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Any hopes that Houston's sales tax decline was about to ease were dashed yesterday when the Texas Comptroller reported that
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The City and your pension plans' management are leading you down a path that will seriously impact your pensions for"
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Yesterday, the City posted more details about the proposed pension plan. The plan commits the City to pension payments in
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Turner's Bum's Rush on $20 Billion Pension Deal For the last month Sylvester Turner has been negotiating in secret
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Those of you have who were regular readers of my column know that I am not a fan of straight
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Fair warning: This post is going to get way off in the weeds of the complex math that defined benefit
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STORIES FROM ACROSS AMERICA ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTER MOST
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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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