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Direct Democracy: Very Hard to Destroy
Published February 9, 2010, 12:59 pm, GOOD
"Direct democracy" is a blanket term for systems that allow voters to pass or reject laws by voting on "initiatives" and "referenda" at the polls. It's "direct" because laws get passed by popular vote, without the state legislature's involvement. Twenty-four states have some sort of direct democracy. California is one of them. Hiram Johnson, the Progressive governor of California from 1911 to ...
DELHI DIARY
Published February 9, 2010, 12:41 pm, Gulf Times
War over Mumbai is hotting up - in the saffron camp now.
Microsoft Slams Google Buzz
Published February 9, 2010, 12:40 pm, TechCrunch
"Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008." - Microsoft statement on Google Buzz . When one of the big guys launches a new product, competitors generally just sit it out and let the press do its thing ...
District budget woes spark tensions in board meeting
Published February 9, 2010, 11:54 am, Sugar Land Sun
Fort Bend ISD budget woes caused tensions to flare during Monday night’s regular school board meeting.
Rep. Ortega vows to protect REAP funding
Published February 9, 2010, 11:51 am, Altus Times
State Rep. Charles Ortega of Altus said today that he will work to protect funding for the Rural Economic Action Plan in spite of Gov. Brad Henry’s efforts to eliminate the program. “While I belie...
Southeast communities have much to lose from Sealaska's land bill
Published February 9, 2010, 11:45 am, Juneau Empire
Recent events in Craig have made the Sealaska Corps. lands bill a front-page story, prompting Sen. Lisa Murkowski to announce she will hold, "a field hearing on Prince of Wales Island."
News Brief
Published February 9, 2010, 11:10 am, Ekklesia
In a speech aimed at calming the warring factions within the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologised to gay people for the way they had been vilified and overlooked - but then said that unelected bishops in parliament were right to oppose equality legislation requiring the church not to discriminate against them.
Funding pulled for First Nations’ university
Published February 9, 2010, 10:54 am, Fort Frances Times
REGINA—Some say the federal government’s decision to pull funding from the First Nations University of Canada over ongoing concerns with finances and governance will be the “nail in the coffin” for the school.
Full text: Archbishop of Canterbury's presidential speech
Published February 9, 2010, 10:06 am, Guardian Unlimited
Rowan Williams's address to the General Synod In the last few weeks we've seen a number of topics coming up in public discussion, all centring on one set of questions – a set of questions which I think reflects painfully accurately some of the problems we face in our church, locally and internationally. The heated debates around the Equality Bill brought this out in one way, some of the renewed ...
The credit card trust lesson
Published February 9, 2010, 9:39 am, Salon.com
Why do we need a Consumer Financial Protection Agency? Because big banks only do the right thing when forced to
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