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'Racism' Seen in Liberals' Opposition to Mexican Truckers

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:10:02 -0700

NewStandard - By Michelle Chen - Mar. 28 (News Report) - Labor and public-interest groups are arguing that permitting Mexican truckers to drive US roads under NAFTA raises safety concerns. But the facts suggest otherwise, and some activists see a deeper problem.

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Group Demands Information on 'Disappeared' Detainees

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:11:20 -0800

NewStandard - By Shreema Mehta - Mar. 01 (News Report) - A human rights group is calling for the Bush administration to reveal the whereabouts of all suspects once detained by the CIA in secret prisons scattered across the globe.

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Medicare Drug 'Reform' Bill a 'Hollow Victory' for Democrats

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:04:13 -0800

NewStandard - By Michelle Chen - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Interested parties on two sides of the Medicare prescription-drug debate say last week's effort to give the government power to negotiate prices was a big deal, but experts say it is unlikely to have any real impact.

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Critics Say Democratic Lawmakers Cater to White Agenda

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:38:53 -0800

NewStandard - By Michelle Chen - Jan. 09 (News Report) - Progressives say the new Democratic legislature is already disproving the common perception that their party is particularly friendly to people of color.

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Groups Clash over Ariz. Minimum-Wage Disability Exemption

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:13:59 -0800

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Some Arizonians want their state's hard-won minimum-wage hike to apply only to "able-bodied" employees, leaving a loophole for paying disabled workers less.

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Critics, Officials Tell Tenn. Valley Authority to Clean Up

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:18:17 -0800

NewStandard - Jan. 02 (News Report) - Activists and North Carolina's attorney general say the massive New Deal energy project is a major source of pollution and health problems in the region its creators intended to help.

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USDA Stocks Organics Board with Business Reps

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:09:01 -0800

NewStandard - By Megan Tady - Dec. 20 (News Report) - Food-safety activists are protesting the government's attempt to stack an organic-food advisory board with representatives of corporate agribusiness and food commerce. Earlier this month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) tapped individuals who represent Campbell Soup Company, General Mills, Phillips Mushroom Farms, and Stahlbush Island Farms to join the fifteen-member panel.

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DuPont Still Hiding Teflon Hazard Study

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:59:57 -0800

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Nearly two months after DuPont claimed to have evidence that a chemical it uses in the Teflon-manufacturing process is safe for workers, the chemical giant still refuses to release its full findings to the public. Now unions have joined in pressuring DuPont to release the study and other information on the health effects of PFOA, a chemical used to make Teflon.

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Offshore Drilling Back on Washington Agenda

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:43:49 -0800

NewStandard - By Michelle Chen - Dec. 05 (News Report) - Lawmakers and the Bush administration are renewing controversial efforts to blast open new channels for offshore oil and gas drilling in Florida and Alaska. The US House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill that would open up 8.3 million acres off Florida's Gulf coast for drilling. The House Republican leadership approved the initiative for a vote as it prepares to yield to an incoming Democratic majority.

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Biotech Firm, Govt. Hid Rice Contamination from Public

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:22:00 -0700

NewStandard - By Megan Tady - Aug. 24 (News Report) - Last week, the US Department of Agriculture announced that US commercial long-grain rice supplies are contaminated with "trace amounts" of genetically engineered rice unapproved for human consumption. The contamination was only disclosed [long after the discovery, and 18 days] after Bayer notified the USDA itself.

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Grassroots Gears Up as FCC Revisits Ownership Rules

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:09:40 -0700

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Jul. 21 (News Report) - The fight to protect locally owned and diverse media outlets is gearing up again after the Federal Communications Commission announced it would be opening up a public comment period on newly proposed media-ownership rules. But opponents of media consolidation, including two FCC commissioners, are concerned that the proceedings will be inadequate and public input will be ignored, as was the case during the last review of ownership rules in 2003.

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Specter Caves to White House Demands on NSA Bill

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:43:40 -0700

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Jul. 19 (News Report) - Constitutional law experts and civil rights advocates are slamming the latest legislative proposal from US Senator Arlen Specter to address the government’s warrantless wiretapping program. After months of negotiations with other lawmakers and Bush administration officials, Specter announced a "compromise" agreement last Thursday. But critics... say the proposal is a "sham" that eliminates congressional oversight over the executive branch and any meaningful legal review of the program.

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School Officials Promote Fast Track to Incarceration

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:54:17 -0700

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Jul. 14 (News Report) - From Florida to California to Connecticut, students and parents across the country are contending with an education system that is increasingly implementing harsher methods of disciplining students, and placing thousands of armed officers on school campuses. Youth and civil-rights advocates call the growing presence of law enforcement in schools, along with increasingly punitive punishment for misbehavior, the "school-to-prison pipeline."

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Youth Rights Activists Defend MySpace Access

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:34:29 -0700

NewStandard - By Kari Lydersen - Jun. 29 (News Report) - While politicians and news media hype the alleged dangers to teens using social-networking websites, others say the threats are exaggerated and kids should be able to communicate freely online. When it comes to making rules about their Internet usage, young people say lawmakers – like parents – just don’t understand. While politicians and news media hype the alleged dangers to teens using social-networking websites, others say the threats are exaggerated and kids should be able to communicate freely online.

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