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Monthly Archives: March, 2009

Unemployment hits harder among Blacks

The ax fell without sound or shadow: Tatiana Gallego was suddenly called into human resources and laid off from her job as an admissions counselor for a fashion college.

Groups find common ground on health care overhaul

WASHINGTON — Groups representing consumers, businesses, insurers, doctors, nurses and hospitals said Friday they have reached agreement on how they would like to see the nation’s health care system overhauled.

Experimental Ebola vaccine used on human

BERLIN — It was a nightmare scenario worthy of a sci-fi movie script: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice.

Gambling governors

Fortunate favors the bold, especially when you’re placing bets in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes.

Economic ignorance 101

In the discussions about what to do to fix up the economic mess left by George Bush, I have come to understand why it happened when I hear the unimagineably ignorant proposals put forth by many Republicans.

Leveling the playing fields in the worst of times

Last week, as a diverse group of community leaders and Olympic planners gathered to sign a document supporting minority participation and affordable housing set-asides as it would relate to a 2016 Games, the words of novelist Charles Dickens came to mind:

Olympics a win-win for the city

If Chicago is to win the hosting rights for the 2016 Olympic Games, it will have to be a civic effort, for a civic victory.

ACLU: ‘Endemic abuse’ of inmates in St. Louis jails

ST. LOUIS – With her long history of chronic asthma and sickle cell anemia, a short stay at the St. Louis Justice Center for failing to appear in court for two traffic violations cost LaVonda Kimble her life.

Historic Katrina victims’ trial set for April 20

NEW ORLEANS–A federal judge has cleared the way for a trial of the largest-ever litigation involving the U.S. government by denying the Justice Department’s last-ditch attempt to dismiss a damages lawsuit brought by victims of Hurricane Katrin

NY senator seeks ban on baby bottle chemical

GARDEN CITY, N.Y.–Sen. Charles Schumer has proposed a nationwide ban on a chemical used to make baby bottles and other products for toddlers.

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