Word: reforms
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...issues and decide on who we'll support? How many times do we need to hear the same sound bites? And how do commercials with blatantly subliminal messages help us make informed choices? We would do well to consider structural regulation of campaigns in addition to campaign finance reform. Shortening the campaign period would be a first step in enabling candidates to spend more time in their roles as public servants...
Ultimately, Kleyman said, there is a need to reform the electoral system so that there can't be a candidate that wins the presidency without winning the popular vote--as would occur if Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins the election...
Choi said the students involved with the IOP would have taken action to reform the structure themselves, if Pryor had given them notice of his intent, even "if he had come to us with an ultimatum...
...appalling as is Terrell's death, the fact is that Georgia took steps years ago to keep such a tragedy from happening. After the death of a little girl named Kathy Joe in 1997, Georgia lawmakers vowed reform. Panic over foster care produced regulations designed to save children's lives. Until Terrell's death, however, no one had checked to make sure the changes were enforced. "I am not here to defend this system," says Barnes, who this year pushed for a children's ombudsman and laws to increase caseworker accountability. "We have not made this a high enough priority...
Until then, Alabama had been in the forefront of foster-care reform. It had been set on that path after an incident in which local social workers used an unpaid utility bill to prove a man was unfit to raise his eight-year-old son, removed the child and placed him not in a foster home but in a psychiatric hospital, where the boy was isolated and heavily dosed with psychoactive drugs. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on the father's behalf. As a result, the federal court not only remanded the boy to his father...