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Newspaper
Lincoln Journal
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1977
Page
4
Lincoln Neb. court records show Puc filed a lawsuit against Journal-Star Printing Co. over alleged agreement breach. Complaint seeks unspecified damages and relief. Case filed at Lincoln County Court, with parties named and initial motions pending.
The Journal urges Lincoln voters to approve two general obligation bonds totaling nearly 24 million dollars for a performing arts center office complex and sewer projects. The package covers 7 million for the Lincoln Center and 6.8 million for sewer work with 20 year debt service and explicit tax costs to prevent cost-omission claims.
The city pursues relocating agencies and building a performing arts center in the old federal building while continuing storm sewer work. City Public Works Director Dick Erixson notes approving the sewer bond now ensures major construction next summer, avoiding inflation and a delayed season.
City grapples with a 25 to 330 million deficit for sewer work as residents resist higher property taxes. Officials fault developers for contributing little to downstream storm sewers while growth worsens drainage. Downstream flooding and policy shifts prompt calls for subdivisions to share more of the downstream costs.
A Universal Press Syndicate piece reflects on Maria Callas and Stowkowski as monumental yet troublesome figures, whose flamboyant egos and personal dramas energized ensembles and altered perceptions of solo and group performance in opera and symphony alike.
A reader recalls a weekend college football game and laments a missed triple pun headline about Richard Berns hip pointer, I M Hipp breaking free against Baylor, and Burns bears. The note asks for sharper, wittier lines and critiques a moral tone in justice discussions.
President Carter’s legal brief on the Bakke case argues race can be a factor to address past discrimination but rejects setting aside a fixed number of medical school spots for minorities. The file notes the case raises constitutional questions about equality under the Fourteenth Amendment and the role of race in admissions.
The document denounces race as normally irrelevant to rights yet urges race conscious programs and government backed group rights to correct past discrimination. It predicts a permanent political scramble over minority quotas and warns of eroded black achievement and stigmatization if such policies persist.
Analysis notes Carter overrode Justice Department on Bakke and backed racial counter discrimination in university admissions. Republican silence limits reaction but may not last as Brock weighs bold moves to peel blue collar white voters from Democrats. Field Newspaper Syndicate.
A compact reflection on life lessons learned with cautionary maxims about perception, power, civility, and human nature. It contrasts cynicism and sentimentality, notes how means affect ends, and urges honest self-examination and restraint in opinion and action.
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