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Austin City Council Considers Action on Plastic Grocery Bags


The Austin City Council will consider a resolution this week that could lead to new strategies for reducing waste from plastic bags   read more
Location: Austin, Texas

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Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Be Costly - Over $2000 if You Break One!


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   read more

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Wal-Mart Issues Threat to Austin Neighborhood to Build Big Store Unless They Backdown


On Friday, Wal-Mart sent the City a letter offering a small and final reduction in the size of its planned Northcross Supercenter.   read more
Location: Austin, Texas

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America is Importing Tons of Food from Other Countries without FDA Inspection


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   read more
Location: USA

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Gonzales' Harvard Law Class Publishes Chastising Open Letter in Washington Post


An open letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared in Tuesday's Washington Post from his entire class at Harvard (1982). It chastises his   read more
Location: USA

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Two Races, Two Systems of Justice in Louisiana


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.   read more

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After Reporting in Iraq, America Feels Like a Bizarre Disneyland


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.   read more

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In Keeping Down American Workers, Corporate Crime Pays


Crime may not pay for ordinary criminals, but companies avoid paying millions in wages and benefits by committing crimes against their workers.   read more

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ABC on Bibletown, USA: 'Where church and state are one'


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   read more

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Five Ways Bush's Era of Repression Has Stolen Your Liberties Since 9-11


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   read more

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