Voices of Robinson and Toll Policy From the Peoria Journal Star
Fifty years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, his courage helped spark America's civil rights era while a Clinton tolls plan prompts debate on interstate funding. The Peoria Journal Star urges Congress to hold a fair hearing on tolling and highway maintenance amid aging roads.
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Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
Dodger
Branch Rickey
America
Rate
Clinton
Congress
Peoria
Journal Star
Clinton “master of the miniscule” and the push to regulate
A critical column argues President Clinton widens regulatory reach by targeting everyday issues from alcohol ads onSesame Street to taxes on limited partnerships and emissions rules. It cites FCC licensing leverage, IRS tax plans, EPA highway funding tactics, and commerce clause overreach as patterns of expanding federal control while shrinking individual choice.
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Washington
Clinton
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Register
Congress
White House
Garrets
Internal Revenue Service
Steve Forbes
IRS
Environmental Protection Agency
Virginia
Maryland
EPA
Timothy Lynen
Cato Institute
Justice Department
South
Carolina
San Francisco
Parvel
Feds
Schools Fail to Forge Critical Thinkers in Cult-Heavy Era
A critique argues public schools waste time on social campaigns and role playing rather than teaching factual history and logical analysis. It warns that D A R E sex education and New Age ideas foster gullibility, emotional thinking, and vulnerability to cults and demagogues, urging critical examination of beliefs from kindergarten onward.
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California
D.A.R.E
George Washington
Pavlov
Court rulings affect Aiken TV viewing amid FCC rules
The Supreme Court upheld limits on adult programming and a must carry policy for local broadcasts, shaping Aiken viewers access. WIS remains available, while WAGT gains more NBC access, reducing Columbia signals and advertiser visibility. Wheeler Caney Farnham, longtime Du Pont and SRS supervisor, dies at 88 after 40 years at Savannah River Site. remembered as a skilled engineer and church leader in Aiken.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Aiken Area
America
Fred Cavanaugh
Ronnie Young
Intermedia
South Carolina
Charlie Condon
Supremeourt
Aiken
Columbia
NBC
Augusta
WAGT
State University
General Assembly
WIS
Aiken Cable
Wheeler Caney Farnham Wheeler
Caney Wheeler
The
du Pont Co
Savannah River
Bebbington Andea
Mr. Caney
Troy
N.Y
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
du Pont
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
St. Thaddeus
Stillhope
West Columbia
H. A. McClearen
Caney
Sue
Wheeler
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