Common Cause Magazine articles from June 1994

Common Cause Magazine archives from June 1994

Between the lines. (investigative journalism anecdotes) (Editorial)
June 22, 1994... One of my favorite things about Common Cause Magazine is the mix of ideas in each issue. Consider the contents of this one edition. "Home Inequity," by executive editor Vicki Kemper, takes a lively look at one of America's biggest and least...

Garbage in, golf course out. (recycling programs on US military bases)
June 22, 1994... There are incentives, and then there are... incentives. Take recycling, for example, which suddenly began to look attractive when Uncle Sam offered men and women in uniform rewards for recycling such as new golf courses, shooting ranges and...

Grading on a curve. (Scholastic Aptitude Tests and politics)
June 22, 1994... If it were framed as a word problem it would go something like this: If 75 percent of the students in State X, which spends M+1 to educate its students, take the same test as 5 percent of the most select students in State Y, which spends M - 1,...

The politics of mine-ing. (anti-environmentalism and the 'takings clause' movement)(includes related article)
June 22, 1994... In the overheated real estate market of the 1980s, few places were hotter than Kitsap County, Wash. A half-hour ferry ride across Puget Sound from Seattle, the county was becoming one of the most affluent markets in the continental United...

Home inequity: one of the biggest entitlement programs is not for the poor. (homeowner mortgage interest and property tax deductions) (Cover Story)
June 22, 1994... Beyond the exclusive development's entrance, with its carpet of purple pansies and a stand of young maple trees, down a winding road lined with a classic white fence, faux-antique street lamps, a bicycle path and more maple saplings, past the...

License to deal: how Uncle Sam helps weapons merchants arm the world. (includes related article)
June 22, 1994... The boxes are labeled "above-ground swimming pool" or "airconditioning equipment" and have innocuous sounding destinations like a ministry of eduction or a children's hospital in some other part of the world. What these boxes contain, however,...

PSAA: Common Cause 1994 Public Service Achievement Awards. (Joe L. Reed, Clara Link, S. Garry Oniki, Stewart Udall, and Gene Russianoff)
June 22, 1994... When Joe Reed was a young teacher, Alabama's schools were segregated. Racism and discrimination reigned at every level of government. Voting rights didn't exist. And the notion of an African-American rising through the ranks of the Democratic...

In Common: keeping up the pressure for reform. (campaign financing legislation lobbying by Common Cause)
June 22, 1994... IN MAY CC LAUNCHED its 90 Day Countdown Campaign, a grassroots lobbying effort designed to ensure passage, before Congress adjourns for the year, of three vital reform and government accountability issues: campaign finance reform, lobbying...

House Democrats must act on reform now. (campaign financing legislation lobbying by Common Cause) (Editorial)
June 22, 1994... DURING THE 1992 campaigns, House Democratic leaders and most current House Democratic members made a public commitment to their constituents to clean up the campaign finance system in Washington in this Congress. That public commitment has...