Augusta Missouri benefits from taxless town model
The Augusta Missouri case shows a year without property tax and a voluntary stop to the business tax due to conflict concerns. A river land grant and soybean profits funded this shift, sparking mixed views on saving versus spending while locals cite job losses and price declines. The piece contrasts with East Germany’s identity policy and German national sentiment under the GDR.
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Gretna
Augusta
Missouri
Ole
St. Louis
Not Right Approach Faces Push to Elect Utilities Regulator
A Fairfax rally urged Governor Mills Godwin to call a special session to abolish the State Corporation Commission and create an elected utilities regulator. Senator Wad dell led the call, arguing for popular SCC member election, a move opposed as risky for consumers and utilities alike.
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Fairfax
Mills B. Godwin, Jr
General Assembly
Legislative Branch
State Corporation Commission
Consumers For Fair Utilities
SCC
Charles L. Waddell
Loudon-Fairfax
Virginia Scc
Godwin
Assembly
Politicians Make Poor Moralists in Senate Hearings
In Washington the U S Senate faced a repeat risk of stalemate as it debated the Arab boycott and Jackson Amendment linked to Israel. Morning testimony showed Senators Church and Stevenson reacting cautiously amid questions of trade partners and policy since 1948.
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Washington, D.C
U.S. Senate
Jackson
Israel
Church and Stevenson
Ford
U.S
Egypt
Bureaucracy at the bedside in rural Oklahoma hospitals
A Oklahoma reader report describes how Medicare and Medicaid rules force small rural hospitals to implement costly Utilization Review plans. Doctors warn the new requirements, effective February 1, overwhelm stretched staffs and threaten patient care, with clinics from Waynoka to Woodward facing layoffs and closures.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Enid
Boondocks
Walter Reed
Waynoka
Woodward
Laverne
Cherokee
Buffalo
Mooreland
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
B. D. Dotter
Okeene
Watonga
Fairview
Alva
Okla
America
Senate Leader Mansfield criticizes Cambodian aid policy
Wall Street Journal quotes Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield as tired of images of Indochinese suffering caused by American arms in countries with no vital U.S. stake. The piece questions U.S. aid to Cambodia, cites The New York Times, and notes debate on who should decide Cambodia's fate. It also veers into reflections on U.S. vice presidency selection and a light jab at Bicentennial nostalgia.
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Senate
Mike Mansfield
Cambodia
Senator Mansfield
New York Times
U.S. Congress
North Vietnam
Capitol Hill
Times Square
Postal Unions Bring Chaos To Service, Ralph de Toledano Warns
Ralph de Toledano cites the Public Service Research Council release dated February 20 arguing postal unions destroy mail service through compulsory collective bargaining. He notes rising labor costs, high benefits, misdirected mail due to unreadable ZIP handling, and forecasts rate hikes to 40 cents by 1984 while urging against universal government unionism.
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Ralph de Toledano
Washington
Public Service Research Council
PSRC
United States
Postmasters General
Postal Service
Ford
Post Office
Congress
General Accounting Office
Federal
The Clairvoyant Pat Moynihan One of Moynihan’s Claims
William F Buckley Jr profiles Daniel Patrick Moynihan, noting his long restraint as ambassador and his later reform stance as a professor. He criticizes United Nations excess and Algerian leadership, quoting Moynihan’s fears of liberty fading worldwide and pondering signs of a coming Dark Age.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Social Democrat
Albert Jay Nock
Moynihan
India
Commission
United States
Rockefeller
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Germany
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Rostok
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Kuwait Investment Company
Hitler
American Airways
Okeene Hospital
Wall Street Journal
Capital Hill
U.S. Postal Service
William F. Buckley, Jr
Pat’ Moynihan
United Nations
United States of America
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Algeria
Boumedienne
Rossini
Ahmed Ben Bella
Mr. Moynihan
Mr. Nock
Danville
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