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Will the new $7.4 billion spending package that was just approved make a dent in the problem or does it, as critics claim, throw more good money after bad? The legislature used to pass bill after bill giving the department of corrections more and more money and it never tied the increased funding to performance measures showing whether they were involving inmates in programs or preparing them for release. Under this law, the prisons department is only allowed to build all of the new proposed beds in phases over the next decade. Officials can't get more money from...
...appears that a massively funded Bloomberg candidacy would endanger more states won by Gore and Kerry than those won by Bush. On the other hand, if Bloomberg was able to pick off some electoral votes, he could theoretically throw the outcome into the House of Representatives, producing another set of complex what...
...just prior to November elections. Rounding out the remaining top searched-for political issues over the last four weeks were: "Iraq casualties," "death penalty," and the topic that was featured extensively in the recent debates, "illegal immigration." For those anticipating Al "doth protest too much" Gore's announcement to throw his hat in the ring, search terms around global warming and climate change are noticeably absent from political search terms. Searches on the term are sending Internet users to news and educational sites, indicating that Internet users are either still in the stage of learning about the topic or that...
...fellow Democrats want a presidential nominee long on experience, vision and brains, they will persuade former Vice President Gore [May 28] to throw his hat into the ring. President George W. Bush's disastrous terms have shown us all how hazardous it is to pick a President with very little relevant experience. Good intentions, handsome hairstyles and slick sound bites don't help much when the chips are down. Douglas C. Kelley, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN...
...Someone told me, ‘Gee, they haven’t been doing that around here.’ ” Bok said. “But by that time I’d written it. I couldn’t burn it or throw it away, so I submitted it.” He added that he had “no stake” in deciding whether President-elect Drew G. Faust would continue to write and file an annual report. In his report, which was addressed to the alumni Board of Overseers, Bok reflects...