Alameda County Police Fire Tax Sparks Debate
Alameda County Supervisor Fred Cooper urges creating special taxing districts in unincorporated areas like Castro Valley San Lorenzo Cherryland Ashland and Dublin to fund police and fire protection. He questions equity of countywide costs for hospital, prosecutors, jail, probation and other services and suggests fairness across communities.
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Massachusetts Creative Education Projects Criticized
James Kilpatrick reports on the Bulletin for Basic Education describing Massachusetts IT projects in public schools. He notes lavish spending, odd aims like Self-Direction Through Group Dynamics, Arts for Intergroup Relations Education, and Project Adventure, with many projects deemed minimally productive and larded with bureaucratic jargon.
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Bulletin of the Council For Basic Educcation
Massachusetty
Mortimer Smith
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Massuaheli Sells
Danvers
Dynam
State Department of Education
Medford
Billerica
Ayhal
Smith
Laa
Hamilton
ALBA
Case Against State Paid Good Friday Worship
The piece argues against government workers being paid for Good Friday and similar holy days. It cites Alameda County Judge Robe rt Bostick ruling against state subsidies, mentions a state appeals court reversal, and notes ongoing appeals to the state Supreme Court. It frames the issue as constitutional separation of church and state, stressing taxpayers' cost and workers’ duty to work while worship remains personal.
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Shelley Mandel
Berkeley
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Mandel
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Boslick
Tony
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Allnlleys
State Supreme Court
Aiud
Lea McCarthy
San Francisco
McCarthy
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Gaesar
Owen
Nixon image abroad tarnished by Watergate fallout
Washington dispatch notes foreign leaders view Nixon’s image as damaged but not yet decisive for policy. Kissinger expeditions and summit plans with Brezhnev, Pompidou and Brandt shape a responsive, cautious diplomacy amid domestic upheaval.
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Willy Brandt
Japan
Henry A. Rissinger
Modena
Kissinger
Moscow
Paris
Hanoi
le Date
Vietnam
Georges Pompident
Our shoddy architecture and the modernist critique
Russell Kirk critiques modern architecture for wasting wealth and eroding culture. He cites Britain's urban planning harms, economic fallacies of scientific modernism, and Detroit’s HUD related housing decay. He praises traditional styles as humane options amid costly, impersonal high blocks. He argues ugliness breeds ugliness and calls for bold judgment in U S architecture.
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University of Detroit
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HUD
Buw
Kissinger Paris talks loom over Vietnam war debate
In a reflective column Holmes Alexander weighs Kissinger’s mid May Paris return amid the Vietnam ceasefire lull since January 27. He questions the war’s causes and lasting peace, cites Henry and Freeman on war ideas, and notes Rogers’s remark on converging interests as a possible path to peace.
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