Word: engler
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Dottie V. Engler, co-director of external relations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said she was delighted by the turnout. The audience thronged Askwith Hall, where the reading was held, standing in the aisles and even sitting on the edge of the stage...
...There’s something fabulous about people getting so excited about poetry,” Engler said. “By the size of the crowd, you would think we were bringing a major NFL player here...
...gains-tax revenues. Indeed, many states were able to support municipalities and cut tax rates at the same time, a strategy that critics say is backfiring and is more to blame than the recession for the states' fiscal mess. Michigan is cutting revenue to townships like Harrison. Governor John Engler is expected to announce some $470 million in total budget cuts this week. Harrison township has already had to shut down its recreation department, sell 12 vehicles, slash $16,000 earmarked to clear seaweed that hampers boat traffic near the Lake St. Clair shoreline and cut $19,000 for improvements...
...that asks of the state's deficit, "Governor, what did you do with all that money?" One big gubernatorial trend with national implications is the decline of the so-called Frostbelt Republican Governor. In the 1990s some of the biggest names in the G.O.P. came from this tier: John Engler of Michigan, William Weld of Massachusetts, Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey, to name a few. These Governors aided the G.O.P. in two fundamental ways: they helped control redistricting to make it more favorable for Republicans, and they helped moderate the national...
...million Americans have lost their health plans along with their jobs. State governments, facing a collective deficit of $40 billion, can no longer afford the extra Medicaid benefits they began paying for a few years ago. "You can't just manage your way out of it anymore," says Engler. "The numbers are getting so big and it's growing so fast that it's just dwarfing our efforts...