SBC strike tests unity as labor and management clash
The Dallas Morning News reports a four day strike by SBC workers with bargaining at four regional tables in Austin Chicago Pleasanton and New Haven. The CWA plans a short strike ending shortly after midnight Monday to limit impact.
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Larry Irving
Clinton
Dallas
Southwest Region
Edward E. Whitacre Jr
Linda Dilworth
Off-reservation Indian casinos draw growing attention
The Tule River tribe eyes a Highway 190 site for a larger casino, part of a broader push by tribes to move gambling off reservations. Federal wary, locals wary as tribes seek access to bigger markets. nationwide tribal casinos generated about 15.9 billion in 2003 with Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods as giants.
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Tule River
California
Tom Rodgers
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Tule
Robert Inabhinette
Congress
Nevada
Mohegan Sun
Foxwoods
Connecticut
Las Vegas
Sam Cohen
Springville
Calif
Chamber of Commerce
Jail inmates charged sixty dollars a day in Oregon county
Klamath Falls sheriff Tim Evinger moves to bill inmates sixty dollars per day to cover jail costs after eliminating condiments and beverages saving about thirty thousand dollars yearly. The idea, dating to the 1980s in Alabama, has spread nationally though critics call it impractical and unethical.
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Ore
Tim Evinger
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United States
Fed witness charged in Stewart trial
Federal authorities charged a government witness from the Martha Stewart case with lying on the stand, saying the false testimony does not void Stewart’s conviction or Bacanovic’s. Larry Stewart, a Secret Service ink expert, allegedly made eight false statements including an August 2002 worksheet examination and an ink variation on a “(at)60” notation.
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Martha Stewart
Larry F. Stewart
National Ink
Secret Service
Peter Bacanovic
Larry Stewart
Stewart
Tobacco industry ordered to fund smoking cessation programs
A Louisiana jury awarded about 590 million to fund nicotine patches hot lines and advertising to help smokers quit. Experts call it a potential precedent for industry responsibility and say appeals could delay actual funding while setting up program operations. Lawyers say the verdict marks a landmark shift toward cessation support over pure damages.
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Louisiana
Edward L. Senda
Tobacco Products Liability Project
Northeastern University School of Law
Boston
Big Tobacco
Joseph Bruno
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