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Call For A Jobs Bill

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BY SHARON MARTIN Disappointment is too weak a word for how I feel about the debt deal. Legislators who appear to have no understanding of...

When A City Goes Bankrupt

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BY FROMA HARROP CENTRAL FALLS, RI – The stock market plunged over 500 points last Thursday, but no one seemed very perturbed about it in this tiny factory town. Three days before, Central Falls had filed for a Chapter 9 bankruptcy. These working-class folk see bottoms fall out on a regular basis. For people used […]

Fukushima Radiation 1,000 Times H-Bomb Peak

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BY BOB NICHOLS Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the airborne radiation in...

Is There A Ceiling Cap On Stupid?

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BY KAREN WEBB First, they do not want anyone – even, some believe, 12-year-old victims of incest or rape – to be able to choose...

Heroes

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I had dinner last week with a friend whose name, for reasons that will be obvious, I can’t say. I can’t say exactly where he works or what he does. When I ask his wife about him, she usually tells me that he is on his way from a place he can’t […]