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...criticism that caucuses disenfranchise people who can’t attend.Caucuses could also be held on Saturday nights instead of week nights, or alternatively voting could be allowed during a longer window of time to enable greater participation.But big changes to the nominating processes rarely win approval. They are fine for rules freaks and debating societies to discuss but the fact remains that, in politics, most change is evolutionary, not revolutionary.David Yepsen is the political columnist for the Des Moines Register and is a fellow this spring at the Institute of Politics...

Author: By David Yepsen | Title: If It Ain’t Broke... | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...Andrew D. Fine ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: Idiots on the Charles | 4/27/2008 | See Source »

...have to be Jack Nicholson to afford the top-of-the-line taco truck experience. Gobbling oniony beef tacos as you rest your paper plate on your car hood and watch the sun set over the freeway traffic will set you back about $3. It is an evening of fine dining accessible to any college student, construction worker or unemployed actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Taco Truck War | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...effect around May 15 has some of L.A.'s taco truck drivers and their customers worried whether the restaurants on wheels will be able to keep rolling. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors made parking a taco truck in one spot for more than an hour punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 or six months in jail or both. The law applies to mobile caterers in unincorporated areas of the city, which includes spicy ground beef's ground zero, East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Taco Truck War | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...years, county law has required that taco trucks move after 30 minutes, but rarely has the law, which carried a $60 fine, been enforced. The new, harsher taco truck law, and a promise of stricter enforcement, was inspired by the needs of businesses and residents in East L.A., says County Supervisor Gloria Molina, who proposed the regulations. "It all stems from an ongoing turf battle between the vendors and the merchants," Molina says. "The businesses don't appreciate [the taco trucks] down in front. And some of the residents consider it annoying to have the trucks out until midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Taco Truck War | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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