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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1990
Page
4
Government overhaul aimed at standardizing food labels will require calories from fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol to be listed, with few exceptions. The change, long delayed since 1973, seeks to curb misleading claims and enable direct, apples to apples comparisons across products.
A letter writer recounts appealing a 1989 real property tax reassessment and the county’s slow review. He describes 80 percent interim billing, a small late-1990 adjustment, then 20 percent billing and 1 percent monthly interest for delays. He mourns Sgt. Charles Freeman of the sheriff's department, arguing social losses equal personal loss and honoring a fallen friend.
The Aiken Standard invites signed readable letters with the writer’s mailing address. Brief, to the point correspondence is preferred. All letters may be edited or condensed. Send to The Editor, Aiken Standard, Box 456, Aiken SC 29802.
Ellen C. Priest is listed as business office manager and Daniel S. Holland as circulation director in the staff roster.
An opinion piece argues that health care costs must be funded by large federal outlays and private employer contributions. It critiques the Bipartisan Commission plan and AMA proposals, noting vast price tags, potential shifts in premiums, and the escalating burden on taxpayers, employers, and patients. It highlights long term care costs, Medicaid relaxations, and projected spending growth toward 1 trillion dollars by 1995 and 15 percent of GNP by 2000.
A reflective column surveys global and domestic attitudes toward hate after decades of conflict. It notes political changes in Eastern Europe, Soviet reforms under Gorbachev, and reduced militant bigotry, while recalling past horrors from Hitler to the KKK and questioning whether hate is truly retreating.
The narrator joins Captain Tim Hubbell and the Bolack family on a four state overland mission from Farmington New Mexico to visit remote Navajo backcountry. They stay at B-Square Ranch explore geological walls of petrified wood and a 60 acre lake harboring 60,000 waterfowl while meeting Andrew Nagen and Walter Kennedy. The trip aims to forge ties with yesterday amid a landscape of hogans and ancient rocks.
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