Monthly Archive: May 2001

Download Audio   BUSH’S TAX CUT AND THE WEALTHY Talks shows are abuzz nationwide with commentators and callers discussing how Americans will be able to spend their tax refunds from the Bush administration’s tax...

Download Audio   BUSH TALKS ENERGY IN CALIFORNIA California Governor Gray Davis will get his twenty minutes with President Bush today. They’re scheduled for an afternoon meeting in Los Angeles where it is expected...

Download Audio Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords switches from Republican to Democrat After careful deliberation on what easily qualifies as the most important decision of his political career, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords today followed his...

Download Audio U.S. Republican senator considers defecting to Democrats Long time maverick Republican James Jeffords of Vermont has the White House holding its breath for another day as he contemplates defecting from the GOP....

Download Audio   PALESTINIANS REACT TO MITCHELL FRAMEWORK FOR MID-EAST PEACE Former Senator George Mitchell’s plan to halt the violence in the middle east and pave the way for peace has been fully embraced...

Download Audio U.S. Secretary of State to release statement on violence in the Middle East Intensifying violence in the Middle East is prompting a more visible response on the part of the Bush administration...

Download Audio   FIRING UP THE OLD NUCLEAR REACTOR Some public utilities in the Pacific northwest seem skeptical about President Bush’s plan to cure the energy crisis plaguing the West. The President’s proposal calls...

Download Audio   NO ALOHA FOR THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK In a precedent-setting anti-globalization protest, 1,000 peaceful marchers drummed, danced, and shouted in jubilee against the meeting of the Asian Development Bank, or ADB,...

Download Audio   INDIGENOUS RIGHTS BILL DISAPPOINTS ZAPATISTAS In Mexico City this week, a watered down version of the Indigenous Rights and Culture Initiative passed both houses of Congress. The so called “light” legislation,...