Editorial: Pay full cost for contract city services
The piece argues Los Angeles County should charge contract cities the full service and overhead costs for policing and other municipal services. The Gonsalves bill limits overhead charges, costing the county millions and shifting tax burdens to non contract city property owners. It supports SB 287 to restore negotiable rates and ease the unfair tax burden.
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Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
Harry Hatford
Sheriff's Department
Long Beach
David A. Roberts
Transportation Week and California's Moving Freight
President Carter proclaims National Transportation Week urging realism in planning. California relies on highway shipping as three of five communities lack alternatives, with trucks and railroads both vital. Future policy must be guided by industry experts to avoid repeating the failed statewide plan rejected by Governor Brown.
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Carter
California
California Transportation Board
John Y. Tunney
Independent Press-Telegram
Senator Tunney
Tunney
Los Angeles
Washington
George Mi ’S
Cranston
John Tunney
Asthenis
Carter Faces Liberal Backlash Threatening Popularity
Liberal critics grow within the Democratic Party and Congress while AFL-CIO and black community leaders press policy gaps. Carter's shift to conservative fiscal policy aims to attract business support but risks alienating liberals, labor, and minorities as public opinion remains volatile.
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Robert N. Giaimo
Ben Edmund Muskie
House
Senate
Carter
White House
Congressional Black Caucus
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Pew
South
Soviet Union
Community letters urge thrift and youth protection
A letter criticizes government waste, suggests feeding shelter animals with restaurant and hospital leftovers, and calls for recycling. It urges protecting children from explicit magazines in stores, proposes segregating adult material from family reading, and laments American drug crime and jail conditions discussed by Felix Mesa of Long Beach.
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United States
Mexico
Messen
Felix Mesa
Long Beach
Readers debate porn, crime, water, and work life
Letters discuss porn as distraction from violent crime, police priorities, and Gulf Coast drought behavior. Contributors cite Sal Mineo and other actors’ murders, critique government response, praise Senator Cranston’s staff, and recount personal battles with neurasthenia and housewives’ syndrome amid gender expectations.
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Sal Mineo
Christa Helm
David Merrick
James Kierman
Barbara Colby
Bri
Paige
Washington
R.L. Welch
Lakewood
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Capitol Hill
Thomas P
Tip) O'Neill
O'Neill
George S. McGovern
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Sen
Edward Mr. Kennedy
Rep
al Ullman
Oregon
Taxing House
ST. Pave Det
Senatorial Service
Philadelphia
Jane Ennis
George Robeson
George
Ralph Gaston
Independent Press Telegram
Daniel
Ridder
Samuel C. Cameron
Males E. Sines
Don Ohl
Pope David Levinson
Bert Resnik
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