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  • WSJ: A National Telephone Tax? Governors are eyeing your Internet calls.

    12/22/2004 5:41:59 AM PST · by OESY · 25 replies · 883+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 22, 2004 | Editorial
    Much of the Washington press corps was preoccupied last week with the White House economic proposals, which are about allowing people to keep more of their money. Meanwhile, the National Governors Association was across town hosting a separate gathering that focused on just the opposite. The NGA -- along with its buddies at the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National League of Counties, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors -- desperately wants to tax Internet use. And they're hoping that Internet phone calls... will pave the way. You're forgiven if you thought this was...
  • NGA Winter Meeting to Open with Dialogue on Preparing America's Children to Learn

    02/23/2003 7:27:14 AM PST · by madfly · 14 replies · 280+ views
    National Governors Association ^ | Feb. 21, 2003 | John Blacksten, Christine LaPaille
    >Press Release NGA Winter Meeting to Open with Dialogue on Preparing America's Children to Learn WASHINGTON - The nation's governors will open their Winter Meeting with a dialogue on the importance of early childhood education. "Preparing America's Children" will be the focus of the first half of the opening plenary session. The session will begin with Rob Reiner and Craig Ramey outlining the research and key issues relating to early childhood education; then governors will discuss the challenges and opportunities of policy design and implementation. Rob Reiner, perhaps best known as an Emmy-winning actor and film director, currently chairs the...