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Nearly 70 percent of cleanup workers

Dan — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:07:24 +0000

at the World Trade Center site “suffered new or worsened respiratory symptoms” after their time at the cleanup.

Stevens confirms he placed secret hold on bill.

Dan — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:09:52 +0000

A spokesman for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) has “confirmed his boss was the man behind the secret hold on the Coburn/Obama spending database bill,” according to TPMmuckraker. Background on the story HERE.

Affordable housing remains sparse in New Orleans.

Dan — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:23:42 +0000

Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, a new report from demographer Greg Rigamer finds that “average rents have risen about 40 percent, and the average selling price of homes in areas not affected by flooding rose about 25 percent.”

Nine African-American students

Dan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:18:43 +0000

in Louisiana were ordered to move “to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.” The NAACP is considering filing charges.

36 percent:

Dan — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:42:25 +0000

Bush’s current approval rating — unchanged from July — according to a new American Research Group poll. Just 32 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the economy.

IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) unveils renewable energy plan.

Dan — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:54:06 +0000

The $1.2 billion proposal would invest $225 million over the next five to ten years to build up to 20 ethanol plants, “five soy biodiesel plants and four facilities that would make ethanol from plant waste like corn husks.” In addition, biofuels would be used to met half the state’s demand for gasoline by 2017.

Pharmacists in New York are refusing

Dan — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:36:26 +0000

to refill Plan B prescriptions. A CVS supervisor notes that the “pharmacists apparently had no religious or moral objections to E.C. [emergency contraception] the first time around; it was that second time that proved the women’s behavior was ‘irresponsible.’” The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint.

Vote suppression sweeps the nation.

Dan — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:57:46 +0000

Salon profiles methods being used in six states, including “new photo I.D. laws, the criminalizing of voter registration drives, and database purges that have disqualified up to 40 percent of newly registered voters from voting.”