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EM’s School Closing Game: Tragedy for Students, Community
The School board is in the dark; parents are angry, the community is under threat and students, many of them special needs, face loss. This is the newest round …
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Six Months After Sandy, A Financial Disaster For Homeowners
Problems with insurance claims and loans have turned superstorm Sandy from a natural disaster to a financial one.
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Art Pope Groups Push Extreme ALEC Tax Agenda in North Carolina
New ALEC backed legislations would radically alter how corporations and people pay taxes in the state.
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First “Ag-Gag” Prosecution: This Utah Woman Filmed a Slaughterhouse from the Public Street
The first law suit under the new ALEC backed Ag-Gag bill is underway in Utah, targeting a woman who filmed abuses at a near by slaughterhouse.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Congress Pushes for Unnecessary Tanks Despite Sequester Cuts, and More
In today's On the News segment: The wealth gap has become increasingly racialized, and more.
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Guatemala Genocide Trial Must Resume, Say Human Rights Leaders
If witnesses to the 1980s massacres are forced to re-testify, they'll face risk and strain beyond what they've already overcome in order to speak out.
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Bayer and Syngenta Lobby Furiously Against EU Efforts to Limit Pesticides and Save Bees
New report that links pesticides and declining bee populations is the motivation behind this European campaign.
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Life Under Lockdown at America’s Hunger-Striking Prison Camps
America's offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare.
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Sandra Day O’Connor Expresses Regret About Court’s Role in 2000 Election
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reflects on the controversial decision that made the 2000 election.
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Obama to Name Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as Transportation Chief
In what is seen as an effort to boost minorities in high level positions, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx has been tapped for a cabinet position in Obama's administration.