Date sent: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:43:33 +1200 From: Bill Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PEN-L:28849] Re: Question on US local government revenues To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: normal
> I know nothing about the US, but in New Zealand our centre-left > Labour-led government is proposing to give local government considerably > wider powers. Bill, Could you give us the lowdown on the recent election results. >From the paltry news we get here I understand Labour was just short of a majority and was expected to form a coalition with the Greens and one other party which I had not heard of. It is interesting. When NZ was doing its neoliberal dance, the media here gave it almost daily coverage of the triumph of the right. Now that Labour is back (more or less) in the saddle, we get one inch of copy in the national press, nothing in the local press, and complete silence on the electronic media. So what's up, Bill? Paul
