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Trina Leas, 13, knows the rap against summer camp. "Fool, forget that," friends tell her. "That's stupid." They would rather have her hang out with them on the streets of Peoria, Illinois. But Trina's experience last summer at Peoria's Camp Neighborhood House opened up another side to her life. She hiked and made candles and found time to reflect on a slain classmate. In a letter she wrote, "The shot went off and hit DeWayne in the side and he fell to the ground and his guts were hanging out and he was trying to put them...
...study it in Maryland, however: Young's decision has been appealed. You must go to Chilton County, one of three sizable areas (the others are Alamogordo, New Mexico, and Peoria, Illinois) where cumulative voting is established...
...Moncada, whom a 1987 cumulative vote turned into the 24%-Hispanic city's first Hispanic councilperson in decades, was re-elected handily in each subsequent vote. (The cumulative arrangement ended this year, however, and it remains to be seen whether she will retain her seat when the system reverts.) Peoria has had only one cumulative election, which created a black councilman...
...Senate's reputation is very much at stake." Whether or not this entire issue is actually relevant to the lives of average Americans is moot; that every major newspaper has plastered its pages with stores, news analyses and columns on the controversy will force Bob and Mary Jones of Peoria to think about Packwood and the Senate--and not, perhaps, about the real political issues facing them...
...career was spent defending the principles valued in places like Peoria: lower taxes, a tolerant but sensible social policy, and a foreign policy predicated on the exceptionalism of America. If you wanted to know how middle America would feel about something, the best thing to do would be to ask Bob Michel...