Archive for the ‘two+americas’ Category
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Today as millions of Americans sit down to their turkey dinners with all the trimmings, the safety net of hundreds of food banks and pantries that put food on the table of the nation's poor is creaking and torn as a result of sharply reduced donations. From New England to ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
A Florida death row inmate has been granted a stay of execution by the US Supreme Court in an action that offers further evidence that a de facto national moratorium on executions is in place. The stay, announced Thursday afternoon, came four hours before Mark Dean Schwab was scheduled to ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Today, Krugman, who has been extremely grumpy for much of this decade, is guardedly optimistic that the shifting poll numbers and sour national mood could translate into a Democratic resurgence. The issue to watch? Health care.Read the full story
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Of course, we can pay for the Iraq war without a tax increase. The question is, can we pay for it and be making the investments in infrastructure, science and education needed to propel our country into the 21st century? Visit Singapore, Japan, Korea, China or parts of Europe today ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The 14-year-old freshman suspect was suspended earlier this week after getting into a fight with another student, several sources reported. The school's security guard was on vacation, WKYC reported, and two other full time security guards had been laid off in recent years.Read the full story
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Taco Bell is something else" — is an attempt to distance itself from any comparison to Mexico's beloved taquerias, which sell traditional corn tortillas stuffed with an endless variety of fillings, from spicy beef to corn fungus and cow eyes.Read the full story
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Klein shows how the crony capitalists running the Bush administration saw post-invasion Iraq as the perfect proving ground for all their pet free-market policies. The fantasy was that a privitazied and corporatized Iraq would become a free-market utopia that would spread the gospel of the market throughout the Middle East. ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Healthy San Francisco provides uninsured San Franciscans with access to 14 city health clinics and 8 affiliated community clinics, with an emphasis on prevention and managing chronic disease. It is, however, not the same as insurance because it does not cover residents once they leave the city.Read the full story
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
MICHAEL GATES GILL, who once made about $160,000 a year as an advertising executive and who now earns around $10.50 an hour making coffee at Starbucks, has written a book called “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else,” Read the full story
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Jeanne is a friend of mine: Jeanne Sather, 52, posted an ad last week on her blog, the Assertive Cancer Patient, looking for a marriage-minded Canadian man. "If I moved 150 miles north I wouldn't have to worry about medical care," said Sather, who has been battling breast cancer for ...
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