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Sensitive land-use laws earn high marks from the roving reporters. Wisconsin and Oregon are paragons of progressivism. But woe unto the state that suffers from a bad revenue base. New Hampshire, which taxes neither sales nor income, is an unfortunate case in point. Residents must pay unusually high levies on real estate but receive substandard public services in return. The state's motto, "Live Free or Die," may have a brave historical ring but makes little fiscal sense. The origins of good leadership, or the lack of it, are as varied as the states. Peirce and Hagstrom suggest...
...rendered in Elizabethan rhyming couplets from the introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy--regular General Hospital fare--("Oh, woe, that I should unaraesthetized bear such pain") and through to the end ("...and o'er the martinis that our good pay makes possible, We'll mourn the sorry state of this... most grievous hospital."). It's hardly Hamlet, but it sounds like...
While the recession hit later in California than in most states, it is making up in punch what it lacked in punctuality. One reason is an economic woe that California's taxpayers brought upon themselves. As low growth and high unemployment ate into projected tax revenues, Proposition 13, a statewide measure passed in 1978 that limits local property taxes, forced the state government to bail out towns, counties and school districts suddenly strapped for cash. The state is also doling out welfare checks to 2,233,507 Californians this year. The result: replacement of the state's once...
...Mokena, Ill., hovered anxiously over the bed of their three-month-old son Jonathan, watching his sudden and unexplained fever rise steadily higher. Three years later, Jonathan was dead of a rare and incurable form of colitis, leaving his emotionally shattered parents to face an equally catastrophic economic woe: a staggering $400,000 in medical bills incurred in the futile fight to save their...
...China: Alive in the Bitter Sea shifts from one snippet of life to another, Butterfield's sad image of the country becomes clearer. But the book is far from disjointed. Each anecdote of woe, each unfortunate experience, each tale of persecution fleshes out Butterfield's vision of official happy China's less appealing underside. More importantly, several significant themes reverberate throughout the work and color the reader's perceptions of this mammoth country...