Joshua Schank, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation and former transportation adviser for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, on how he thinks government will have changed 25 years from now. Read more public officials' predictions about what government will look like in 2037 below.
Source: CommonWealth Magazine | Massachusetts |
October 15, 2012
Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor who in 1991 started the unusual tradition of having regular, weekly meetings for political leaders to talk about issues and legislation as well as get to know each other.
The recording on a phone sex hotline that people heard when they tried to call a toll-free hotline to learn more about the meningitis outbreak in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott mistakenly gave out the wrong number, mixing up one of the digits.
Source: Los Angeles Times | California |
October 11, 2012
A California county official, talking about the state's renewable energy industry that's booming, in part, because of low-interest, government-guaranteed loans.
Source: McClatchy Newspapers | Danville, Va. |
October 10, 2012
Harold McKinney, Boyle County Judge-Executive in Danville, Ky., which is hosting the vice presidential debate Thursday. The town of 16,000 has won several honors, including being named one of the best, most beautiful small towns in America.
Ron Sims, a member of the Washington State University Board of Regents, who predicts that 25 years from now, K-12 education will become K-11 education. Read more public officials' predictions about what government will look like in 2037 below.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who thinks both are constitutional, says his "textualist" approach to interpreting the Constitution makes even the most controversial issues easy to resolve.
Fred Leeb, the former emergency financial manager for Pontiac, Mich., a financially distressed city that was essentially taken over by the state. Leeb proposes solving cities' economic problems by giving a few billion dollars to the country's top minds to collaborate on a monumental project -- if they agree to live and work in one of America's struggling cities.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer's advice for the Congressional staffer who was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault after a fight about a cellphone with actress Lindsay Lohan.
Dr. Susan Tolle, director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at the Oregon Health & Sciences University, on how word choice factors into the chance of success for a state-level movement focused on giving terminally ill patients more say in what medicine and medical procedures they want or don’t want.
Brooks Patterson, the Oakland County, Mich., executive, who's in a wheelchair after suffering several injuries from a car accident. He's seeking his fifth four-year term in November.
Andy Allison, the director of Arkansas' Medicaid program, which is launching an initiative aimed at taming runaway costs by offering doctors financial incentives to provide more efficient care.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer | South Carolina |
September 26, 2012
Gov. Nikki Haley, campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in South Carolina where suburban women disproportionately make up the sliver of undecided voters.