Pennsylvania Story Shape Won't Get $4 Billion
One month to go before Pennsylvania's new fiscal year opens amid doubt over Governor Shapp's $3.8 billion spending request. Republicans in the House curbed the plan and Senate Democrats hint budget cuts may be needed, likely delaying full approval and forcing stop gap funding.
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Mason Denison
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
House of Representatives
Senate
Shapp
Huntingdon Daily News
Capitol Hill
Presidents and their money missteps in history
Jim Bishop surveys White House spending by presidents from Grant to Kennedy, Nixon, Eisenhower, and others. He notes lavish interiors, costly jet expenditures, trusts and frugal mistakes, interlacing anecdotes with sharp jabs at the era’s money culture and First Families.
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Jim Bishop
Pennsylvania Avenue
Ulysses Simpson Grant
White House
Abraham Lincoln
Abe
Lincoln
Nixon
Eisenhower
Ike
Gettysburg
Sherman Adams
Adams
Europe
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
Indiana
Congress
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Bill Greer
Secret Service
Greer
Oval Office
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blairsville pistol incident shocks Blairsville area
In June 1923 William Penrose of Millwood Shaft fired a revolver missing intent. His nephew John Bollinger, 21, was wounded in the right arm and remained hospitalized in Latrobe Hospital from the incident and accompanying shock.
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Blairsville
William Penrose
Millwood
John Bollinger
Latrobe Hospital
Saltsburg
Saltsburg High School
Vogue Terrace
McKeesport
Harrisburg
Haldeman pressed CIA to curb Watergate probe
Washington sources reveal H R Haldeman claimed the president’s wish to limit the Watergate inquiry to five arrested at Democratic HQ. CIA memos show Walters and Helms pressed Gray to slow or stop the investigation, tying White House direction to FBI action and revealing Nixon’s role in the coverup.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
H. R. Haldeman
CIA
FBI
L. Patrick Gray
Haldeman
White House
Richard Helms
Vernon Walters
Walters
Gray
John Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman
Democratic National Committee
Watergate Apartments
Patrick Gray
Mexico
Helms
Nixon
Inside Labor The Right To Probe By Victor Riesel
Journalist Victor Riesel argues the Weather Underground and allied groups carried out violent plots across the 1960s and 70s, citing FBI reliance and public disclosures of clandestine operations. He highlights the Ad Hoc Military Buildup Committee’s open reporting on military targets, asking how such leaks and funding arise amid national security concerns.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Ford Motor Co
Bank of America
New York
Weather People
Black September
Red Army
Europe
West Berlin
Internal Security Division
Justice Dept
Federal
Nixon
Winthrop St
Cambridge
Mass
Pentagon
Hickam Air Force Base
Hawaii
Haiphong Harbor
548Th
Hanoi
Haiphong
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Mountain Home Air Force Base
Idaho
McConnell Air Force Base
Kansas
Okinawa
Marine Division
Oriskany
Tonkin Gulf
First of its kind suit targets school over reading level
San Francisco Unified School District faces a $1 million lawsuit from an unnamed 18 year old student alias Peter Doe claiming graduation with a fifth grade reading ability. The case, argued by Susanne Martinez, could spark similar suits and huge tax payer costs while educators question its merit.
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Don Oakley
San Francisco
California
Susanne Martinez
Youth Law Center
Peter Doe
Haskell Freedman
Massachusetts
Teachers Assa
Martinez
United States
Economic Research Service
Gardener reports four peonies stolen from lot
Leila Ralston writes after winning the Agnes B Race award for a floral display. She describes losing all four prized peonies from her garden, planted two years ago in August, noting the plants were healthy and full of buds before the theft.
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Sincrely
Leila Ralston
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Russell M. Hickey
Joseph L. Donnelly
William B. Hastings
Ews
Frankb. Hood
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AP News
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Armstrong
Cambrig
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Jefferson
Westmoreland
Holland
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Akron
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Gardener
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