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...shout-out heard around the world: Texas' Republican governor Rick Perry's praise for his state's tea-party protesters, accompanied by not-so-veiled references to a potential Lone Star State secession. The remarks prompted glaring red-website headlines and instant fodder for cable-TV pundits. But for Texas political insiders, Perry's waving of the flag of secession was just the latest volley in a Texas-size Republican civil war - a face-off between Perry and his potential rival for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. (See pictures of tea-party tax protests across...
Some creditors seem to think the company's assets could be worth more if they were divided up in bankruptcy court - an option opposed by Michigan's Democratic governor and congressional representatives, who are putting pressure on the Obama administration to keep the company from being broken up in bankruptcy...
...closes the $3.6 billion budget shortfall with federal stimulus funds, cuts in services and programs, and a reduction in local aid to cities and towns.The House Ways and Means committee submitted a $27.44 billion budget for fiscal year 2010—$532 million less than what was proposed by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 three months ago. That same month, Patrick made a midyear budget cut of $128 million, leading to a local aid decrease of approximately $2.6 million for the City of Cambridge for fiscal year 2009. The House’s budget relies...
...Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani defended the move to establish Shari'a, saying it was the only way to bring peace in the valley. "Islam is our religion and we are Muslims," he told reporters in Peshawar, the provincial capital. "The state is responding to the aspirations of the people." Yet more than 80,000 of the 1.5 million residents have fled the region. "The Taliban are taking Swat back to the Dark Ages and the Pakistani government is now complicit in their horrific abuses," said Ali Dayan Hasan, senior South Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Tossing out the rights...
...Alan is a reformer and that is what I love about him. As superintendent, he launched a major administrative reorganization and an academic reform plan aimed at improving student achievement. And the plan is working." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, upon announcing Bersin as state education secretary, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...