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...city’s fiscal responsibility is another issue of concern to candidates. Cambridge’s city budget grew by 2 percent this fiscal year from the year before—a growth, according to City Manager Healy, that in part alleviates the $9.7 million reduction in state aid to the city...
According to a Pew Research Center study released last week, 39.6 percent of all 18- to 24-year-olds—or 11.5 million students—were enrolled in a two- or four-year college last October. The increase derives primarily from dramatic growth in community college enrollment, according to the study...
...Woods, an upscale Detroit neighborhood, Pugh told the crowd of plans to create a room for the city council's president to hold press conferences, modeled largely after the White House press-briefing room. Never mind that Detroit is struggling to resolve a budget deficit of at least $275 million. "P.r. is part of the job," Pugh said. But the host, Mary Ellen Gurewitz, a respected Detroit attorney, pressed him on issues of procedural and financial matters, and was hardly impressed. "I don't think he knows anything about policy, and how you deal with those issues," says Gurewitz, whose...
...that light, the main legitimacy problem with the August vote was not the 1 million-plus fake votes that were cast mostly for Karzai but the 12 million-plus votes claimed by the Taliban. No one actually voted for the Taliban, of course, and its call for a boycott of the poll was enforced by threat of death. But whether out of fear, political choice or sheer indifference, 12 million voters - representing 70% of the electorate, compared with just 30% in 2004 - stayed away from the ballot stations. A runoff election was expected to see an even smaller turnout...
...events of the last month have drifted into uncharted territory. And on Oct. 20 Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono allegedly penned a deal, rumored to cost Australia $45 million, which would keep asylum seekers heading to Australia detained in Indonesia. The deal is dubbed by Australians as the Indonesian Solution, and many are unhappy that Indonesia is doing Rudd's dirty work. Following a personal plea from Rudd last month, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gave the Oceanic Viking the green light to disembark in Indonesia. It was taken to Bintan Island, where an Australian-funded detention center...