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Abraham Lincoln and the West

Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln: Few presidents have been so connected and so often compared. Obama served in the Illinois legislature, just as Lincoln did. Obama announced his candidacy from the steps of the old state Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where Lincoln delivered his famous “house divided” speech.  Like Lincoln, he rode a train to […]

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Woman on the water

To listen to the audio interview you need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed and Javascript enabled. Heather Wylie was a biologist working for the Army Corps of Engineers when she joined a group of people kayaking down the Los Angeles River – a “giant concrete trough” that runs more than 50 miles through […]

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Slideshow: The waiting game

When Los Amigos del Parque was founded seven years go, about 20 immigrants waited for work every day near the New Mexico Department of Labor in Santa Fe. Now the human rights outreach group counts 60 or so immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala daily. As the economy weakens and construction lags, these laborers find more […]

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Mayberry and Peyton Place

Given that the vast majority of Americans (almost four out of five) live in urban areas, we small town residents might well feel flattered by the attention we received during this presidential campaign. Not all the attention was complimentary, though. Democratic nominee Barack Obama observed that “You go into some of these small towns in […]

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