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Wallace Kimball, a retired CWA representative in District 9, died March 1 of cancer at a hospital near his home in Roseville, Calif. He was 73.

"He loved his union and his travels and his friends. He was a good man," said his wife, Edith.

Speaking at the Alliance for Pubic Technology forum in Washington, D.C., CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen called for an end to the digital divide between rich and poor by changing public policy to encourage telecom, cable and wireless companies to invest in the rapid deployment of broadband,

AFA-CWA has been fighting back against United Airline's effort to renege on its pledge to protect the retiree health benefits of 2,500 flight attendants who retired before July 1, 2003.

The CWA Minority Caucus has boosted its annual $1,000 scholarship offering to six scholarships as a result of a grant from UBS Financial Services.

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left searing scars on the memory of every American. Subsequent attacks deploying anthrax and ricin through the mail and news of terrorist bombings abroad have made people feel even more vulnerable.