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Nine-term U.S. Representative Amo Houghton ’50, R-N.Y., will announce in early April whether or not he will run again for the seat in New York’s 29th Congressional District...
Barend has worked with Houghton—who hails from the Harvard family for which Houghton Library is named—on economic development in the 29th district and says she has a lot of respect...
...runs, Barend would be the only Democrat vying for the seat in this 29th district, which went to Bush in 2000, tossed 25 percent of its vote to Ross Perot in 1992, and has four Republicans who have declared that they will run if Houghton retires...
Houghton has spent nearly as many years representing the 29th district as Barend has been alive. But her supporters say Barend’s relative youth won’t hurt her potential candidacy...
...fast for couples with young children as for those without kids. Why? Confidence in the public schools has dwindled, leaving millions of families to conclude that the only way to ensure Junior a slot in a safe, quality school is to snatch up a home in a good school district. In most cities that means paying more for the family home. Since the mid-'70s, the amount of the average family budget earmarked for the mortgage has increased a whopping 69% (adjusted for inflation). At the same time, the average father's income increased less than 1%. How to make...