Hillary Rodham Clinton continued her focus on economic issues today as she called for a new formula to calculate the amount of money New York receives from the federal government for Medicaid expenditures.
Mark Webber may have failed to win a race so far this year for his Red Bull team, but he has done some great racing and just this week wrote a column for the BBC F1 Web site in which he called for a gutsier formula on the track.
This year, Republican candidates have called for a cutback in this formula, which has had bipartisan support for decades, saying they would give block grants to states and local districts while repealing federal requirements.
Mr. Arafat's feat was all the more impressive because the Bush administration, after initially trying to stay clear of the Middle East, tilted toward the Palestinians last fall, when President Bush called for a "state of Palestine" -- a formula Washington had hitherto avoided.
That was the case in New York this week, when Justice Leland DeGrasse of State Supreme Court in Manhattan in a decision called for a wholesale revamping of the formulas that the state uses to allocate education money.
The official formula always called for a united, undivided Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, even though most Israelis know that on the ground, Jerusalem is a segregated city.
The VEBA said the formula, under its interpretation, called for a much higher price.
Some MPs have called for a minimum of 7.5% of the total income to be distributed to the grassroots, while others have called for a new funding formula that disaggregates the distribution of cash from the three-year cycle of TV deals to provide greater certainty.
The Welsh Language Society ran a fierce picketing campaign after the 2010 deal, and is calling for a statutory funding formula for S4C.
But if towns met their housing obligations directly by creating the number of affordable units called for under a state formula, they could control their own development.
