As in much of Westchester, where certain enclaves have high property values and taxes, the population of almost 17,000 (about 5,900 in the village) is overwhelmingly white, although a federally mandated remedy, in the form of new affordable housing countywide, is in the works.
Americans don't mind mandates in the form of payroll taxes for Social Security or Medicare.
If we can use the struggles for women's suffrage and African-American's suffrage and equal access as a bell-weather, gays will likely succeed in getting a Constitutional mandate for rights in the form of an Amendment.
The feds have imposed a variety of costly mandates on states, in the form of study requirements and project labor agreements.
During her husband's presidency, Hillary Clinton supported federally mandated discrimination against gay people in the form of the Defense of Marriage Act and Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
In many counties such as Canada, Netherlands, Australia, and the UK, these integrated systems of care have been mandated by formal policy initiatives in the form of regional palliative care networks [ 5, 14, 15, 17].
The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance.
Man as the humanoid survivalist creature sadly gets in the way far too often and supplants those mandates with competitive brokerage in the form of income and power requisites that result in destructive vetting, leaving the virtuous, organic pursuit of legacy via one's deeds and works in the dust as agendas are chased at cost to self and others - and the recording of our of own history.
Motivated by recent government interventions in the form of mandated subsidies for new and existing generation capacity, I examine the impact of subsidized entry of electricity generation capacity on the performance of centralized capacity auctions.
