• The panel's complex rules allow its members who were appointed by lawmakers or the governor to block an investigation.

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  • To finish the Penn State abuse scandal, the University or the Governor or somebody needs to conduct a highly visible, rigorous investigation, hang everyone involved out to dry, and clean house.

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  • "We are now looking at returning to the state capitol and requiring the senators to take a vote and have them declare who they're with the workers or the governor, " Mr. Miller said.

    WSJ: Wisconsin Democrats May Return Soon

  • If the Democrat-controlled legislature fails to approve a budget by the necessary two-thirds majority (always possible, given the size of the Republican minority), or if the governor decides to veto the budget, the previous year's spending levels will automatically continue.

    ECONOMIST: California

  • E-mails sent or received by the governor or 11 of his senior staff members will be posted to a searchable database within a week of transmission.

    ECONOMIST: Government transparency: The best disinfectant | The

  • Whether the eurozone ends up with 17 members or none, the governor seemed to be saying, is actually much less important than how and when the long-term imbalances at the root of the crisis get resolved.

    BBC: Sir Mervyn, the UK and the euro

  • There's no, it doesn't matter to me or you, who the Governor of Idaho or Wyoming is.

    NPR: Political Wrap: DeLay Primary, Domestic Wiretapping

  • In Peru, the staunchest defender of ALBA and Chavez is Hernan Fuentes, the regional president, or governor, of the province of Puno (please see map to see closeness with Cuzco and neighboring country, Bolivia).

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez moves into Peru

  • Evan Westrup, a spokesman for Brown, declined to comment on the audit or the scholarship program but said the governor will consider any bill reaching his desk.

    NPR: Calif. Families Want Chance At 9/11 Scholarships

  • Security is dealt with in a minute or two before the governor gets on to his shopping-list of requests a new road, schools to be built, a hospital needed.

    ECONOMIST: And now nation-building

  • The 33-year-old assailant, identified only as Nargis, arrived at the HQ on Monday looking for the police chief, the governor of Kabul or the head of the criminal investigation department.

    BBC: Policewoman who killed US aide in Kabul 'is Iranian'

  • The big question now is whether a spot on Fox will help or hurt the former Alaska governor if she decides to run for office in 2012.

    FORBES: Palin Goes To Fox

  • The law enforcement official said there was no evidence -- other than the governor's taped remarks -- that Jackson or others on his behalf ever approached the governor in an improper way.

    CNN: Impeachment of Illinois governor pushed

  • Doctors in Maine, for example, can't order a quarantine without approval from the governor or the courts.

    FORBES: OutFront

  • Obama said Tuesday that he had no contact with the governor or his office about the Senate seat.

    CNN: Illinois governor back at work after corruption arrest

  • It cannot be said that he governed but did not judge, because the governor or ruler judges between the people.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In fact, the Illinois Constitution says lawmakers only need cause, which Currie says could be that the governor betrayed the public trust or abused his authority.

    NPR: Ill. High Court Rejects Attempt To Remove Governor

  • There is even talk that Mr Romney might bolster his standing among Latinos by picking one as a running-mate Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida, say, or Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration politics

  • "It's apparent to us that the governor or someone on her staff had direct access to his personnel file, as well as his workers' comp file, and those are protected, " said John Cyr, executive director of the Alaska Public Safety Employees Association.

    CNN: Palin aides peeked into trooper's files, union says

  • Most of his work revolved around the annual budget process, a Beacon Hill ritual in which the governor, Republican or Democrat, presents a budget to the Massachusetts legislature, which quickly dismantles the plan and replaces it with its own agenda, overriding any eventual veto attempts by the governor.

    CNN: Will Romney lurch to the center?

  • Not to take anything away from Governor Walker, who certainly has his legions of supporters in the state as was proven last night, it is a very real possibility that the true margin of victory might belong to those who voted their anger with the process rather than their commitment to the Governor or objection to his challenger.

    FORBES: Requiem For A Recall: Money Likely Not Key To Walker Win

  • So, in a run-off, Mr Maluf might well lose to the vaguely leftish Mr Rossi or indeed to Mr Covas, if the governor can at last get his campaign moving, as some analysts think he may be doing.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • What will benefit consumers more, a successful reelection for President Obama, or Governor Romney winning the race?

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  • They'd talk for 45 seconds, an aide would tell him a congressman or governor was on the other line, and he'd abruptly ring off: "Daddy's gotta go!"

    WSJ: Romney Wins but Takes a Beating

  • He suggested that they might select a hospital officer or assistant governor to befriend the prisoner concerned and cultivate a relationship with him with a view to persuading him to end his protest.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • "CPI inflation is expected to remain above target, and at a somewhat higher level than expected three months ago, for a period of a year or so, " the Bank governor added, blaming a recent rise in global commodity prices.

    BBC: UK inflation rate in surprise October increase

  • "This stretches the bounds of decency, and we welcome the Governor's intention to reduce or eradicate this, " said the report.

    BBC: Cuts at Elmley prison 'can only increase tensions'

  • If convicted, Blagojevich will be the state's third governor jailed since 1971. (Or the fourth, if you count the 18 months served by Dan Walker, convicted of bank fraud and perjury in the late 1980s, long after he left office.) Since that time, 1, 000 political officials and businesspeople in the state have been convicted of corruption.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Wankel was told that a sister of the governor had died or fallen ill there were several versions but nobody believed this was the real reason for his absence.

    NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

  • You see it every campaign season: A Democratic candidate for Congress or governor or mayor or the state legislature or for president standing on a stage at a union hall seeking the votes of working people.

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