SEC Needs Teeth to Restore Faith After Corporate Scandals
The Detroit Free Press argues an empowered SEC with budget and staff is essential to audit integrity and investor trust. It notes the Enron and WorldCom fallout, resignations at the top, and calls for aggressive, well-funded watchdogs to hold firms to account.
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Enron Corp
WorldCom
Securities and Exchange Commission
Harvey Pitt
SEC
Wall Street
Congress
George W Bush
Bush
Detroit Free Press
Protect Our Borders and Haiti Refugee Policy
Editorial argues immigration law must be enforced evenly and calls for stronger Coast Guard and INS resources. It notes Haitians are detained while asylum seekers from other regions are released pending hearings and cites a Coast Guard interception of 187 refugees off Elliott Key as a turning point.
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Asia
South America
Caribbean
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Coast Guard
Elliott Key
United States
INS
Aiken Standard Masthead Names Publisher and Editors
The Aiken Standard lists Scott B. Hunter as Publisher and Jeffrey B. Wallace as Editor. Art Zappa serves as Advertising Director, with Phillip Yates as Production Director and David Boyd as Systems Manager.
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Scott B. Hunter
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Art Zappa
Wsangsis
Timothy E. O'Briant
Phillip Yates
Scot
The Next Deal طرحs Universal Charter School Reform
In 2000 Andrei Cherny proposed making every public school a charter school with parent choice and private or faith group providers. He argued charters would force competition, improve quality, and appeal to liberals and New Democrats, while debates on governance and accountability remained unresolved.
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Andrei Cherny
al Gore
Democratic Party
Cherny
Boards of Education
California
Distortion in Media Sparks Local Debate in Aiken
John Church of Aiken argues that ABC edited a program about his town to mislead viewers and distort reality. He warns that biased reporting shapes public opinion and votes and urges citizens to seek facts independently.
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ABC
Aiken
John Church
Social Security reform survives 2002 election wave
David John of the Heritage Foundation analyzes how personal retirement accounts survived a tough 2002 campaign. The piece notes candidates who supported reform fared better in elections, while opponents faced credibility losses as the issue reinvigorates the political debate and promises action in the new Congress.
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Senate
John Sununu
New Hampshire
Elizabeth Dole
North Carolina
Linday Graham
South Carolina
Norman Coleman
Minnesota
Saxby Chambliss
Georgia
John Cornyn
Texas
House
West Virginia
Shelley Moore Capito
Pennsylvania
Pat Toomey
John Kline
Kentucky
Anne Northup
Friends of Reform
House of Representatives
Mark Sanford
Bob Ehrlich
Maryland
Commere
Clinton
Paul Begala
James Carville
Dole
Erskine Bowles
Ison
Indiana
Chris Chocola
Chocola
George Gekas
Charles Stenholm
House Sociasecurity Subcommittee
Clay Shaw
Beacon
Moore Capito
Capito
Congress
Chambliss
Cornyn
Coleman
Graham
James Inhofe
Oklahoma
Tom Feeney
Florida
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