House Focused On Social Bills While Tax Rebates Stall
Rep Forest Hopkins writes that last week’s action in the state House centered on social and consumer bills such as anti pornography measures open meetings and debtor protections while ignoring key fiscal issues including rebates of excess tax funds and highway maintenance funding. The anti pornography bill advanced after a close vote and amendments to empower prosecutions, with debates highlighting county level enforcement and opposition contentions about censorship.
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Forest Hopkins
Journal
State House
State Agriculture Department
House
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Joseph Rhodes
Dallegheny
Fragmented House debates on bills and ethics reform
The House debated a Sunshine Bill removing tax action flaws and requiring open sessions while approving a consumer protection bill against unethical debt collectors. Other measures included regulating horse imports to ban swamp disease, flexible home mortgage ceilings, welfare reforms, and funding for fire and police equipment. Erie legislators met in Senator Orlando's office to plan upcoming meetings and an appointment with Secretary Wilcox.
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GOP
Shapp
Sherman Hill
Frank Salvatore
Rep
Stahl
Robert Davis
Erie County
Orlando
Wilcox
Soldiers and Sailors Home
Bugging a flagpole sitter in Corry NY
The Corry Evening Journal recalls a flagpole sitter Wilfred with comic quips about his career. His wife’s messages, pigeons, and lunch lettuce appear in a brash exchange as reporters joke about long endurance, looming deadlines, and readers’ taunts.
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New York
Wilfred
Coney Island
World Trade Center
Aboard My Angelina Lauro Caribbean Cruise Memoir
A narrator details a Caribbean voyage aboard the 24,000 ton liner Angelina Lauro, from Nassau to San Juan and St Thomas. He notes Italian crew, casino nights, encounters with fellow passengers, and reflections on travel romance, with stops at Dorado Beach and El San Juan, finishing with a mood of longing for warm seas and costlier adventures.
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Angelina Lauro
Caribbean
Doe’s financial drift from S and L services in 1980s
A man reviews an S and L statement showing funds moved to high yield savings for retirement and education while 8 percent and 6 percent accounts drive family budgets. He notes wife’s $250 food purchases via card, tax prep refunds rise, and a tempting cash dispenser offer prompts a $50 withdrawal amid widespread office dispensers in 1980.
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New York
Federal
Savings and Loan Associations
Harris Friedman
S&ls
S&l
John Doe
S&l Association
Doe
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Hank
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