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Domestic Violence Law Repealed in Topeka, Kansas, to Save Money
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Playing Washington’s Inside Game
And then there were 12. When the 435 House members and 100 senators failed in July to agree on a long-term deficit reduction plan, congressional leaders …
EXPOSED: Koch Industries and Cancer Risk
Is a Koch Industries factory getting away with murder? While the brothers wage war against safety precautions, every day their factory is dumping millions of gallons of wastewater into …
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US Arms Bahrain While Decrying Russian Weapons in Syria
United Nations - Peeved at Russia's Security Council veto derailing a Western- sponsored resolution against Syria last week, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice implicitly accused the Russians of protecting the …
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Countrywide Loan Underwriter Found Herself in “Dangerous Territory“
After she lost her job in the fall of 2007, Cassandra Daniels had a word with a trio of her managers. As she recalls it, she told them she …
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Protests Grow in “Europe’s Next Greece”
“What are you protesting against?” asks a man walking home from the pub last night. “Is this about the IMF?” When I answer that yes, this is …
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Netanyahu Announces Deal to Free Shalit
Israel and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement on a proposal brokered by Egypt to exchange Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held captive for more than five years, …
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Coal Ash Regulation Would Create 28,000 Jobs
Does environmental protection destroy jobs? That may be the strongest argument that the pro-pollution lobby has going for it. No one wants to endorse dirty air and water in …
New Free Trade Agreements Threaten to Kill Jobs and Labor Rights
Displaced Colombian farmers on the road looking for work in the sugar cane fields of Cauca. A free trade agreement will increase the number of farmers displaced by grain …
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Obama Campaign Says His Jobs Message Is Reaching Populace
Washington - President Barack Obama hasn’t managed to nudge Congress toward approving his proposed jobs bill or the tax increases to pay for it, but his campaign says he’s …