Point to Ponder on County Government Charter Vote
Opinion urging Corry area taxpayers to decide weekend on voting yes for a council administrator to replace current system. Warns voters study issue, avoid emotion, notes potential payroll cuts and better representation. Says if not reform, what remains will likely disappoint. vote yes has significant merit.
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Corry
Dell Darling
Variable-rate mortgages gain traction in California housing push
San Francisco reports on VRMs as California banks like Bank of America begin statewide offerings. The program starts with a fixed first year, allows unlimited drops but caps increases at 2.5 percent over the loan life, and permits prepayment with no penalty. Wells Fargo already reduced its rate to 8.5 percent, while state adoption influences federal investigators reviewing mortgage costs. Bankers expect more competition and broader access to home loans despite ongoing inflation concerns.
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Washington
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Ohio
Illinois
Massachusettes
Virginia
Wisconsin
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Wells Fargo Bank
Oliver Jones
Mortgage Bankers Association
Jones
Tips on Writing From a Veteran Columnist Muttered Advice
A long antiquated layabout column offers humorous rules for writers. It mocks spelling hygiene and editing lore while lampooning famous mentors like William Allen White and James Thurber, and it pokes at craft standards with broad satire and zigzag anecdotes.
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Bill White
William Faulkner
White
James Thurber
Thurber
Columbus Dispatch
Maple Avenue
The
Kansas City Star
Ernest Hemingway
West Virginia
Cily
Bachi
John Keaster
Cambridge schools pioneer new programs amid unrest and reform
Cambridge, Massachusetts, schools evolved from Vietnam era protests into a broad reform effort. Since 1969 eight alternative secondary schools have opened, including the Cambridge Fundamental High School which focuses on basics, strict discipline, and structured study habits. The district mixes liberal experimentation with conservative control, aiming to raise reading, arithmetic, and eventually SAT scores.
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Mass
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vietnam
Thomas Smyth
Smyth
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University of Utah study finds students favor newspapers
A May 1976 survey of 190 journalism students at the University of Utah shows 60 percent read a daily newspaper regularly and 76 percent read Salt Lake Tribune. Readers cite time, price and subscription factors. most trust newspapers most, with 38 percent. Students seek more investigative reporting, local issue coverage, interpretation, and entertainment in dailies.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Tribune
B.C
UPI
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