The mayor risks taking political hits on his budget plan for no additional police hiring, but his proposal is right for these tough times and it helps push the discussion back to more important issues about our police.
A survey of our assets and their funding shows that we do not have a clear strategy and some key programs are being defunded. Here's a wake-up call about this most critical sector of our modern global economy.
First, the president talks over brunch to big donors. Then he stops at the Paramount, where sports legends Lenny Wilkens and Bill Russell also appear.
Does a proposal really help the people, or just score political points? When this trusty standard is applied to Obama's jobs bill and Seattle's car-tabs measure, both flunk the test.
No matter what you say about the causes of the deficit (and the president is right on that score), there is no escaping the new reality of government contraction that will affect everyone, including Indian tribes.
