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Legislation is slowly beginning to change. Since 2003, Washington State's vessel-removal program has led a crackdown on derelict boats, using ramped-up boat-registration fees as funding for the program, which has so far cleared 188 boats. "It gave us financial capability, plus the legal hammer if we needed to use it," says Doug Sutherland, the state's commissioner of public lands. Other state officials have expressed interest in Washington's model. In September, the California legislature passed a bill to increase fines for owners of derelict vessels. And last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed...
...comeuppance for preferring creative writing to econometrics. Surely our future-minded friends who slaved away on demand curves do not deserve to suffer the same fate. Yet as the economy crumbles, it seems terrifyingly more and more likely that we will all be in the same boat...
...like the GOP might be able to win the ultimate contest this time around.For many Democrats, the logical conclusion was that only bullying could answer bullying: substance is great, the thought went, but bite is best. Since then, Dems have gone through two losing presidential campaigns and one Swift Boat political ad disaster, all of which seemed to hammer the point home: Democrats just weren’t being tough enough. The advice keeps cropping up this election cycle. This week’s New York Times op-ed page proves the point, featuring an encounter between fictional President Josiah...
...Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt manned the B-division boat, while skipper Powers and sophomore crew Grace Charles sailed in the C-division...
...dynamic freshman duo of skipper Emily Lambert and crew Annie DeAngelo continued to impress in their second week of competition, beating out the Charleston boat for first place in the B division...