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...scene, joining Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's transition team last year and frequently challenging some of his top advisers to make deeper budget cuts. "She zeroed in on the finance piece as her baby, trying to get them to think through how to make immediate cuts," recalls a person familiar with the discussions, adding, "She's in your face...
...apocalyptic battle among the Justices of today's Supreme Court. Nothing revs them up like a symbolic fight over an intractable issue. Thursday's pile of opinions in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, striking down certain limits on corporate electioneering, found them arrayed in their now familiar 5-to-4 pattern and firing their big rhetorical guns. Depending on which very, very long opinion you prefer, they either struck a blow for the First Amendment or sold American politics into bondage to soulless corporations. (See 25 people who mattered...
...organized on Facebook, but the top opposition politicians snubbed the event. Conti says the country's leaders - left, right and center - are still focused solely on reaching the public via TV and newspapers. And unlike the Internet, the movers and shakers of the old media are some very familiar faces...
...absolutely right that this seed that we've planted is going to have to be carefully nurtured. And for readers who aren't familiar, the basic idea is that we should not only fund the usual repaving of highways - although that's important - but we should also think, What's the 21st century infrastructure that's out there? And those decisions should be made by people who really have clear ideas about the kind of infrastructure we're going to need. As opposed to it being determined solely by, you know, "Who's the chairman of the transportation committee from...
...ancient capital, can be forgiven for regarding Anwar al-Awlaki as just another warmongering imam with a grudge against the West and a deep hatred for the U.S. In fact, until last fall, most Yemenis had never heard of the American-born cleric living in their midst. Those most familiar with him were a small group of Western counterterrorism officials and experts - and even they thought al-Awlaki was of relatively little consequence. (See Muslims encouraging debate, not hate...