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Both the Police Patrol Officers Association and the Police Superior Officers Association contend that the civilian-run Police Review Board--New England's only such panel--does not have the right to question officers...
When selecting fellows, the IOP puts together a group of candidates and then invites them to Harvard for interviews. The nominees are interviewed and chosen by IOP staff, members of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC)--made up of undergraduates and graduate students--and a special fellowship panel...
...Energy John Herrington established an internal DOE team, known as the "junkyard dogs," to look into safety problems at federal nuclear facilities. After the Soviet Union's Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Herrington turned to the National Academy of Sciences to assess the situation in South Carolina. An academy panel concluded last year that DOE was torn by the "conflicting responsibilities" of meeting production quotas while maintaining safety. Operation of the facilities, it said, had been left in the hands of "largely self-regulated contractors," while safety oversight was "ingrown and largely outside the scrutiny of the public...
Selected by a panel of experts in state and local government, the winners each earned $100,000 prizes from the Ford Foundation. "These innovators represent a new activism in government, a willingness to grapple with some of society's toughest problems," Professor of Public Policy Mary Jo Bane wrote in a press release. Bane heads the program that administers Innovations in State and Local Government Awards...
This year's winning projects, dealing with issues like homelessness, undereducation and unemployment, were chosen from an original pool of 970 entrants. The 10-member selection panel was chaired by a former governor of Michigan, William G. Milliken, and included journalists, academics and politicians...