Word: states
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...major alternatives, State Rep. Melvin H. King advocates the progressive policies that Boston needs in the 1980s. King supports public housing cooperatives, opposes vacancy decontrol and has a realistic and humane grasp of the city's crime and health problems. King is not garden variety Boston mayoral candidate; he is not white, he is not Irish and he does not descend from an unbroken line of Boston pols. If Boston voters are looking for a creative, forward-looking mayor, King is a logical choice...
...State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty, whose campaign has become a painful exercise in redundancy, has spent too much time criticizing White and not enough time talking about his own plans for the city. This year, the perennial challenger has talked a lot about the vague concept of "neighborhoods," but nobody can spell out what he means--and more importantly--what he would do. To make matters worse, some say Timilty does not write his own political scripts. And many believe he simply lacks the competence to govern the city...
Should the measure pass as expected, all state, county, and municipal offices would be closed on the day of the visit...
...Shah's government. It would have been wiser to recognize that in a society like that, economic development produces new classes and new groups that somehow have to be fitted into the political process. Thinking back to how I would have acted on that insight as Secretary of State, I confess I am still somewhat puzzled...
While the pension problems of private workers are serious, those of public employees can be drastic. Some local governments soon will reap the whirlwind from years of promising elaborate benefits while making insufficient contributions to pension kitties. The General Accounting Office watchdogs reviewed at random 72 state and local government pension plans and found that 53 of them failed to make contributions on the level required by the Federal Government of private corporations. Says Michael Thome, head of the California state teachers retirement system: "Pension costs have been pushed into the future for somebody else to pay. Now, that...