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Ohio lives up to billing as this year’s question mark in 2004 presidential election
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by John McCarthy on November 3.) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Questions over votes and ballots, long lines at the polls, and an invasion of lawyers: One state had it all in this year's presidential election. It wasn't Florida,...
Amtrak’s chief faces biggest challenge yet
(The following report by Gregory Richards appeared on the Florida Times-Union website on November 2.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- David Gunn has spent his 40-year career turning around troubled transit systems throughout North America, including those in New York, Toronto...
States are battling against Wal-Mart over health care
(The following article originally appeared in the New York Times on November 1, 2004 and was written by Reed Abelson.) NEW YORK -- In the national debate over what to do about the growing number of working people with little or no health insurance, no other company...
UFCW eyes Wal-Mart tire centers
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story on November 2.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Wal-Mart Stores workers at seven tire centers in British Columbia in Canada applied Monday to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union, expanding efforts by Canadian unions to...
Work in Progress
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on November 1.) CAMPING OUT WITH NFFE/IAM—A majority of the 250 Forest Service workers at the Stanislaus National Forest in Northern California voted to join the National Federation of Federal Employees, an affiliate of the...
Deputies to teach railroad awareness
(The following article by William Johnson was circulated by Louisiana Gannett News on November 2.) OPELOUSAS, La. -- With still two months to go, 2004 is on track to set a record for the number of fatal railroad accidents in St. Landry Parish. To fight this rising...
Big dollars at stake in revote over Florida bullet train
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Mike Branom on November 2.) ORLANDO, Fla. -- Opponents of a bullet train approved by the voters in 2000 spent millions trying to convince the same voters that their project is a boondoggle. Everyone will learn...
Genesee & Wyoming reports 33.2% increase in earnings
(Genesee & Wyoming issued the following news release on November 2.) GREENWICH, Conn. -- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. reported today that net income in the third quarter of 2004 increased 33.2% to $10.1 million, compared to net income of $7.6 million in the third quarter of...
W.Va. residents return after leak
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on October 29.) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Most of the 2,000 people forced to evacuate after a 22,000-gallon railroad tanker leaked chemicals into a creek and sewer system were permitted to return home Friday. The leak in...
Fatalities haunt Caltrain
(The following story by Ethan Fletcher appeared on the San Francisco Examiner website on November 1.) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- As any engineer will verify, the two train fatalities on Caltrain tracks last week -- both possible suicides -- were not at all uncommon....
