Do you know what your kids are listening to this week
The Peebles column laments 1980s pop culture shifting away from old classics. It notes U S News & World Report cover imagery and articles hinting teens ignore Handel era music. The writer admits feeling out of date, missing songs like Heartbreak Hotel and Blue Suede Shoes, and questions a Los Angeles teen’s grim view that life ends at twenty.
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U.S. News & World Report
Prince
Madonna
Heartbreak Hotel
Lonely Street
Los Angeles
Cyndi Lauper
Voters Eye Local Issues Involving Property and Water Lateral Costs
The article outlines Prop 4 to redirect permanent school fund land sale proceeds to buy land, aiming to boost investment value and potentially school funding, with liquidity concerns. Prop 3 would allow municipalities to finance water laterals on private property with five year repay terms, city lien, and potential abuse fears, contrasting past sewer line provisions. Information on voting is available via county clerks and the secretary of state, urging voters to make informed choices.
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Secretary of State
Crime Line funds reward for two local burglaries
Brownfield Crime Line Information Inc offers 300 dollars for tips leading to arrest and indictment in two cases. A 1983 black Oldsmobile Cutlass parked at 408 West Tate was burglarized on Friday 10 18 85 between 5 15 p.m. and 6 20 p.m. A maroon billfold and cash were taken. The second burglary at Higginbotham Bartlett Lumber at 115 North 6th Street occurred 6 30 a.m. on 10 21 85 to 7 30 a.m. on 10 22 85 through a window. an undetermined amount of change was taken.
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Brownfield Crime Line Information Inc
West Tate
Higginbotham-Bartlett Lumber
North 6Th Street
Dancing washing machine stalls at side-show tango
A narrator in San Diego describes a dancing washing machine that cannot dance beyond a tango due to imbalance. He rigs a heavy typewriter to slow it to a waltz, recalls Willie McGee at bat, and notes appliances as rare luxuries while joking about modern gear and cultural views.
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St. Louis
Willie McGee
New Guinea
Parents urged to monitor homework over mandatory tutoring
Letter argues against mandatory tutoring and questions parent conference attendance while asserting homework is parent responsibility through middle school. It then pivots to oppose Proposition One as a land and water control bill expanding taxes, districts with eminent domain, and government power, urging a No vote and warning of a fiscal blank check.
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John C. Lenghoff
Box
Yoakum
Texas
DeWitt County
Republican Party
TSTA urges parents to inspect local schools in Texas
The Texas State Teachers Association urges parents to visit schools, ask questions of staff, and assess classroom conditions and resources. A starter checklist covers class size, textbooks, library access, teaching aids, and parental involvement to promote quality education for every child.
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Texas State Teachers Association
Teachers of
Texas
TSTA
PTA
Cutting is only way to reduce deficit
A Canyon Sunday News opinion argues federal waste drives the deficit, urging steep across-the-board cuts. It targets pensions for ex presidents, UN funding, education and welfare for illegal aliens, Export-Import Bank loans, community block grants, urban development grants, legal services, foreign aid, mass transit subsidies, and death row costs, urging tax-free reforms and salary cuts for officials to balance the budget.
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Ann Brown
Canyon Sunday News
Reagan
John Q
United Nations
America
U.S
Fortune Magazine
Boeing
General Electric
Westinghouse
Dallas
Urban Development Action
Hyatt Corporation
Sherwin Williams
General Motors
National Institute For Education
Jesse Jackson
U.S Study Association
Feds
Smallyé Business Administration
Legal Services Corp
Airlines
Metrorail
Desert Sun Airlines
Blythe
Calif
Los Angeles
Miami
Texas
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