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...Your article properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs. But it did not adequately characterize the weak centrism of Democrats. With our nation in desperate, urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin. Mark Warner Minneapolis...
Washington, Broken Your article "Why Washington's Tied Up in Knots," properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs [March 1]. But it did not adequately characterize the wan centrism of Democrats. With our nation in urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin. Mark Warner, MINNEAPOLIS...
...elections aren't or can't be held this year, parliamentarians are considering other options to fill the governmental vacuum. One, says Senator Jeanty Jean Williams of the southern Nippes department, is that the current legislature create a "regional state council," with 30 members chosen from designated civic groups around the country. That body's job in turn would be to help put together a "national state council" to act as a sort of interim parliament until formal legislative elections can take place, perhaps next year. "That is the most popular alternative," says Williams, "because of its [regional] inclusiveness...
...civic leaders like Vargas, who is a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen, say the Obama Administration and the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderón need to pay closer attention to what many believe is the real reason the narcos are turning even more vicious. And it has less to do with Calderón's military crusade than with a murderous blunder the drug cartels made shortly after midnight on Jan. 31 that may well have changed the course of the drug...
Your article properly identified Republicans as civic saboteurs. But it did not adequately characterize the wan centrism of Democrats. With our nation in desperate, urgent need of major reforms, we are faced with a political choice between the status quo or doubling down on ruin...