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While some believe that Obama’s proposal could free the country from dependence on foreign oil, The United States’ oil and gas reserves simply do not compare to the Middle East’s. Even suggesting that they do is a political façade. Rather...
The budget proposal calls for an appending level—the amount the city manager allocates for the public schools—of $137.5 million, which represents an increase of $3.7 million over Fiscal Year 2010. Salaries comprise around 77.5 percent, or about $107 million, of the sum.
The School Committee will formally discuss Young’s proposal at its May 4 meeting.
Meant to bring everyday Europeans closer to the E.U. institutions that govern them in distant Brussels, the direct democracy experiment allows citizens to sling their concerns onto the E.U. agenda. The principle is simple: if campaigners muster 1 million signatures for a proposal, they can ask the European Commission, the...
And for all the talk of stirring democracy, critics say the experience of such schemes in places like California and Switzerland shows that some initiatives fail to generate reasoned debate and open participation. Jean-Thomas Leseuer, head of the Thomas More Institute, a Paris-based think tank, says citizens' initiatives...