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In the world of political punk, Anti-Flag is almost alone in raising the banner of dissent these days. After the terrorist attacks last September galvanized a new patriotism in America, many rock musicians and fans alike have taken a closer look at their rebelliousness. Justin Hopper of Pittsburgh City Paper goes on the road with Anti-Flag, looking at left-wing rhetoric from the last unapologetic punk dissidents left standing.

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Leaders of the Vermont Senate are looking into charges by Seven Days columnist Peter Freyne that the Legislature pulled funding from Vermont Public Television in order to get him off the air, the Rutland Herald reports. Freyne's "Inside Track" column blisters legislators with great regularity. He has also been a regular guest and moderator on VPT's "This Week in Vermont" for some 20 years.

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After a mini-firestorm of protest over the judging in Willamette Week's inaugural writing contest, Arts and Culture Editor Caryn B. Brooks explains it all. A mea culpa for not having told the three judges that their picks were merely advisory, not binding. And she says putting "Floozy" third rather than first was because the author hadn't been particularly inventive in plot and characterization launched from the required first line, "At 4 a.m. she found herself under the Broadway Bridge."

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