Predictably, both reforms have become ensnared in litigation: a lawsuit filed by San Jose's police union reached court on July 22nd.On May 22nd Carl DeMaio, a Republican congressional candidate and driving force behind San Diego's reforms, convened a group of like-minded souls to kick-start an effort to reform state pensions.
In 2003, a judge ordered the department to institute reforms after a group of officers, nicknamed the Riders, were accused of planting drug evidence on suspects in East Oakland.
In May, Robert Wright, the ministry official in charge of the reforms, told a group of insurers and their lawyers that they "were pushing at an open door as far as government is concerned.
Most of the others were released, but a Swiss man is still being held.Moving up the agendaBarack Obama stepped up his efforts on health-care reform, telling a group of senators that this summer was a "make or break period" for passing legislation.
There are certainly some disagreements that we have with the teachers' unions, but there's a real growing interest in education reform amongst a group of Democrats as well, and I think you're only going to see that increase as time goes on.
Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, Dutch Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, Protestant church in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition organized in the Netherlands in 1892 through a merger of the Christian Reformed Church and a group of Reformed churches that were followers of Abraham Kuyper (1837 1920), a Dutch theologian and statesman.
After the government announced the agricultural reforms in April, a group of Egyptians in the United States and Saudi Arabia said they would set up a joint company whose goal would be to start a project for "self-sufficiency" in wheat production in Egypt.
Last week's speech by Mitt Romney, in which he presented his education reform plan to a group of Latino leaders in Washington, drew attention mainly because he criticized teachers' unions and endorsed private school vouchers.
Nigeria's unexpected chance Unintended consequences Tremble, Medellin, tremble ReprintsThe constitutional reform, designed by a group of academics and politicians, was nursed through the Knesset by the late Yitzhak Rabin (with Mr Netanyahu, then a backbencher, defying his Likud party's whip in order to support it).
The comments come the day after Mr Obama backed comprehensive immigration reform, and after a group of senators unveiled a similar plan on Monday.
