Open government under fire over closed Frederick meetings
The Frederick News-Post criticizes Mayor Paul Gordon and city officials for closing meetings about the Carroll Creek expansion and funding for skyboxes at Harry Grove Stadium. It argues sunshine laws permit public access to discussions on downtown traffic, bank expansion, and personnel matters, noting a bank expansion proceeded despite secrecy.
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Frederick
Paul Gordon
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James Grimes
Greater Frederick Development Corporation
Frederick County National Bank
City Hall
Carroll Creek Commission
Charles Coss
News-Post
Kids Cash Bunkers Challenge Banks in Growing Allowance Boom
A letter notes pre kindergarten to seventh grade children hold vast sums in cash across the United States totaling over eight billion dollars last year. It cites rising per capita income, major spending on snacks, toys, clothes, movies, and arcade games while suggesting a tax funded debt payoff by the young. Also reports Tom Clancy began a sixth novel The Sum of All Fears with classified subject matter.
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America
Roy Rogers
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Thrasher
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Ninja Turtles
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Rolling Stones
Tom Clancy
Federal aid for yuppie flu victims linked to AIDS
Independent researchers linked chronic fatigue syndrome to the same retroviruses as AIDS, boosting credibility for patients long dismissed as imagining illness. Government action has been slow, with limited surveillance and no definitive test, while CDC officials shift to viewing low mood as a consequence, not a cause. Migration of funds and research priorities is debated as physicians pursue case studies and clarification over four years.
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Incline Village
Paul Zimmerman
Cheney
Daniel Peterson
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Peterson
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Gunn
Election Board seeks 250 volunteers for registration drive
From the files of the News-Post fifty years ago, the Election Board president Robert H Routzahn said about 250 volunteers were needed to help with mandatory compulsory military registration under the supervision of the Board of Election Supervisors. Libertytown High School students toured The News-Post plant under Mrs Hilda Hauver.
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Robert H. Routzahn
Board of Election Supervisors
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Hilda Hauver
News-Post
Eleanor Baker
Kathryn Fogle
Austin Grabill
Margie Gross
Katy Hammon
Eleanor Jay
Chariots Koontz
Rosalie Kreimer
Betty Myers
Louise Smith
Vivian Snyder
Hugh Sneadner
George Gorsuch
Betty Baker
Catherine Beard
Adelene Barker
Robert Dotterer
Donald Englar
Ethel Franklin
Annabelle Hines
Price Jackson
Annabelle Long
Smoke signals and the burden of smoke free air
John L. Difman of Buckeystown comments on tobacco editorials in the Frederick News Post. He notes smoker ease versus non-smoker burden and urges pushing for smoke free sections, wind advantages, and public support to keep cars and spaces decontaminated.
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Frederick
Not Morality Police Norah Whiting on Abortion Lobby
Not Morality Police Norah Whiting argues Tuesday that the abortion lobby seeks to separate sex from reproduction and push sex without responsibility. She accuses prolife lawmakers of hypocrisy over rape incest exclusions while abortion activists embrace rape scenarios for advocacy. The piece asserts abortion is killing regardless of conception and condemns abortion as violence against a woman's body.
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Norah Whiting
Whiting
Right To Life Movement
Pro-Life Call for Compassion in Pregnancy From Rape or Incest
Angela Martin argues for understanding and time to heal for pregnant rape and incest victims. She condemns abortion profiteers and molester complicity, urging laws to protect vulnerable unborn children and uphold human dignity over expediency. Walkersville.
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Whitings
Room for all views in peace debate letter
Yvonne Small of the Peace Resource Center defends broad public discourse in the Frederick News-Post. She praises balanced reporting, cites personal exchanges with Eichman Logocki and Eichelberger, and reiterates peace activists’ commitment to nonviolent social change within democracy.
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Richard Richman
News-Post
Peace Resource Center
Frederick News-Post
Bush in the sand trap amid Bush rhetoric and policy critique
A reader from Urbana, Hugh Schneider, voices frustration with President Bush’s timing and policy priorities. He questions Desert Shield, S&L bailout, and tax ideas, urging focus on energy, education, and other issues while hoping for progress beyond political traps on the greens.
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Diane P. Newman
Mr. Bush
Voter turnout critique by Gertrude W Allen
In the News Post on Friday September 14 Gertrude W Allen comments that just under 32 percent of registered voters voted in the primary and urges nonvoters to consider the privilege of voting compared with citizens in countries denying the vote.
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