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Every two years, the Whitney Biennial sails round and is promptly declared by its critics to be sinking. Look, the mast has gone! The hull has sprung, the captain is drunk, and the ship's macaw has taken over the chartroom! The pumps cannot keep up with the gurgling inflow of banality! Heavens, the parallels with Western civilization itself are too evident to resist! Not only are things not what they used to be, but it is so long since they were what they were that few can remember what they might have been. Indeed, one of the main...
...there are no coalitions for any individual changes, but there are different people throwing in suggestions," Capuano said. Many of them overlap on proposals to override some of the mechanisms and override restrictions of the amendment. Cities and towns can override Proposition 2 1/2 only in a biennial election...
...majority in favor of continuing city government. But unlike other decisions in a democracy, a majority is no good; 2/3 of the city's voters would have to vote to override the limitation. And anyway the city could not vote on the measure until the next biennial election, two fiscal years and two budgets away. By that time, Cambridge will be lucky to have an election commission...
...providing services is rising. And they argue that many officials are presenting worst-case examples, which the legislature would prevent. And if all else fails and a city gets strapped, it has two ways to override Proposition 2 1/2 getting two-thirds approval in a local referendum during the biennial general election or in elections called by the legislature in the November of an intervening year...
...first concern is success in Michigan's biennial primary, which falls this year on August 5: "The vote itself is not really important, but we see it as a dry run for November, when our candidate will be considered more of a real alternative. Now we can find the soft spots in our campaign and firm them...