Is It Worth the Fremont Gravel Pit Dilemma
Fremont residents endure a quarray of issues from 2000-acre quarry operations along Alameda Creek. City neglect, safety concerns, tax breaks, and heavy truck traffic strain neighborhoods while jeopardizing Paseo Padre Parkway, BART, and flood control projects. City Council demands accountability and a thorough investigation into whether continued quarrying provides value.
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Fremont
Alameda Creek
Geoffrey Steel
Rhodes & Jamieson
Paseo Padre Parkway
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Four Year Battle Over Newark Council Salaries
Newark voters finally spoke after four years of debate over council pay. Councilman Balentine and Mayor Lewis led the move to cut salaries, but a legal provision bars current council members from voting on their own pay. The public now seeks to remove that constraint as they press for a salary reversal.
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Newark
Jim Balentine
Harry Lewis
Teal Grass protest sparks gun law critique in San Francisco
A San Francisco officer lights a marijuana cigarette to protest gun sale laws while denouncing the arrest risk for smoking a harmless plant. The scene highlights a broader clash of policy and personal conduct. Benjamin Franklin election to the International Swimming Hall of Fame is noted as a historic nod to enduring influence.
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San Francisco
Benjamin Franklin
International Swimming Hall of Fame
Open Housing Law a Hoax on Negroes Analysis
Russell Kirk argues open housing provisions worsen life for urban African Americans. He supports building privately owned homes in integrated or majority black districts and criticizes federal urban renewal as displacement. Johnson, Weaver, Kennedy favor public housing expansion. Authors urge private home building and reduced urban renewal.
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Innis
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and
Urban
Devel
T. George Harris
Look Magazine
George Romney
Kennedy
Federal Housing and Urban Development
Weaver & Co
Harris
Enola Gay and Hiroshima Fear and Dignity Loss
The narrator recalls leaving Okinawa for Hawaii as the Enola Gay bombed Hiroshima. He reflects on how the mushroom cloud transformed the world, linking it to gas chambers, barbed wire fences, slave labor, and mass graves. He fears death and living under a new fear-driven order.
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Hiroshima
Okinawa
Pacific
Atoll Hopping
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Mao Tsetung
Che Guevera
Tell It Like It Is Not The Truth
Washington column reflects on postwar fear and shifting verities as politicians claim to tell it like it is. The piece questions who truly knows what to say, naming Kennedy Nixon Rockefeller Romney Humphrey Johnson Wallace and others in a pursuit of authentic guidance.
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Promised Land
Elysian Fields
Nirvana
Washington
Bobby Kennedy
Dick Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
George Romney
Hubert H. Humphrey
Johnson
George Wallace
America
Appeasement Of Radicals Fails At Columbia University
Opinion piece denounces ignored warnings and weak responses to student aggression at Columbia University. It argues repeated appeasement fuels campus chaos, cites past protests by the Students for a Democratic Society and the Young Communist League, and warns the university risks losing its academic integrity.
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Columbia University
Students For A Democratic Society
Congress
Justice Department
SDS
Columbia
Young Communist League
SCS
YCL
Nicholas Murray Butler
Notable 1865 Lincoln Body Arrived in Springfield Town
Dates include 1865 Lincoln body returned to Springfield Illinois from Washington. 1939 Japanese raid on Chungking Ching burned congested downtown. 1943 Supreme Court barred enforcing racial and religious resale restrictions. 1965 San Salvador earthquake killed 43 and injured 300. Morley quote offered as thought for the day.
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Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Washington
Chungking Ching
Supreme Court
San Salvador
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Poverty Program
SNCC
Harold Stassen
Woody's World
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New York City
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United Preap International
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