for example, California’s widely emulated three-level higher education system. It gives $13,000 in state funding per undergraduate to students in the elite University of California system, which is disproportionately attended by children of the ...
In the 2012 election, 26 percent of the seats in the state’s congressional delegation changed hands due to increased competition in redrawn districts. Other states that have adopted redistricting reforms include Arizona, Idaho, Iowa and Washington. Another technique that moderates outcomes is allowi...
Here, you can explore the National Grove of State Trees (see if you can identify all 50!), the collection of Corinthian columns that once supported the U.S. Capitol Building, and even a nest where bald eagles are known to roost. Bus tip: More than likely your tour will begin at the...
After moving from Maryland to Florida in the third grade, I went from living in a state where I had a local Major League ball club to root for from April to October, to a state that only had Major League Baseball during two months of Spring Training. I did not know it at the time,...
Then Odell went through the country districts and said: “See what I have done for you. You ain’t got any more taxes to pay the State. Ain’t I a fine feller?” Once a farmer in Orange County asked him: “How did you do it, Ben?” “Dead easy,” he answered. “Whenever I ...
”by BuzzFeed’s Kevin Collier: “The state of Georgia has blocked all foreign internet traffic to its online voter registration site, BuzzFeed News has learned, a move that would do little to deter hackers but blocks absentee voters. The site, registertovote.sos.ga.gov, is accessible only ...
“A corporation is a legal person created by state statute that can be used as a fall guy, a servant, a good friend or a decoy,” the company’s website boasts. “A person you control… yet cannot be held accountable for its actions. Imagine the possibilities!” “In the U.S., (...
[threw] the same shield over the black man as over the white, over the humble as over the powerful.” In fact, one of the earliest applications of the law was by a group of independent Louisiana butchers who argued that a state-sanctioned twenty-five-year slaughterhouse monopoly violated ...
“We want to have a state championship at the end of the year like every other state does,” saidKenny Owens, DCSAA statewide special events coordinator of athletics. “With this type of structure, we’re able to give kids more exposure rather than the regular league championships.” ...
Secretary the newly created states but provided of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton the central government with little and Secretary of State Thomas Jeffer- power. This later gave way to a son worked out an agreement whereby stronger form of government, created the debts incurred by northern states...