Date: March 31st, 2005

Wolfowitz unanimously elected World Bank head

31 March, 2005 (16:00) | Uncategorized |

Paul Wolfowitz has been elected unanimously:
 
As expected, the 24 executive directors of the World Bank unanimously voted Thursday to elect Paul Wolfowitz president.
 

 
This follows a week of intensive personal diplomacy, including encouraging statements such as these:
 
“I understand that I am, to put it mildly, a controversial figure,” he said. “But I hope that, as [...]

Urban taxation: Ready, fire, aim

31 March, 2005 (09:32) | Uncategorized |

< ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o /> “All politics is local politics.” 
— Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill, who knew a thing or two
 
What makes a city work?  How much tax will the market bear?
 
In a spectacularly delicious irony of juxtaposition, the Boston Globe recently ran, on the same day, two stories of state-capital cities going in opposite [...]