rk under the rules set up while in office,'' he says, referring to a daycare business he started after serving as governor.Alexander supports tax reform that includes cutting rates on income, capital gains, and inheritance, while keeping deductions for charitable donations and home mortgages. He weighs in on the flattax debate by calling it ''a nutty idea in the Jerry Brown tradition.''Education is one of the cornerstones of his platform. Alexander draws on his experience as University of Tennessee president and US secretary of education when he calls for school choice and privatization. He proposes to close the Education Department he once led.But Alexander's overarching message is the need to reduce the power of the federal government. Though he says he opposes abortion and gun control, his belief that states should address these issues is so strong that he would not support federal legislation on them. ''We know what to do,'' he says of local politicians, and referring to the name of his newest book.Alexander
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The North Face Women's Vests rochoice supporters are funding television and radio ads in Massachusetts and Louisiana to pressure Democratic Sens. Edward Kennedy and Mary Landrieu, who are expected to be key opponents in the Senate debate. In an oped in Sunday's Washington Post, the Rev. Theodore McCarrick, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, noted that many of the students in the District's 29 parochial schools are not Catholic, and that vouchers will help all children.A key new player in this year's voucher debate is the city's Democratic mayor, Anthony Williams, who testified for the voucher program in the House and is lobbying hard in the Senate.But Joe Madison, the Black Eagle, Washington's top talkshow host, says the vast majority of callers who listen to our show are opposed to the mayor and to vouchers.New Year predictions are fraught with danger for the columnist in this age when everything is preserved for posterity on the Internet. What may seem to the reader prescient in January could by December be pretty lame.So here, t
Ugg Boots Knightsbridge nd her family wrote us a wonderful letter, he says. They were quite clear that our intervention saved her life.* Send comments to: claytonmcsps.comThey are concerned about the budget turmoil in Washington and signs that the economy may slow if the central bank doesn't nudge it along by lowering the cost of borrowing.Today, Mr. Greenspan convenes the seventh of the eight gatherings each year of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Once again, they will take stock of the American economy and determine whether to push down interest rates.Most experts predict the Fed won't drop rates just yet.''A waitandsee attitude prevails at the Federal Reserve,'' says Sung Won Sohn, chief economist of Minneapolisbased Norwest Corporation, a national mortgage and financial services firm.Though he strongly supports efforts to reach a balanced budget, the Fed chairman has tried to remain politically neutral in the brinkmanship going on between the Clinton administration and Congress over the 1996 budget. Tinkering with monetar
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