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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 ...

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DELHI DIARY

Published February 9, 2010, 12:41 pm, Gulf Times

War over Mumbai is hotting up - in the saffron camp now.

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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 ...

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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.

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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...

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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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