[snip] “The murder rate in CHA developments has nearly doubled since 1999, the year before the city launched its Plan for Transformation,” report Brian Rogal and Beauty Turner in the Chicago Reporter (July/August). One resident says, “It’s like they took all the gangs and mixed them up.”
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[snip] Neither Bush nor Kerry has a plan to reduce the federal deficit, but Bush falsely claims he does. That according to the Cato Institute’s William Niskanen, writing in a September 1 op-ed piece. “President Bush’s budget for FY 2005 projects that the deficit will decline by about half by FY 2009, but this budget is very misleading. His budget includes no funds for the military and reconstruction activities in Afghanistan and Iraq. No funds for the recent broadening of Medicare to cover obesity therapies. And no increase in nominal nondefense discretionary spending over the next five years.”
[snip] Conservationists adapt to climate change. “Shifting of [species’] range boundaries because of warming has already taken place during the past 30 to 70 years,” writes Michael Totten of Conservation International in its publication “Conservation Front Lines” (Summer). “Expanding our conservation strategies to meet that challenge is now central to CI’s mission, and we believe this will significantly reduce the extinction risk associated with global warming.”
