Editorial toll hikes on area bridges spark opposition
The piece argues that raising tolls on the Hay Dumbarton and San Mateo bridges unfairly burdens motorists entering and leaving San Francisco. It notes the MTC settled on a 74 cent toll rise, with smaller increases for Dumbarton and San Mateo Hayward and cites dissent by Richard LaPointe. It urges rejecting curbs on free car pool hours and warns against forcing drivers into mass transit.
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San Mateo
San Francisco
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
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Bay Bridge
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State Toll Bridge Authority
Richard LaPointe
Ironic costs of thrift in Alameda water rates
Alameda County Water District plans a 14.6 percent rate hike amid cited lower demand. Critics argue the district punishes conservation by raising bills while urging lower usage, calling for a clear accounting of how much of the increase stems from reduced consumption and a pledge to reduce rates when normal usage returns.
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Alameda County
California Lottery Debate Faces Moral, Fiscal Scrutiny
In Sacramento officials debate lottery as tax substitute amid claims it exploits human weakness. Critics cite illegal gambling, high education costs, and mixed outcomes from New Jersey. Assemblyman Robert Cline’s plan advances to the Assembly, needing two thirds in both houses and voter approval.
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
New Jersey
Robert Cline
Northridge
Governmental Organization Committee
Assembly
California
Carter sketches welfare reform amid grim forecast
Countdown quotes Simmy Carter warning staff that international economic problems will bring his biggest headache in four years. He outlines broad welfare reform parameters, while warning that fall of consecration could see welfare recipients limited to small car engines in Cadillacs.
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Simmy Carter
Carter
Can Recycling Be a Big Money Maker
A 16 year charity experiment in Florida collected cans for a pound per can and sparked business profits. Reynolds Aluminum reports 112 million pounds recycled last year saving 43 million pounds of mined bauxite and 728 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Individual collectors nationwide earned hundreds to thousands by turning in cans, supporting youth programs and a Seattle Camp Fire Girls project aiding a kidney patient.
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Florida
Heynolds Alwaham Company
Chris Britton
Richard Antosiotti
Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Rock
Centralia
Wash
Fred Lavin
Loral
David Reynolds
Reynolds Aluminum
Atxnx
Reynolds
Pleasant It
Welter Goranson
Pleasant Hill
Chicago
B. Williams
West Theth Street
Camp Fire Girls
Seattle
Chris Harrison
James Kilpatrick Carter the tennis player
Washington column admires Jimmy Carter by paralleling his traits to tennis and softball. It cites Harry Kelly’s praise and a May memorandum about court etiquette, claiming Carter’s competitive nerve and strategic miscalls reveal his character.
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Connors Carter
Mr. Carter
Africa
Tip O'Neill
Plains
Carter
Harry Kelly
Chicago Tribune
Congress
Hugh Carter
Tiny nations running the U N A guest opinion by John Pinkerma
The guest opinion argues that nations with populations under 10 600 inhabitant s are gaining influence in the United Nations eroding Western power. It cites Elmer Plischke and Eleanor Roosevelt, warns of many new liberated nations joining the UN, and suggests reforms such as empowered Security Council voting, or withdrawal to form a new world body.
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U.N
Community of Nations
Ad Meath
Elmer Plischke
University of Maryland
Gulliver
Caived
American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research
United States
Eleanor Roosevelt
U.S
Micmstates
Te Liberation Movement
South Rica
Plischke
U.N Security Council
General Assembly
Bronei
California faces oil tanker clash over Alaska imports
California joins Washington in a high stakes dispute over supertankers carrying Alaskan North Slope oil. The state argues federal rules are insufficient to curb spills and smog, urging the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that limited state coastal regulation.
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Thomas D. Elias
U.S. Supreme Court
California
ARCO
Federal Distret
Supreme Court
Washington
Long Beach
Puget Sound
Air Resources Board
Tom Quinn
Anker
UCLA
Atty
Evelle J. Younger
District Court
Coast Guard
Younger
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