[act-ma] Boston Globe Employees Fight for Their Jobs and More in Open Media Boston (week of 4/24/09)

[Jason Pramas]

[please forward widely]

Hi folks! Check out this week's top stories from Open Media Boston:

News: Boston Globe Unionized Employees Rally to Save Their Publication, Jobs
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/657

Editorial: Boston Globe Workers Deserve Sympathy and Support, Not 
Derision from Local Media
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/659

Opinion: Public Health Insurance Competition – Cost Control or Political 
Bailout?
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/656

Opinion: "Americans Who Tell The Truth" Event Features Historian and 
Icon Howard Zinn
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/654

Opinion: Somerville Teachers Association Endorses H.R. 676, the National 
"Medicare for All" Bill
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/651

Tech: Skype for iPhone, Now with 90% Less Suck!
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/658

More coming in our Opinion section this weekend ...


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