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...current contract in the U.S.; United Water already had the contract to run the city's wastewater system. The city had purchased the waterworks from a private owner that was struggling, says Tim Hewitt, president and CEO of Veolia Water Indianapolis. "When we started, there were taste and odor problems, and the previous owner had basically told people to get over it." Veolia couldn't do that since the agreement sets incentives for customer satisfaction--along with everything else from water quality to sourcing from local and minority-owned enterprises. Veolia's experts, bolstered by local university researchers, pinpointed...
Funding will probably always be a problem for these kinds of projects. But even some conservatives are realizing that being tough on crime for the past three decades hasn't reduced the disproportionate number of criminals coming from certain areas. The Department of Justice now backs about 300 Weed and Seed programs nationwide, some in areas as small as a few square blocks. Police, prosecutors and neighborhood-watch groups collaborate to weed out the drug dealers and other undesirables, while public and private social-service providers seed the area with wholesome extracurricular activities, new community centers, job counseling and beautification...
...McCain is playing up to the right, it's not working all that well. He is still at odds with the conservative base: flexible on immigration, opposed to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and dedicated to preserving the Senate's right to filibuster judicial nominees. "The problem with McCain, and I don't know how he fixes it," says evangelical leader Richard Lands, "is that he's so unpredictable. What makes him appealing to independents makes him worrisome to social conservatives. They say, 'Yeah, he's pro-life, but will that have anything to do with who he nominates...
...fall in love. He won the straw poll at CPAC, and the endorsements are piling up. Romney has also picked up much of the political operation of Jeb Bush, who is the could-have-been candidate most longed for on the right. Money doesn't seem to be a problem either; Romney raised $6.5 million on a single National Call Day in early January. The campaign is flush enough to be on the air at this early date with ads to introduce Romney to voters as a "business legend" who "rescued the Olympics" and "turned around a Democratic state...
...says the judicial crisis is an internal Pakistani matter. On a trip to Islamabad, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher told reporters that while the U.S. supported Pakistan's moves toward democracy, this specific problem is "something the Pakistani system is going to have to deal with...