Ohio Medicaid costs rise. lawmakers rush to avert funding gap
May 1975 budget hearings show Ohio's Medicaid spending swelling from 373 million to nearly 500 million by fiscal 1976. A 127 million funding shortfall looms for 1977, risking loss of federal funds unless state money is found by November 15. Governor Rhodes urges a 2 percent departmental cut. legislature convenes briefly to address the crisis as critics blame policy choices for rising costs.
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Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Oakley Collins
Ironton
Collins
Brzezinski as a Potential U S Foreign Policy Architect
Ann Harrigan surveys Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University as a possible future secretary of state or NSC head. Brzezinski, a Kissinger like realist, argues the United States cannot sustain postwar power, urges global planning and planetary humanism, and notes a continental Soviet thrust while highlighting moral concerns over less developed nations.
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Anthony Harrigan
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Columbia University
Brzezinski
Jimmy Carter
U.S
Henry Kissinger
National Security Council
United States
Foreign Affairs
Dr. Kissinger
Soviet Union
Dr. B
Africa
Cuba
China
Indira Gandhi
India
Libya
Dr. Brzezinski
United Nations
Western Europe
Japan
USA
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Soviet Ussr
Heather's Sixth Birthday Letter From Grandfather
A personal note to Heather on turning six contrasts Mars exploration and politics with childhood milestone. The grandfather muses on future school days and a four week preschool term at Rap pahannock County Elementary, recounting Heather’s bus rides and energetic back-seat antics ending with a playful seat reassignment.
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Heather
Mars
Jimmy Carter
Carter
White House
Rappahannock County
A Birthday Letter to Heather Elaine of Hawthorn Farm
James Kilpatrick notes Heather Elaine’s growth from a preschooler to a six year old. He admires reading progress, phonics, swimming, and new skills like canoeing. Heather learns self confidence, poise, and independence while discovering her community and herself on her birthday.
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Shenandoah
Mars
Honey
Heather Elaine
Hawthorn Farm
Heathers
Billys
Karens
Susans
Douglas
Nicholson
Heather
Line Item Veto Ruling Draws Divided Ohio Reactions
In Columbus Ohio Governor Rhodes aides say a Supreme Court ruling limiting line item veto power is narrower than Democrats claim. The court held Rhodes could veto only appropriations bills while the school aid measure was not a spending bill. Senate Majority Leader Ocasek warns the ruling preserves legislative balance between branches.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Ohio Supreme Court
Thomas J. Moyer
Rhodes
School Foundation
Moyer
Senate
Oliver Ocasek
Akron
Supreme Court
Press Rights Versus Congressional Secrecy in Schorr Case
A debate on press freedom and Congress discipline centers on the Schorr Village Voice leak of a secret CIA report. The piece argues the risk to constitutional liberty is low, urging restraint and warning against a political test of First Amendment rights in this matter.
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House Ethics Committee
Intelligence Committee
Dan Schorr
CBS News
Village Voice
Congress
House
Otis Pike
Central Intelligence Agency
Schorr
CBS
John Crewdson
New York Times
New York
Supreme Court
Nebraska
Branzburg
Congressional Committee
Grand Jury
Ethics Committee
Laurence Stern
Columbia Journalism Review
Stern
Nora Ephron
Esquire
Leslie Stahl
National shrine urged for obsolete New Jersey postal facility
Bruce Humphrey argues for preserving a $120 million New Jersey post facility as a monument to mismanagement as 10,000 packages go to wrong addresses daily and a $3.5 million annual lease continues into the 21st century. He critiques public missteps and notes economic concerns, including VW Beetle decline and AMC losses.
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Bruce Humphrey
New Jersey Meadows
New
New Jersey
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American Motors Corp
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