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According to Celucci, Dukakis raised the state income tax from 5 percent to 5.95 percent in a hike that he promised would only be temporary...
Elizabeth H. Dole is known today as a former Republican Senator for the state of North Carolina, former candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, and the wife of Presidential candidate Bob Dole. But fifty years ago, she was a graduate student at Harvard...
According to Silbert, in those years Dukakis was primarily interested in politics at the local and state level. In fact, Dukakis said, while he was a student at the Law School he commuted from Brookline, where he was heavily involved with urban renewal projects...
...clear that in late ’80s things were really getting out of control in terms of the fiscal management of state government,” Celucci said. “Spending was up; taxes were up. People wanted some fundamental changes in the fiscal management of state government...
...policies, however, several troubling occurrences within the world of education this year have roused far too little attention. In Utah, for instance, a senator faced with the understandably daunting task of closing Utah’s large budget gap proposed making 12th grade optional in order to save the state around $60 million. Although we understand the magnitude of the financial pressures confronting Utah and other states, making the final year of high school nonobligatory sends the wrong message. It further devalues schooling in an age when public opinion has come to doubt the value of education qua education. Despite...