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...most part, the rest of the old-time liberal coalition is not budging. Last month the N.A.A.C.P. joined with the liberal People for the American Way to organize an antivoucher demonstration in Philadelphia. "The N.A.A.C.P. is out of touch," says Congressman Floyd Flake, a New York Democrat. "The next wave of the civil rights movement will be demand for choice in schools." All the same, when the House voted earlier this month to approve a Republican proposal for a $7 million voucher plan for Washington--a basket-case system where by some calculations 40% of the kids drop out before...
Doesn't anybody have any loyalty anymore? Not only did those IRS agents squeal on their bosses, they couldn't even do it without gray screens and frosted-flake voices. And while the G-men were singing like canaries, the senators were having a, er, whale of a time overturning some other sacred cows, like the FDA and the McCain-Feingold bill. The House had some trouble keeping NASA in check ? David Wolf, that dirty rat that actually wanted to go to the Mir, slipped through Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner's fingers like a stratospheric salmon...
...poverty may be over, its soldiers in disarray and retreat, but the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a departing member of Congress, seems not to have got the news. Flake's Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city...
...transformed abandoned city-owned lots and state mortgage subsidies into 50 affordable suburban-style two-family homes. Down the street from the church is a row of storefront offices offering everything from Medicaid-funded health care for the homebound to city-sponsored psychosocial services for the mentally ill. Flake, who this month announced that he is leaving Congress to devote himself full-time to his church job, says Allen A.M.E. has "taken an urban community that by the press's definition was blighted and turned it around. The best role for government is to be a partner in that process...
...still missing that key bit of information: her Social Security number. I visited Deep Data, whose Flake Index promises "a veritable gold mine of data." I paid my $20 and got the same lien information I'd already seen...