Over the past few weeks, New York City residents have received thousands of flyers paid for by Mayor Bloomberg advocating his proposal for “nonpartisan” elections. Most democrats and many good-government groups oppose the measure, which would eliminate party primaries in local elections.
Unprepared and Over There
David Rieff journalist and author A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster; October 2003) on the "mess" in Bagdhad and how it got that way
More Deadly Than Homicide
Kay Redfield Jamison Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (Knopf, 2000) explains the riddle of suicide
Non-Partisan Review
Dan Cantor Executive director of the Working Families Party on why the non-partisan elections are a bad idea and Steven Malanga Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and contributing editor of City Journal on why conservatives should oppose non-partisan election and J. Phillip Thompson Assoc. Professor of Urban Studies at M.I.T. ...
The Kentucky Derby
Chris Cilliza Reporter for Roll Call gives a round-up of the gubernatorial and mayoral elections across the country including Kentucky and Louisiana
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