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18 February 2002
Freep Heroes - Winter 2002
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Free Press Staff
FREEP HEROES

Cincinnati City Council

Seven members of the Cincinnati City Council voted in December for a death penalty moratorium resolution. While symbolic, the resolution in nonetheless significant...
15 February 2002
When Nothing But a Full-Page Ad Will Do
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Norman Solomon
When a large company is getting clobbered by news stories and pundits, the damage-control response often includes packing full-page newspaper ads with solemn reassurances. That's what the Arthur Andersen accounting firm has been doing...
14 February 2002
Contemporary campaign finance reform
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- As I write, the most riveting television drama imaginable is being played out on C-Span, of all places.

The U.S. House of Representatives is debating campaign finance reform, and it's one of...
12 February 2002
Taxes, Inequality and Corporations
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Enron, the biggest financial failure in U.S. history, is bigger than Enron. It's also bigger than Global Crossing and all the earn ings restatements headed our way, too.

"Systemic," "structural...
07 February 2002
Problems and Political Donations
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Molly Ivins
LANSING, Mich -- Here in the home of the Lansing Lugnuts, the local baseball team named after the town's premier product, is also to be found a unique work of art -- a statue of a lugnut on a tall column. Just further evidence of...
06 February 2002
Internal Contradictions
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Excuse me, but the Bush administration's "internal contradictions," as the communists used to say, are showing like a dirty slip. On Jan. 25, the administration ordered federal agencies to review their contracts with...

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