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If you have not watched Ted Oberg's story on the $35 million contract for Harvey "outreach services" Sylvester Turner
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The more I study the Rebuild Houston program, the more apparent it becomes that the City’s administration of the program
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In 2006, I chaired a regional task force that made recommendations on redrawing evacuation plans after the disastrous Hurricane
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Early voting on the City's proposition A, which would reauthorize the failed Rebuild Houston program, begins tomorrow. Since no one
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There is a little-discussed provision in Proposition A which will commit Houston taxpayers to the Rebuild Houston debacle through 2031,
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I spoke to someone last night who had attended the City’s townhall meeting in Kingwood on the propositions on the
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American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy.
Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic, why the country is trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare, and why it is destroying the shared sense of fairness and legitimacy on which democracy depends.
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