Alternative Economics 101; Defeated candidate has lots of ideas about money.
Byline: Bill Fortier COLUMN: South County Notebook When your loyal scribbler was covering the 7th Worcester District Democratic primary between Auburn Planning Board member Daniel Carpenter and Auburn resident Stephen Consilvio last year, it took about three seconds to realize that Mr. Consilvio wasn't your...

Question: who can vote?
This year's rollercoaster primary elections and the pending national election, with an anticipated record voter turnout, provide the perfect backdrop for an examination of the questions: Who can vote? And, Who will vote? We can examine this question through the NCSS themes of (II) Time, Continuity, and Change; (VII)...

Votes for the record book!
Since the 2008 primary elections began in January, several states have had record voter turnouts. The top graph shows states in which voters set records at the polls in 2008. The bottom graph shows how many people voted in those same states during the 2004 primaries. Study the graphs....

Votes for the record book!
Since the 2008 primary elections began in January, several states have had record voter turnouts. The top graph shows states in which voters set records at the polls in 2008. The bottom graph shows how many people voted in those same states during the 2004 primaries. Study the graphs....

Two running for vacant selectman's seat; Special election on primary day.
Byline: Bradford L. Miner NORTH BROOKFIELD - Jason M. Petraitis and Dane R. Falardeau were unsuccessful in previous attempts to win a seat on the Board of Selectmen, but when the polls close at 8 p.m. Tuesday, one of the two men will succeed veteran Selectman James...

OEA slimes Measure 65.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Oregon Education Association has every right to oppose Measure 65, the open primary initiative supported by a bipartisan lineup of political luminaries, including former Oregon secretaries of state Phil Keisling and Norma Paulus and former governors John Kitzhaber and Vic Atiyeh. ...

Delegate dilemmas and duties: although today's complex nominating process for delegates to the party conventions is not what the Founders envisioned, delegates still have a duty to uphold the Constitution.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the recently concluded primary season reminded us, America's quadrennial presidential nominating process, from the earliest primaries to the national party conventions, has become little more than a political sporting event of mind-numbing complexity. So Byzantine has America's procedure for nominating presidential candidates become that...

Mayor's race could hit $750,000 in combined campaign spending.
Byline: Edward Russo The Register-Guard CORRECTION(Ran July 10, 2008):Front Page: Jim Torrey spent $648,726 in his 1996 campaign for state Senate against Sen. Vicki Walker. A Wednesday article on fundraising in the current Eugene mayor's race incorrectly said Torrey's campaign spending in the 1996 mayor's race established...

Beaten into making a decision.
Byline: Tim McCaffrey COLUMN: THE BEATEN PATH: In the past, I had taken pride in being a member of a long-suffering minority. My choice to be in this minority group came at a certain price, but I knew that it was important for me to...

Whites May Exaggerate Black-Hispanic Tensions; Most blacks and Hispanics say relations between the two groups are good.
Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: Only 43% of white adults in the United States -- contrasted with 60% of Hispanics and 67% of blacks -- believe good relations exist between blacks and Hispanics. PRINCETON, NJ -- Fewer than half of white adults in the United States...