Is everything for sale
A satirical column argues that modern institutions and values are being sold off in a vast privatization sweep. It notes media outlets, sports teams, and even national principles moving toward cash, with references to Esquire and The Baltimore Sun. The piece critiques postmodern cynicism and the primacy of money in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Dubuque
Chicago
ABC
NBC
General Electric
Pentagon
Nuggets
Flames
Blast
Mariners
Oilers
Ken Kesey
Robert Stone
Current
Esquire
Walter O'Malley
Brooklyn Dodgers
Los Angeles
William Hamilton
Baltimore Sun
New York Times Service
Editorial urges smoothing tax reform windfalls in transition
The piece argues a Senate Finance Committee tax reform plan will have year to year revenue swings. It warns against using a one year windfall to avoid spending cuts and supports a trust fund approach to smooth declines. It calls for continuous outside scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Feds
Congress
Extradition treaty dispute tests U S Britain limits
The debate over revising the 1972 British American extradition treaty pits safety against politics. Senators argue changes remove political offense exemptions, risking easier pursuit of IRA suspects in the United States. President pressures Congress to ratify a pact allies rely on for mutual justice.
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Britain
U.S
Senate
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Reagan
United States
Belfast
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
America
U.S. Senate
Cedar Rapids tree care program a wartime restart story
The Cedar Rapids tree care effort began in the editor’s office after a Bartholomew and Associates plan urged city leaders to protect municipal trees. Under Parks Commissioners Stefan and Kosek the program grew with trucks, crews, and an ordinance, paused by war and revived postwar by Dick Jones, expanding to street trees and public education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Henry S Ely
Ed Stefan
Lansing
Mich
Ely
Harry Boyd
Boyd
Stefan
the Gazette
Bever Park
Charles Kosek
Donald K. Gardner
Bob Gardner
Chuck Kosek
Kosek
Dick Jones
Cedar Rapids Tree City Progress and Public Arbors
Richard K. Alman led a shift to mass municipal arboriculture in Cedar Rapids to combat Dutch elm disease. The program, funded by tax revenues, cut costs and hazards, saving lives and reducing storm damage over 45 years. Cedar Rapids aims to maintain recognition as Tree City, USA.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
S.A
Sanctuary movement endures amid asylum dispute and trials
A reader argues the sanctuary movement remains strong despite eight workers in Tucson being convicted, citing ongoing asylum cases, government actions by INS under Edwin Meese, and a looming appeals court review of Earl Carroll's sanctuary trial as evidence of a continuing fight for justice and American liberty.
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Tucson
Montgomery
Ala
Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S
Edwin Meese
INS
U.N. High Commissioner For Refugees
Honduras-Salvador
U.S. District Court of Appeals
Earl Carroll
Hands off care system at Linn County facility
A resident at Linn County Care Facility pleads for outsiders to stay away and oppose takeovers by St. Luke's. She stresses satisfaction with current staff and urges abandonment of plans by January 1, 1987. The letter is signed by Kathy Sue Stephan from 1860 County Home Rd., Marion.
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Linn County
St. Luke’s
Kathy Sue Stephan
County Home Rd
Marion
Cantaloupe vs Cantelope and Misspelled Words in Signs
An essay on misspelled words and homophones highlights cantaloupe vs cantelope in kitchen signs and dictionaries. It notes stationery versus stationary and complement versus compliment in restaurant reviews, with examples from a sign painter and an out of town critic.
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John Argotsinger
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New York
Bucks
Russell Baker
J.F. Hladky, Jr
Board of
Joe Hladky III
John Donnelly
John Robertson
Art Heusinkveld
C.R
Richard K. Alman
Anamosa
Conservation Board
State Park System of
Alaska
Sanctuary’ Lives
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carl Kane Gould
Argotsinger
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