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What's Happening Today - 4 December 2008
A Look Ahead
12/05 - Asheville Green Drinks: Speaker on Fair Trade
12/06 - One World Healing Arts Institute Holiday Bazaar and Open House
12/09 - Internet Security Class
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12/04 - NEW Bank of America to stop financing mountaintop removal mining
12/04 - NEW America's 'other' auto industry: lower wages, benefits, and no sympathy for Detroit
12/04 - NEW Judge: Duke must comply with Clean Air Act at Cliffside; construction goes on
12/04 - NEW Let's stop wasting precious water cooling inefficient power plants
12/04 - NEW Renewable energy a core solution to many problems
12/03 - Another debate about God roils Capitol's new visitor center
12/03 - EPA to gut mountaintop removal rule that protects streams
12/03 - Shuler's potential 2010 opponents?
12/02 - audio Will Obama push for universal broadband?
12/02 - Is wealth relative to desire?
12/02 - ABC News lets Bush maintain lie about Iraq WMD inspections
12/02 - High-tech firms celebrate 'white spaces' future
12/01 - Change that immigrants and labor can believe in
12/01 - Bush moves forward with 'secret' OSHA rule
12/01 - Even empty, FEMA trailers cost $28 million a year
12/01 - Global climate talks aim for trust
12/01 - Catholic leaders attack Disney for false spirituality
11/30 - video Moyers interviews Michael Pollan on US food policy
11/30 - When the downturn sailed into Savannah
11/30 - Obama to name national security team Monday
11/30 - UNC must avoid 'hate speech' slippery slope
11/30 - Raleigh considers bold vision to stop sprawl
11/29 - Look to the Internet to fight poverty
11/29 - A one-man military-industrial-media complex
11/29 - Key players in US economy have Carolina ties
11/29 - Citizen journalists offer glimpses of Mumbai attacks
11/28 - Climate change skeptics continue to muddy global warming debate
11/28 - Pakistan's spy chief to visit India
11/28 - Democrats brace for midnight rules from Bush
11/28 - Turf battle ends NC's chance to lead lawsuit against Freddie Mac
11/27 - Is Obama getting too close to Wall Street?
11/27 - Saving the economy . . . and the planet
11/26 - Krugman: What we should do
11/26 - Can government keep spending? Most economists say yes
11/26 - Joe Hackney asks Obama for state stimulus
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White Spaces News
•High-tech celebrates 'white spaces' future
•Owning your own fiber
•FCC releases 'white spaces' ruling (1 comment)
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CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News
•Delta lays out new frequent flier rules
•Operation Christmas Child processes 1 million boxes
•Center looking for help during holidays
•Toy run to be held Saturday
•Progress Energy, ERC laying new fiber-optic cable

mountainx.com
•Medford gets new attorney; question on pay delayed
•No bio-defense lab for N.C.; government recommends Kansas site
•Judge rules against Duke Energy’s Cliffside plant
•Asheville City Council
•47 hats in the ring

The Smoky Mountain News
•Unearthing clues
•Prime time pushes trend in crime forensics
•Schools struggle with state budget recall
•Haywood proud winner of 22 acres, but what now?
•Commissioners select Haywood’s top leader