Public editorials on I-270 congestion and regional planning
Letters debate driving dangers and the toll of congestion on I-270. Readers urge earlier departures, removal of HOV limits, and transit options like MARC, while WASHCOG promotes a two year regional Vision with a congestion plan and public feedback due by June 15.
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Highway One
Mr. Thompson
Eric Lawrence Marcus
MARC
Frederick
Point of Rocks
Department of Transportation
Metropolitan Washington
Washcog
Liz
Cole Thompson
Roger Stevens Three Act Life Celebrated In Memorial
Roy Meachum chronicles Roger Stevens final acts and memories from a national cultural center dedication to his work on Broadway and Washington arts. The piece surveys Stevens’s influence, the Kennedy Center, and the tributes by figures like Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Isaac Stern, Slava Rostropovich, and Art Buchwald, ending with a personal farewell from Meachum and his wife.
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Roger Stevens
New York
Broadway
Washington
Edward Kennedy
Roger
Stevens
Ronald Reagan
Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Sen. Kennedy
Georgetown
America
Leonard Bernstein
Kennedy Center
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Isaac Stern
Eugene Istomin
Slava Rostropovich
Chorale Arts Society
George Stevens, Jr
Roger Lacey Stevens
James A. Johnson
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr
Robert Whitehead
A.R. Gurney
Robert
Prky
Dorothy Kirsten
Frederika von Stade
Maria Tallchief
Arthur Mitchell
Hal Holbrook
Helen Hayyes
Annie
Sandy
Carter
Reagan
Art Buchwald
Caesar
George Stevens
Spint
Sharon
Christine Stevens
Christabel
China holds key to Asian nuclear arms race shifts
The Indian nuclear tests threaten regional strategic balance as Asia's crisis deepens. China alone can halt the India Pakistan race and urge New Delhi to CTB sign, but must adjust decades of military aid to Pakistan Iran and others. U S attention lags India, complicating response while Pakistan Iran cooperate on missiles.
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Indonesia
United States
China
Pakistan
India
New Delhi
Western Asia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
U.S
America
Britain
Bangladesh
Enterprise
Bay of Bengal
Indira Gandhi
France
Scripps Howard News Service
Frederick News-Post items span parking, boxing, weddings and local development
Items from the News Post recap a city at a stand on South Court Street parking lot, boxing clubs aiding Frederick AMVETS events, a church wedding for Betty Price and Connie Cannon, grand opening at Sycamore Clover Farm store, the County Commissioners debating Warfield property for a library site, Brunswick House stalled by developer Weinberg, Christine Helliessen winning runner-up in a national youth safe driving contest, and Hood College teacher certification programs gaining state approval.
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Maryland
Christine Helliessen
Mount Airy
Amvegts
Frank Ruggiero
Opryland
Nashville
Tenn
Litmus test on democratic process at BOE budget hearing
Frederick County residents, including Susan Mentzer-Blair, packed the Gov Thomas Johnson High School budget hearing for the Board of Education. The 7 pm to 10 pm session tested whether officials will fund the full BOE budget or ignore public input.
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Frederick County
Board of Commissioners
Gov. Thomas Johnson High School
Board of Education
Front Page Critique of Frederick Post Budget Hearing Coverage
A reader criticizes The Frederick Post for leading with sensational crime imagery and a sobering stabbing photo while neglecting coverage of the county Board of Education budget hearing at TJ High. The writer praises respectful, impassioned community testimony and urges fuller reporting of funding concerns and commissioners listening.
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Frederick Post
Frederick County Commissioners’ Board of Education
TJ High
Board of Education
News-Post
Letters to Editor questions Meachum on bias and Israel
LEO SPERLING criticizes The Frederick News-Post and journalist Mr. Meachum for inflammatory reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. He cites passion in civic action but condemns sensationalism and accuses the piece of misinformation and insulting claims about Jewish defense groups.
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Frederick County Teachers Association
Kim Lewis
Frederick News-Post
Defnse
Hagannah
KKK
David Duke
NAACP
Louis Farrakhan
Jewish Antidefamation League
Mr. Meachum
Needle exchange ban kept by Clinton administration
Edward B. Jenisins argues the Clinton administration should not lift federal funding for needle exchange, noting mixed signals, urging thorough analysis, and debating terms like drug user versus addict while linking hard core dependency to crime and urging precautionary AIDS prevention.
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Clinton
Israel bashing in a letter to the editor
A reader rebukes Roy Meachum for Israel bashing and argues Americans broadly support Israel as a free democracy and reliable ally. The letter cites Senate letters on land concessions, papal and Protestant support, and historical acts from 1948 through the Oslo process, noting Palestinian attacks and regional tensions.
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Roy Meachum
Israel
Mr. Meachum
Middle East
Meachum
Clinton
Pope
Pat Robertson
Jerry Falwell
John Hagee
Jerusalem
United Nations
Jordan
Lebanon
Arafat
Letters to the Editor seeks signed submissions
The Frederick News Post invites letters exclusive to the paper and requires writers to include name, home address, and business numbers for verification. Abridgments occur for space, poems and copies of letters to others are not published, and publication is not guaranteed due to high volume.
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