of abortion doctor
 01/29 -  Blue Cross/Blue Shield of NC fined for robo-calls to kill healthcare reform
 01/29 -  How to fix a mountainside
 01/28 -  Study sheds new light on why college professors are more liberal
 01/28 -  Howard Zinn's lesson to us all
 01/28 -  Howard Zinn, the historian who made history
 01/28 -  A closer look at newspaper subsidies
 01/27 -  Howard Zinn, historian who challenged the status quo, is dead at 87
 01/27 -  CBS accepts anti-abortion ad for Super Bowl
 01/26 -  Justice Stevens blasts 'radical' court ruling
 01/26 -  Could court ruling on corporate speech jeopardize Internet freedom?
 01/26 -  Healthcare reform groups urge Congress to revive public option
 01/26 -  Hank Dunn named new A-B Tech president
 01/26 -  AT&T taking aim at push for Internet freedom
 01/25 -  Obama calls for three-year spending freeze on many domestic programs
 01/25 -  Gov. Ed Rendell to Dems: Call the GOP bluff, 'make them filibuster'
 01/25 -  Roberts Court makes corporations supreme
 01/25 -  Obama to propose aid to middle-class families
 01/25 -  Can Obama move from populist rhetoric to real populist action?
 01/24 -  The three Facebook settings every user should check now
 01/24 -  Smart grid, smart meters = lower energy costs in NC
 01/24 -  New rock slide hits I-40
 01/24 -  Biden says US will appeal Blackwater case dismissal
 01/23 -  Bill Moyers: Why does Haiti suffer so?
 01/23 -  This is no time to mourn; it's time to organize
 01/22 -  NC lands $28 million stimulus award to expand broadband fiber backbone statewide
 01/22 -  Handmade in America rocked by ED's abrupt departure
 01/22 -  Roberts Court to voters: 'we should trust corporations more than our elected officials'
 01/21 -  Keith Olbermann on Supreme Court decision: "Be prepared"
 01/21 -  Air America to cease broadcast operations
 01/21 -  MAIN's statement on Supreme Court ruling
 01/21 -  How big business and its allies won the corporate 'free speech' battle
 01/21 -  Nader calls for constitutional amendment to reverse 'corporate personhood'
 01/21 -  Roberts Court's 5-4 decision on corporate speech called 'electoral catastrophe'
 01/21 -  Recycling Wal-Marts
 01/21 -  In landmark ruling, Supreme Court expands corporate speech rights
 01/20 -  Did Dems' corporate-friendly healthcare reform enable GOP to exploit populist anger?
 01/20 -  'Hardball' and our dumbed-down, cable-driven politics
 01/19 -  GOP wins Massachusetts senate seat
 01/19 -  Brown supporters turn ugly to suppress Massachusetts vote
 01/19 -  News flash: GOP's real leader is Roger Ailes
 01/18 -  Online activism gets tactical with new documentary
 01/18 -  Democrats mull health bill options if Mass. seat goes GOP
 01/18 -  Wall Street weighs challenge to Obama's tax proposal
 01/17 -  Steele and Palin ride Tea Partiers to the bank
 01/16 -  Naomi Klein: 'You say you want a revolution?'
 01/16 -  FDA to study health risks of BPA in plastic cups, bottles
 01/16 -  NC prepares for rising seas
 01/15 -  Credit card companies under fire for taking big cuts of Haiti donations
 01/15 -  When facts aren't what they used to be
 01/14 -  Declaring "We want our money back," Obama proposes tax on 50 largest Wall Street firms
 01/14 -  Belatedly, Google takes stand against Chinese censorship
 01/12 -  Major earthquake rocks Haiti; tsunami watch issued
 01/12 -  Tell PBS: Don't abandon hard-hitting journalism
 01/12 -  Watching TV shortens life span, study finds
 01/11 -  Death penalty costs NC taxpayers $11 million a year
 01/11 -  Obama weighs tax on Wall Street banks
 01/11 -  Community-supported farms in NC listed online
 01/11 -  Nichols & McChesney: How to save journalism
 01/09 -  Tutors wanted for conservative legislators
 01/08 -  Is Wall Street off the hook?
 01/08 -  Up in Smoke: Give movies pushing cigarettes an R rating
 01/08 -  New EPA smog limits will force change in NC
 01/07 -  Ten New Year’s resolutions for North Carolina’s progressive community
 01/05 -  Scheme to loot Social Security linked to Washington Post
 01/05 -  Culprit in Wi-Fi failures: chicken wire
 01/04 -  In rural Alaska, broadband, yes; running water, no
 01/03 -  Surviving on nothing but food stamps
 01/01 -  Nebraska politics loom over health care bill