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Ohio state Representative Charleta Tavares (D-Ohio) plans to run for Secretary of State next fall. Tavares is a 1996 Flemming Fellow.

Virginia state Senator Bill Mims (R-Va.), a 1995 Flemming Fellow, won a special election to the state Senate after serving in the Virginia House of Delegates. Mims’ accession to the Senate shifts control of the state Senate to the Republicans.

South Carolina state Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D-SC) was recently elected Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. Cobb-Hunter is a 1996 Flemming Fellow.

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the Women’s Studies Program of George Washington University will hold the Fifth Women’s Policy Research Conference June 12-13, 1998 in Washington, DC. The conference will bring together advocates, policymakers, business and labor leaders. For more information visit http://www.iwpr.org or call IWPR at 202-785-5100.

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities recently released Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends. The report’s assessment found widening disparities among income groups, despite the strong economic growth of recent years. For an abstract and link to this report, visit http://www.policy.com/issues/econ.html

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) makes its handbooks, policies and other materials available for free over the internet. Visit http://www.hudclips.org to view any of these 63,500 documents online or download them to a desktop computer.

  February 1998
  Vol. 6, No. 2
 
ALTERNATIVES

Alternatives is a publication of the Center for Policy Alternatives – a nonpartisan progressive public policy and leadership development center serving state legislators, state policy organizations, and state grassroots leaders. Alternatives is indexed in Urban Affairs Abstracts. ISSN #1070-3047

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