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...study and improve the city’s middle school system. The Commission charged Fowler-Finn with presenting a set of recommendations to the school committee, based on feedback from administrators, teaching staff, and parents. On both nights, Fowler-Finn went over the pros and cons of four potential options for Cambridge’s middle schools, which include working with the current K-8 structure, establishing a 6-8 middle school, creating a 7-8 grade unit at the city’s high school, or enlarging the 6-8 units at current K-8 schools. He asked parents...
Palin trounced Murkowski in the 2006 GOP primary. Facing former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the fall, she shifted her pipeline position to "look gubernatorial," recalled Bitney, who served as her policy director. The original "all-Alaska" option excluded any role for the major producers. But they, after all, had the gas and the capital needed to build and operate their own pipeline. So Palin took a more inclusive stance in the general election, favoring open competition for anyone, including the major producers, who were willing to meet certain criteria for a pipeline...
...notion that young people—here at Columbia or anywhere in any university—aren’t offered the choice, the option of participating in military service, I think is a mistake,” Obama said at the ServiceNation presidential forum hosted by Columbia earlier this month...
...surprised and relieved when it didn't pass." Freeborough says she's a "little more confident today that Congress will do the right thing. Now, I feel like they're going to take the time to see if this is really going to work, if this is the best option out there...
...alternate route, described by two aides as a "nuclear" option, is for the Senate to pass a measure first, then adjourn and force the House to accept the Senate measure. Such a move would need to be attached to an innocuous tax bill already pending before the Senate in order to circumvent a constitutional mandate that all tax writing must originate in the House. "We always keep tax bills available for such situations," said Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Senate majority leader Harry Reid. "But I don't see that happening as of right...