TOP STORIES
Wake-up Call: Can radiation from cell phones damage DNA in our brains? When a UW researcher found disturbing data, funding became tight
by Rob Harrill, reprinted with permission from Columns magazine
Welcome Seafair?: Military recruitment is at the heart of the Seattle summer festival
by Glen Milner
Mined Over Maury: A nice island is getting hauled away, bit by bit
by Hannah Lee
FREE THOUGHTS
How to Have Clean and Complete Voter Rolls
by Rob Richie and Steven Hill
MEDIA BEAT by Norman Solomon
From Watergate to Downing Street
READER MAIL
Police State at US/Canada Border; Everybody Lost in Last Years' Vote
NORTHWEST & BEYOND news shorts compiled by Sharlynn Cobaugh
Warm Winter Leaves Columbia Basin Dry; Oregonian's Stop-Loss Battle Lost; Summer Sun and Skin Cancer; CA Nurses Take On Schwarzenegger; Harvard Takes Action Against Genocide in Sudan
MONEY
Searching for Tax Fairness
Lack of regulation on capital-gains tax invites non-compliance
by Gerald E. Scorse
GOOD IDEAS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Consumers Overlook Opt-Out: contacts for stopping unwanted credit card solicitations
by Tim Covell
ENVIRONMENT
DOT Bans Stealth Radioactive Shipments
Recent ruling against secret shipments of uranium munitions by the Department of Defense
by Glen Milner
TRASH TALK by Dave and Lillian Brummet
Clean Vacationing: Garbage in its Place
Software Reduces Computer-related CO2 Emissions
press release from Userful
DUSEL Not Welcomed in Leavenworth
by Sharlynn Cobaugh
George W. Bush: EnvironWent
cartoon by George Jartos
WORKPLACE
Legislation Can Reduce Store Homicides
by Kenneth Wayne Yarbrough
Farmworkers Boycott Gallo Wines
photo and caption by David Bacon
HEALTH
Cellular Antennas
Facts about the technology and related policies
by Tamara Dyer
NATURE DOC by John F. Ruhland, ND
Cell Phone; Naturopathic IVs
CELL PHONES DAMAGE SPERM
by Doug Collins
Fluoride Damages Bones, Studies Show
from New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
LAW
Scores of Muslim Men Jailed Without Charge
from the ACLU
BOB'S RANDOM LEGAL WISDOM by Bob Anderton
It's OK to Help: The good samaritan rule
CONTACTS/ACTIVISM
NORTHWEST NEIGHBORS
contact list of subscribers who like to talk with you
DO SOMETHING! CALENDAR
Northwest activist events
POLITICS
Red Meat for the Red States: Democrats don't stand a chance unless they choose more meaningful issues
by Brian King
Mexicans Want Democracy, But More
by David Bacon
WAR & PEACE
Poems for Peace
compiled by Stan Penner
Great Seal of the United States: The Bush revisions
cartoon by Andrew Wahl
MISCELLANEOUS
Just because...
by Styx Mundstock
The Danger of Being Tongue-Tied
The US still lags in multilingualism
by Domenico Maceri
The Wanderings and Thoughts of Kip Kellogg
by Vincent Spada
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