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...this kind of legerdemain that prompted Common Cause last week to call for the appointment of an independent prosecutor to investigate both parties for $31 million worth of soft-money spending that, in that organization's judgment, came across clearly as straight-ahead electioneering. Ann McBride, president of the watchdog group, calls these kinds of activities "the most massive violations of campaign-finance laws since the Watergate scandal...
Then, too, a number of alternative weeklies are stepping in where older papers, sensitive to charges of negativity, have let their role as community watchdog slide. New Times Publications, for instance, claims some 700,000 readers of its seven increasingly successful papers in Phoenix, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. New Times's Westword kept dogged watch over the start-up problems at the Denver International Airport last year, while the dailies, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, were less critical. And the Phoenix New Times beat that city's dailies on the corruption scandals...
University as Watchdog...
Morris earned serious policy credentials to go with his political smarts. He spent six years as an analyst with a city-budget watchdog group, became issues director for a failed New York gubernatorial candidate (meeting his wife, litigator Eileen McGann, during the campaign), then hung out his shingle as a free-lance issues adviser. "It didn't hurt that candidates thought I could deliver the West Side," he says. He helped a raft of local Democrats hone their positions but found that policy alone didn't fire his engines. "I wanted to find some way to connect issues with electability...
...continuing battle between chain stores and watchdog groups over the fate of Harvard Square, the Harvard Square Defense Fund has sued to prevent a Starbucks coffee shop from renting space on Church Street...