The Same Sex Marriage Debate Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:35:00 -0400 California isn't really in play in this year's presidential race, but there's plenty of heat coming from a measure that would ban same sex marriage. Proposition 8 would overturn this year's state supreme court decision that cleared the way for same sex couples to wed. Now, there's a big money battle on California's airwaves for and against Prop 8. Wyo. Town Still Grappling With Shepard Murder Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:31:00 -0400 On Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a young gay college student, was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyo. Residents there are still dealing with the legacy of the crime. Growing Latino Population Redefines Small Town Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:52:00 -0400 Siler City, N.C., used to be the kind of town where almost everyone had roots going back a century or two. That's changed now that a chicken-processing plant has attracted a Latino workforce.
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Dana Goodyear: Campaign ’08 Abroad Dana Goodyear Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Fukui is a prefecture divided. On the one hand, it is home to Obama, a rustic fishing village on the Sea of Japan. (Obama means “little beach.”) On the other, its capital city--two hours from Obama on the commuter train--is a Republican stronghold: Fukui City, where Sarah Palin’s . . . The Editors: The better candidate for 2008. The Editors Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching--that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency . . . Steven Kurutz: Sarah Palin and the Washington tanning lobby. Steven Kurutz Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Of the many things revealed about the Alaska governor Sarah Palin since she became John McCain’s running mate last month, one of the most curious is the fact, reported two weeks ago, that she had a tanning bed installed in the state mansion in Juneau. Obama supporters seized on the . . .