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Tomás Jiménez in Las Vegas Sun | 'English-Only Rule on Bus Relaxed'

Communications — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:13:00 -0500

New America in the News:

English-Only Rule on Bus Relaxed; Compromise seen as model for dealing with immigration (Las Vegas Sun)

...To Tomas Jimenez, an Irvine fellow at the New America Foundation who studies immigration and assimilation, the policies, ordinances and laws seen across the nation are “all partially motivated by people who are disgruntled by a change in culture.” ...

Sherle Schwenninger in Las Vegas Sun | 'Fix the economy, but how?'

Communications — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:56:00 -0500

New America in the News:
Fix the economy, but how? (Las Vegas Sun)

As the partisan narratives emerge in Washington, Sherle Schwenninger at the New American Foundation, a Washington think tank, says they won’t work because the national downturn is more than a temporary blip. Schwenninger thinks the economy needs to be weaned from its dependence on consumer spending in favor of government infrastructure projects that could grow the economy. He is pushing to give cash to the states to modernize airports, fix roads or build electrical transmission lines, which Nevada needs to do to carry solar power across the region. ...

Steve Clemons in Las Vegas Sun on Sen. Clinton as Majority Leader

Communications — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:56:00 -0500

New America in the News:

WASHINGTON - Sen. Harry Reid won his party's support as Senate Majority Leader this week, but suggestions persist in Washington that Sen. Hillary Clinton might be in line for his job down the road.

It all started when a think-tank blogger posted a well-sourced story claiming that Reid had offered Clinton the majority leadership position for 2008 in exchange for her not running for president.

Reid denies the story as an "urban legend." Clinton said Thursday it has "no basis."

Yet what swirled as a rumor has become so enticing to some that it won't go away. They love the idea of Clinton one day running the Senate and easing out of the presidential contest for a more electable candidate...

"It's sort of become a narrative that's percolating around," said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and who first broke the story in August on his blog thewashingtonnote.com.

Clemons, a fan of Reid, doesn't necessarily support swapping the Nevadan for the New Yorker in 2008. He certainly isn't promoting it. But when a prominent Democratic fundraiser leaked details about the alleged offer, he put it out there.

Speculation soon followed in newspapers from Los Angeles to London. One journalist mused that the trade-off could happen as soon as this month if Democrats took the Senate on Nov. 7, which they did...

Clemons admits that after watching Reid work this past week after Democrats swept to power in Congress, it is difficult to imagine the new majority leader handing off his gig in a couple of years.

"It looks like he's having a good time," Clemons said. "Why would he give that up?"

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