Editorial Page In Our Opinion on building costs and unions
Millions of would be homeowners face a squeeze from high land prices rising construction costs and steep interest rates. The piece discusses Taft-Hartley loopholes favoring construction unions and endorses Rep. Eshleman HR 12634 to close them. It argues reforms would help reduce costs for workers who also need homes.
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Edwin Eshleham
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Virginia Payette
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Viewpoint: Signs Point to Recession and Inflation Slowdown
Virginia Payette surveys economic unease as signs point toward a slowing economy. job markets falter with hiring down and loan costs rising while inflation cools and luxury spending contracts. Consumers cut back on big purchases and households adjust to scarce money and higher taxes.
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Ois
Nixon
Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Night Details Leak
The Washington column purports to reveal new details about the July Chappaquiddick incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne. It claims Kennedy drove to Dyke Road after a cookout, struggled to rescue Kopechne, and that intimates suggest his panic had political motives.
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Washington
John F
Kennedy
Dyke Road
Ted Kennedy
Mary Jo Kopechne
Dyke Bridge
Poncha Pond
Sen. Kennedy
Mary Jo
Martha's Vineyard
Chappaquiddick Island
Edgartown Ferry
JFK
Bass Family
Hyannis Port
Chappaquiddick
Teddy
Kennedy's Guilt Poolside Drowning Crisis Unfolds
In a sequence of choices and cover actions, Ted Kennedy faced a credibility gap after Mary Jo Kopechne's body was found in Poncha Pond. He enlisted cousin Gargan and Paul Markham to handle the incident while he returned to the cottage and later filed statements with police.
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Poncha Pond
Joe Gargan
Gargan
Mary Jo
Paul Markham
U.S
Massachusetts
Markham
Kennedy
Edgartown
Hyarnis Port
Sen
Ted Kennedy
Democratic Party
Rotten Jokes Open Great Rotten Joke Contest In Washington
The column announces The Great Rotten Joke Contest with entries from readers. It highlights humor about librarians buses and flounders and notes no prizes, only name and thanks in print, as readers submit their groaners to the newspaper.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Eader Herman H. Diers Sr
Mr. Diers
Diers
Flounder
Self-Help Focus Shifts for OEO Under New CEO
Washington In the wake of cuts to Job Corps and Head Start the Office of Economic Opportunity moves toward community action reforms. Donald Rumsfeld as CEO chief signals changes to legal services tied to CAPs while aiming for broader poor‑centered self‑help and locally led programs to fight poverty more effectively.
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NEA Washington
Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Donald Rumsfeld
Ane
Edith Green
Oregon
Green
OEO
Peprems
Loyola’s Frame For A Hundred Years Of Education
Chicago columnist Russell Kirk profiles Loyola University on its centennial. He highlights Father James T Mertz 86 still lecturing and shaping students noting his humor devotion and legacy in Mertz Hall and Madonna della Strada chapel reinforcing church connected universities as enduring centers of truth and humane vigor in troubled times.
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Russell Kirk
Chicago
Loyola University
Loyola
Behemoth State University
James T Mertz
Father Mertz
Halley
Ola
Madonna Della Strada
Lake Michigan
Lola
Father Ertz
Mertz
Community voices question library plans and housing access
Readers critique library construction claims at St Francis College and object to restricted housing for families with children. The letters accuse officials of exaggerated fundraising links and say local landlords decline renting to families, urging clearer community support and affordable housing.
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St. Francis College
Onday
James A. Lamontagne
Boston
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