Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...President Bartlet's manic attention to local school politics on a recent episode of NBC-TV's hit show "The West Wing" seems especially appropriate in the final days of this real-life American campaign. Anyone hearing George W. Bush and Al Gore might think that the big vote we're casting next week is really for superintendent in chief...
...rate of inflation thereafter. The state would also use at least $50 million in budget surpluses for the next five years to create math and science programs at public schools. - South Carolinia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas and Colorado seek to generate or distribute gaming and lottery profits to benefit local school districts - Idaho could be more flexible with money generated by the sale of land owned by its school endowment. The money could be invested, as is usual, or could be used to buy more desirable land...
Westland turned out to be a humbling experience for a reporter armed with all the national campaign issue charts and graphs. Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill was right. All politics are local...
...Everyone says they're sick of this," he says. "But do you know what the highest-rated TV show is around here? It's the replay of the Monday night council meetings Tuesday nights on local cable." The mayor is willing to bet his best rod and reel that few Westlanders tuned in to the third presidential debate last week. They were watching their city council soap opera...
...statewide membership of 8,000 after just four years of existence. Two years ago their campaign volunteers made the difference in three close statehouse races. This year they are helped immensely by the presence of Proposition 2 on Michigan's November ballot. It's a fight between local and state power and it has energized gun owners who want one set of hunting and licensing laws statewide, not a confusing mosaic of local rules and regulations. The gun club where I spent some time shooting Sunday afternoon, the Western Wayne County Conservation Association, was plastered with "Vote No on Proposition...