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The New York Daily News has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial series on the medical fall-out from the 9/11 attacks. But in some circles, the Pulitzer award was as noteworthy for whom it did not mention: Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. Gonzalez was the first reporter to question government officials' insistence that the air around Ground Zero was safe and wrote a series of groundbreaking exposes on the issue....

The City of Fresno has a court order preventing them from taking and destroying homeless peoples property. On April 5, 2007 the city implemented a new policy to take and store homeless peoples property during their sweeps. The policy is that they (the City of Fresno) will take and store, for 90 days, homeless peoples property. Homeless people can come to the city yard on G street and reclaim their property. . . except that the property was left out in the rain and is no longer usable....

A recent report details the food industry’s policy of targeting children in television advertising to promote snack foods and sugar-laden cereals. The study, released on March 28, was conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a privately operated foundation focusing on health issues. The report was spurred by growing concern over the number of obese children in the US: about one in three, or 25 million....

Sunday morning’s crash of a tanker-trailer carrying thousands of gallons of gasoline that resulted in the collapse of a McArthur Maze overpass to the Bay Bridge should encourage Bay Area transit and emergency officials to seriously consider the purchase vehicular ferries, particularly for the transport of hazardous materials during non- commute hours....

encampment now at Redwood Park in Arcata...

An escalation in violence in Somalia has left many too frightened to seek treatment for cholera, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has warned....

This month, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) will co-sponsor the largest annual HIV/AIDS constituent-based federal advocacy and education event in the US...

Chris Howard, author of The Welfare State Nobody Knows, talks to George Kenney at Electric Politics....

More people have been displaced in Somalia in the past two months than anywhere else in the world, the United Nations has said....

This is just a statement about the upcoming farm bill. It has been widely ignored in the past, but it's really significant. It sets our standards and rule for the American Food Service. It has led to rididculous subsidies for soy, wheat, rice, and corn which has led to cheap processed unhealthy food being more affordable than fruits and vegetables. It is also destroys the world econoomy....