Word: nonpartisan
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...more than twenty Harvard College students from a variety of political persuasions, we have formulated a blueprint for redistricting reform that we are introducing at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum tonight at 6 p.m. Our plan would shift control of congressional redistricting into the hands of a nonpartisan commission independent from the state legislature. We layout several guidelines that commissioners should follow: every district should be as compact as possible, district lines should coincide as much as possible with municipal, neighborhood, and physical boundaries, as well as with state legislative district lines. States, of course, vary in their institutional...
Sachs and Tyson are Democrats (though Sachs insists that his work is nonpartisan); Republican officials argue that the U.S. economy will keep humming along despite red ink and higher rates. That view was seconded earlier this month by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who suggested in London that a tighter fiscal policy could stabilize or even shrink the U.S. trade deficit. Still, mindful that alarmist predictions of two decades ago turned out to be wrong, Sachs and Tyson are not forecasting a calamity in the U.S. They also expect wider damage to be limited. "The U.S. deficit is really...
...hated intensely, whereas Carson enjoyed the benefits of never having, say, fired thousands of air-traffic controllers. Reagan took a side unapologetically--Carson ribbed him on a 1978 show as "a little to the right of the Orkin exterminator." Carson held his politics close and kept his jokes nonpartisan. (A rare time that he did anything remotely political was when he hosted Reagan's 1981 pre-Inauguration gala...
That's the position of John West, associate director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. A nonpartisan but generally conservative think tank, the institute was founded in 1990 by George Gilder, a Nixon speechwriter turned technology evangelist (TIME in 1974 called him the U.S.'s "leading male-chauvinist-pig author"), and his Harvard roommate Bruce Chapman, director of the Census Bureau during the Reagan Administration...
...Despite hopes that Schwarzenegger would take on Prop. 13, senior aide Murphy says the Governor "doesn't believe in changing" it. Some $15 billion in bonds tided the state over for this year, but by early January, Schwarzenegger's administration must come up with a budget to plug what nonpartisan state legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill estimates will be a $6.7 billion deficit for 2005-06. For the 2006-07 fiscal year, Hill expects past borrowing to swell the shortfall to $10 billion...