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When Rod Paige first took the helm of the struggling Houston public schools seven years ago, Gayle Fallon, president of the local teachers' union, blasted him as "the most antiteacher superintendent we've had in the past decade." By the end of Paige's tenure last month, however, Fallon was giving a far different testimonial. She gushed that Paige "will leave a better district than he came to" and that "he'll be a very effective Secretary of Education...
...keep the juice flowing, outgoing Energy Secretary Bill Richardson last month ordered suppliers to keep selling to California--a demand that rankles. "Suppliers such as ourselves are being forced to assume [the utilities'] credit risk with no promise of payment," says Steve Letbetter, CEO of Reliant Energy in Houston. "This is unreasonable and unfair and cannot be allowed to continue...
...President backs hundreds of millions of dollars in extra funding for an energy-assistance program to ease the burden on the poorest Americans. For everyone else, high prices could be around for a while. The clearest indication of that came from Kenneth Lay, the chairman of Enron, the Houston-based energy giant that is the nation's largest power marketer, with a major stake in California. Last week Lay warned that California would have to resolve a "pretty much self-inflicted problem"--even if that means price increases for consumers...
...kept Clinton dancing and ducking, at one point accusing him of being responsible for the genocide of 5,000 Iraqi children monthly through U.S. sanctions. It was vintage Pacifica Radio, the hell-raising, corporate-bashing voice of the left for a half-century, with stations in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, in addition to WBAI and the flagship KPFA in Berkeley, Calif. But that voice is now being muffled in a way that would embarrass the sandal-wearing founders of the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, some of whom now stage their sit-ins in the next life...
...Pacifica has 800,000 listeners, and after 50 years of being on the air, that's just not good enough," says board chair David Acosta, a Houston C.P.A. Vice chairman Ken Ford, an engineer with the conservative Housing Trade Association in Washington, says the challenge is to honor the social-justice mission while Pacifica grows. "But we are a corporation. It's nonprofit, but we have to operate as a business...