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Cambridge residents expressed mixed feelings toward the Cambridge City Council last week after it failed to elect a mayor for the seventh time during its latest meeting...
...when unemployment exceeds 10%, the GOP can elect a Senator in Massachusetts. But what happens when the economy returns to more normal conditions? The Republicans' recent electoral successes do not overcome 20 years of GOP difficulty appealing to women, young people and the college-educated. It wins elections by accumulating a huge supermajority in one demographic: whites, especially white men, who are not poor but who have not finished college. That's a big slice of America, but it's a shrinking slice...
...they were aware of the local entrance fees before they bid for the casino. They counter that they have a diverse range of entertainment offerings, including the Universal Studios theme park as well as fine dining and hotels, and so are not solely reliant on gaming. (Local families who elect to only visit Universal Studios and not gamble, for instance, would not have to pay the casino entrance fee.) "Resorts World is on track to reach its target of 13 million visitors in its first year of operations," says Robin Goh, Assistant Director of Communications at Resorts World Sentosa. Executives...
...conclude that Prop 8 is an unconstitutional as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. If they fail, they will be tossing into the dustbin the reasoning that the Supreme Court used in Loving to strike down laws that banned interracial marriage, thereby implicitly overriding it. Two years ago, we elected a president raised by parents whose marriage was only considered fully valid after a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. Perhaps one day, after the Court makes the right decision regarding laws like Prop 8, we will elect another...
Costa Rica has always been a progressive beacon on Central America's benighted street: the reliable democracy that makes a point of eschewing a military so it can spend more on schoolteachers. But until the Feb. 7 presidential election, it had yet to select a female head of state, something its two less-developed neighbors, Nicaragua and Panama, did long ago. Now a new President-elect, Laura Chinchilla, has finally struck a blow for Ticas, female Costa Ricans...