AltWeeklies Wire
Congressional Inaction: Killing Billsnew
The Farm Bill, a five-year federal spending bill that allots money for nutrition and hunger-prevention programs, industrial agriculture, and smaller farming operations, was blocked last Friday, and remained in limbo as Congress went into Thanksgiving recess.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
11-21-2007 |
Policy Issues
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For the Kidsnew
Youth testify on OLCC's all-ages proposal.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
11-15-2007 |
Policy Issues
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San Fran Hosts a Halloween Suitable for the 'Burbsnew
The mayor's plan worked: two decades of fun in the Castro on Halloween died in 2007.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
11-07-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Waiting for the Docs Tort Reform Was Supposed to Delivernew
The campaign to pass Proposition 12 promised that tort reform would cause doctors to begin returning to Texas' sparsely populated regions -- that promise has now been tested for four years, and it has not proven to be true.
The Texas Observer |
Suzanne Batchelor |
10-22-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Will Louisville's Voters Take the Bait?new
The library tax haggle gets weird.
LEO Weekly |
Cary Stemle and Rick Redding |
10-22-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Overlooking Overlooknew
Complaint filed over interstate meeting.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
10-18-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Mass. Turnpike Toll Hike Will Do Little in the Long Runnew
The hike smacks of sticking a finger in the leak of a bulging dam.
Dig Boston |
Cara Boyles |
10-17-2007 |
Policy Issues
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The Perils of Privatizationnew
Ronald Reagan started dismantling government 25 years ago, but his privatization legacy is alive and growing -- even in San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
10-17-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Is Wisconsin's 'Welfare to Work' Program Working?new
Ten years later, Wisconsin Works still has many flaws.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
10-12-2007 |
Policy Issues
Secession!new
Georgia's top politicians don't see eye-to-eye with inside-the-Perimeter Atlantans and don't seem to much care about it, either. Maybe it's time for us to turn the tables; maybe it's time to declare our independence.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
10-11-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Government Secrecy is Fine with Maine's Attorney Generalnew
A man widely believed to be interested in becoming Maine's next governor, Democratic Attorney General Steven Rowe, is refusing to defend the state's Freedom of Access Act from a court ruling that would destroy the state's open-government law almost entirely.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
10-11-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Up in Smokenew
Minnesota's smoking ban is putting local hookah bars out of business.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
10-10-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Winconsin Power Plant Sold, State Loses Oversightnew
The approval of the sale of the nuclear power plant at Point Beach does more than just transfer the ownership of a huge asset from Wisconsin Electric Power Co. to FPL Energy. It also diminishes the role of state oversight in the operation of the nuclear facility.
Shepherd Express |
Lisa Kaiser |
09-28-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Federal Grants Go to Groups with Shaky Pastnew
When Atlanta's old Empowerment Zone finally imploded in late 2001, the end came amid a spectacular flurry of federal audits, indictments and guilty pleas.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
09-27-2007 |
Policy Issues
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Pro-Casino Arguments Ain't Nothing but a Mathqueradenew
Outside of Dr. Clyde Barrow's papers and studies that casinos have funded, hard numbers for casinos' economic benefits, by and large, don't exist -- and if it's problematic that Gov. Deval Patrick built a major policy decision on one man's research, it's doubly so that that research comes with a warning from the governor's own staff.
Dig Boston |
Julia Reischel and Paul McMorrow |
09-27-2007 |
Policy Issues
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