Ending the war, seceding from the county
Iraqwar
Posted inNews & Opinion
Reader feedback – 12-06-06
The mail RACISM?OR CRIME? In “Bridging the Racial Divide,” City Councilman Dana Miller speculates that the reason businesses are reluctant to set up shop in the 19th Ward is racism. Could be. Or — who knows? — maybe it’s the random crackle of gunfire in the streets; deadly drive-bys; street-corner muggings, sometimes in broad daylight; […]
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Reader feedback – 10-18-06
US soldier deaths mount; local Republicans flex
their muscle
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Metro ink – 09.27.06
SATURDAY MORNING SALSA For some, Latin music’s polyrhythmic frenzy and joy might be a bit much so early in the morning. Yet for the past three years, Javier Rivera’s “Esencia Latina” has kicked off each morning on Jazz 90.1 WGMC — at 6 a.m. “It’s been fun,” Rivera says rapid-fire through an ever-present smile. He […]
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‘We have to get involved’
March marks the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, a war that bears troubling similarities to the Vietnam War. In the buildup to the war, peace activists all over the world tried to persuade the Bush administration not to attack Iraq. Rochester’s Doug Noble was one of them. Now, Noble is helping coordinate […]
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Reader feedback – 2.22.06
Ken Mehlman the chairman of the Republican National Committee unleashed
Posted inNews & Opinion
Reader feedback 7.28.04
Helping Sudan,
debating Iraq
action, strengthening HighFalls
