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...format of last night’s forum offered little opportunity for head-to-head debate. Candidates took turns answering the six questions selected by a panel of Cambridge residents for last night’s event. Candidates were asked whether they felt that a charter adopted in 1940 known as “Plan E”—which instituted City Council election by proportional representation and installed a city manager to run local government—limited citizens’ participation in municipal government. They also fielded questions about property taxes in Cambridge?...
...with 100 percent of the vote, there may have been something oddly familiar in the news from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, shortly after the polls closed on Saturday, that 99 percent of voters in some provinces in the Shi'ite south had approved the charter...
...centric, his allies say, it's because New Orleans' fiscal problems--which he has said will result in layoffs of possibly 3,000 municipal workers--are so pressing. In a letter to Blanco, Nagin recently laid out his vision for a new, more prosperous New Orleans. It includes creating charter schools, loosening restrictions on the city's ability to levy taxes and passing state-income-tax exemptions for manufacturers who set up plants to process some of the 23 million tons of raw materials--such as rubber, steel and coffee beans--that move through New Orleans ports each year. Nagin...
...election, but leaders like Mutlaq were persuaded in the summer to join a committee to draft the constitution. The U.S. believes that drawing the Sunnis into the political process is the key condition for defeating the insurgency. But even those Sunnis that entered the process have rejected the draft charter, citing several controversial clauses. Their main bone of contention is federalism: while Shiite and Kurdish parties favor strong regional governments with a high degree of autonomy, Sunnis fear this would lead inevitably to the dismemberment of Iraq...
...this entire episode has convinced many of us that they will try anything to win the referendum," Saleh Mutlaq, one of the Sunni leaders who have been negotiating with the government over the constitution, told TIME. The transitional constitution drawn up by the U.S. holds that the new charter can be defeated if it is rejected by two thirds of voters in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces. That was always going to be a tall order for the Sunnis, because although they make up the majority in four provinces, it is far from certain that they have...