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What's Happening Today - 21 August 2008
A Look Ahead
8/22 - 8th Annual Southern Energy & Environment Expo
8/23 - The 2008 Relay for Clean Air
8/24 - Parkside Questions: URTV panel discussion.
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8/21 - NEW City of Reno to sue Charter over public access TV channels
8/21 - NEW Door to NC community colleges shuts on undocumented
8/21 - NEW Neocons seek third term in McCain campaign
8/21 - NEW McCrory, Perdue differ . . . only in degrees
8/21 - NEW A dispiriting debate about North Carolina's future
8/20 - NEW White House missing hundreds of days of email
8/20 - NEW Elderly Chinese women request protest permit, now face 're-education'
8/20 - NEW Watchdogs make it harder for politicians to stretch the truth
8/20 - NEW Gorbachev: Russia didn't start this war
8/20 - NEW McCain's record: He's no friend of Internet Freedom
8/20 - NEW Key US strategy in Iraq in danger of collapse
8/20 - FCC urged to use vacant TV channels for high-speed Internet
8/19 - Taking the US to war is not the president's call
8/19 - Big Oil puts big money into lobbying
8/19 - Obama sharpens message in Raleigh
8/19 - Corporations use $20 billion tax loophole
8/19 - DOJ pushes to keep Bush aides from testifying
8/19 - NC nurses ignored mental patient as he died
8/19 - Swift Boat economics
8/19 - Court: Doctors can't use bias to deny treatment to gays
8/18 - The right's plot: Take power, loot the state, enrich allies, cripple liberal options
8/18 - Immigration raids net US citizens
8/18 - Lobbying loopholes enable lavish convention parties
8/18 - Guns in national parks?
8/18 - MAIN joins Google's 'Free the Airwaves' campaign
8/18 - Pull the plug on Duke Energy plan
8/18 - Some fear seeking health care amid immigration hysteria
8/17 - MAIN featured in national magazine
8/17 - DOT to hold I-26 Connector hearing Sept. 16
8/17 - Fact-checking the Swiftboaters
8/17 - On the same stage, Obama and McCain mix religion, politics
8/17 - A push to ban psychologists' role in torture
8/17 - Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?
8/17 - Outsiders spending big on NC races
8/15 - Journalists must speak up!
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