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Finally, time has come for the questions and answers to begin.
After ensconcing himself behind a political firewall for the better part of a year, Andrew M. Cuomo formally announced Saturday that he is running for governor. Now he faces a test to see if his sky-high approval ratings will stand up to the rigors of a statewide political contest.
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If I was the editor of your paper, I would definitively publish the column 'Ask A Mexican'. In my opinion, 'Ask A Mexican' has a contribution to the community of Mexican ancestry because it describes, in a creative and sophisticated way, the different levels, actions, situations, characteristics, and stereotypes. Furthermore, this column carries out the reality of the political, social and cultural values of the Chicano movement by presenting a wide variety of questions and answers where topics such as discrimination, indigenous heritage, government corruption, protests, anti-immigration movements, strikes and traditional family attachment are reflected. Also, the column presents the concept of rasquachismo because I can personally see that there is an invention of new conceptual ideas ...
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... would have required registration of "political intelligence" firms, its insider trading provision...
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Questions and answers concerning various aspects of political campaigns, including candidate salaries and newspaper endorsements, are presented.
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For 45 days a year, the Legislature is the vortex of political intrigue in the state. Here are answers to a few of the questions and rumors circulating on Capitol Hill.
In the last election, Speaker Greg Curtis squeaked to victory by a handful of votes despite being one of Utah's most powerful political leaders. Did the close election reduce his political clout?
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Charles Lindblom's seminal article, "The Science of 'Muddling Through,'" recognized serious policy-development limitations at the time of its writing. He argued that while root analysis theoretically offered a more rational-comprehensive approach policy analysts lacked the intellectual and computing capacity to accomplish it; whereas, branch analysis, or limited successive comparison, was more reachable. Much has changed since then. This article revisits Lindblom's arguments and asserts root and branch analyses are separate and distinct from rational-comprehensive and incremental policy approaches. More rigorous and robust analyses are possible and desirable within the context of an emergent complex adaptive political system framework. Such an approach provides more "analytical" justifi...
..., truth, and understanding but to questions about the meaningfulness of our everyday experienc...)? If so, can this paradigm be influenced? Answers to these questions are worth pursuing, especially ...
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Polls show property taxes are the voters' top concern in this election, and Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Doug Forrester have each put forth plans that mirror their political philosophies. Here are answers to some questions about their plans, and the accompanying chart shows how different taxpayers would fare if the plans were enacted as proposed.
Q: What's Forrester promising?
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If you replied, "Stephen Who?" when you learned that Stephen Colbert is running for president, just wait. Following in the footsteps of other famous comic candidates - Paulsen, Pogo, Perot - he can make a difference.
Colbert, for those who have not watched "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central, often asks better questions and gets more telling answers from today's political leaders than the Washington press corps.
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Two years ago this summer, heating oil prices in Maine hit $5 a gallon. State government planned to open emergency shelters to keep residents from freezing in their homes by winter, but the global financial collapse averted the crisis.
That close call will serve as a stark reminder for the next governor of just how vulnerable Maine is to volatile, imported energy.
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Does the experience vary across countries and, if so, why? A vast literature deals with these issues, including a number of comprehensive surveys from which this paper draws, and where the interested reader is advised to go for more details.1 For the purposes of this article, I will review the evidence so far on the four main ways in which trade is linked with inequality and poverty (economic growth, family income, the labor market, and fiscal effects) and attempt to draw some lessons for policy. A study for India found that trade liberalization has indeed increased labor demand elasticity and has done so more in states with more labor market flexibility. 12 A study in Mexico found that tariff declines were associated with increased income uncertainty.13 A more uncertain product demand...
...? Or does it help reduce poverty? These questions are at the heart of the major economic and social ...For developed industrial nations, the answers are bound to determine the outcome of the currentl... to those questions are shaping the political and economic debates and future of the region. A n...