Congress Faces Burden Sharing Plan With Self-Interest Highlighted
The piece argues the deficit plan shifts costs to the public while Congress keeps its generous pay and perks. It notes lawmakers approved raises to $124,400 for representatives and $101,400 for senators plus honoraria, urging sacrifice as a political symbol and calling for immediate cuts.
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Joe Sixpack
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Tom Foley
Remembrance and Reevaluation of the Civil War Experience
A first person reflection traces childhood devotion to the Confederacy in New Orleans and the shift toward empathy after exposure to balanced teaching, cinema, and Civil War history. The author weighs lost innocents, Reconstruction, and later civil rights battles while condemning wartime atrocities and honoring veterans.
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Incumbents pay raise pact tests party funds
Washington scene breaks down a Democratic pledge not to use the 35000 pay raise against incumbents in campaigns. David Worley defies the pact with Gingrich, drawing limited party support while Ralph Nader and grass roots groups press repeal.
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R-Ga
David Worley
Gingrich
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Guy Vander Jagt
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Andrew Jacobs
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William Ford
D-Mich
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Ralph Nader
Congressional Accountability Project
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Jordan
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Frederick area tribute and political notes from 1970
Fifty years ago Maryland and Frederick friends honored Elmer St C Maxwell, retiring city engineer and new state penal farm superintendent, at a Key Hotel dinner with Francis Perrott as speaker. A GOP reception in Oxon Hill featured Vice President Agnew absent, but leaders Blair Beall and Hogan attended. Red Cross notes fire deaths in 1969 and fire escape training urged. Frederick Falcons beat York Lions 61-0 in a game marked by chaotic uniforms and field errors.
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Frederick
Elmer St.c. Maxwell
Roxbury
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Francis Perrott
Herbert R. O’conor
Maxwell
Leo Weinberg
Weinberg
Roy L. Leatherman
Lloyd C. Culler
Oxon Hill
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
GOP
C. Stanley Blair
Maryland
J. Glenn Beall Jr
U.S. Senate
Larry Hogan
RED Cross Safety
Don Schley
Frederick County
United States
Frederick Falcons
York Lions
Lions
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Proof demands proof of extended school days plan
Reader urges transparency from State Superintendent Joseph Shilling and Frederick County Superintendent Noel Farmer on adding 20 days to the school year. Questions include prior and projected grade improvements, test scores, student emotions, counselor needs, substance use, dropouts, teen issues, and time for clubs. calls for a full public research report before backing the plan.
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Joseph Shilling
Frederick County
Noel Farmer
Extended school time debate and NEA funding concerns
Margie L. Tin ger voices alarm at extended school time and public funding for the arts. She argues tax money should back essential needs, not theories, and urges proof that longer school days benefit children. The piece cites Mary L Shaw criticizing a Senate committee action to reauthorize the NEA without content restrictions.
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Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
National Endowment For the Arts
NEA
John Frohnmayer
Frohnmayer
Mourn the true victim in Walkersville response
A Walkersville reader denounces the Monday article on the murder of James F Dennis Jr. She argues for respect to the Dennis family, laments focus on the accused and gold teeth, and urges mourning only for the victim James E Dennis and his family. Kristen Till signs the letter.
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