The Austin City Council will consider a resolution this week that could lead to new strategies for reducing waste from plastic bags
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Austin, Texas
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then yo
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On Friday, Wal-Mart sent the City a letter offering a small and final reduction in the size of its planned Northcross Supercenter.
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Austin, Texas
People are upset. Their little Fidos and Fluffies are being poisoned by a chemical additive in pet food imported from China. And now it's been found
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USA
An open letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared in Tuesday's Washington Post from his entire class at Harvard (1982). It chastises his
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USA
Last week in Detroit, the NAACP held a mock funeral for the N-word. But a chilling case in Louisiana shows us how far we have to go to bury racism.
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After years of witnessing the apocalyptic violence in Iraq first hand, life in America is "nothing short of a schizophrenic experience" for veteran reporter Dahr Jamail.
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Crime may not pay for ordinary criminals, but companies avoid paying millions in wages and benefits by committing crimes against their workers.
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Built from scratch to fulfill the lifelong dream of Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, the town of Ave Maria, Florida is being called a "refuge for Christian values in the secular age." Ave Maria is centered around a 1,100-seat Roman Catholic
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In his new book, Matt Rothschild examines how the Bush White House constructed the edifice of repression to brazenly access our private data and shre
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