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City buses rolled out of parking garages in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1 with a message for city leaders and residents -- "This bus isn't the only thing passing you by. Verizon is bringing high-speed Internet to the suburbs: Not to D.C." While Verizon has been advertising its high-speed FiOS network on D.C. airwaves, plans to actually install high-speed Internet in the city are far from the drawing board, and CWA and other groups are calling on city council members to push back.

The American flag has become a casualty of Verizon Business' war on workers' rights. Verizon Business technician and Air National Guardsman Terry Skiest has an American flag and a Massachusetts state flag that have flown in battle zones with him in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he proudly displayed them outside his work cubicle in Acton, Mass.

Verizon backed away from pushing legislation for full statewide deregulation of basic phone rates in Virginia after state regulators endorsed CWA's position that there is no real competition in rural areas of the state to justify deregulation.

Tune in to the PBS news program "Now" beginning the week of Feb. 11 and watch TNG-CWA President Linda Foley discuss organizing efforts among freelance editorial workers.

It's the first federal budget ever to top $3 trillion, and still the Bush administration manages to put the screws to workers, senior citizens, the sick, the poor and the rest of America's vulnerable citizens.