Death penalty can wait in Kansas legislative session
The article argues Kansas should postpone debates over legalizing the death penalty to focus on budgeting tax reform education and medical benefits. It stresses the state’s limited capacity to raise funds and the need to address broader welfare and policy issues before pursuing capital punishment.
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Social Security tax rise hits workers and firms
The piece argues that the 7.51 to 7.65 percent Social Security tax increase for both workers and employers is a basic tax hike, critiques government use of Social Security funds to cut deficits, and challenges myths about national debt while contrasting public sector unions with government employment benefits. It notes Reagan’s labor confrontations and questions labor's power relative to government unions.
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Ronald Reagan
Ottawa Herald publication rates listed for 1989
The Ottawa Herald announces subscription prices effective July 1 1989 for Ottawa and surrounding area by carrier motor route and by mail in Franklin County and adjacent counties and all other areas. Rates show one month three months six months and one year options with varying totals.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
Bush franking waste dwarfs congressional mail costs
The piece argues that the White House and Congress waste taxpayer funds on mailings. It cites 1989 figures showing Bush-era mailings, Senate and House totals, and uses estimates to claim the president’s post costs rival or exceed congressional spending, urging restraint.
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White House
America
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Mice and a Typewriter Coincidence in Virginia Snow
In Blue Ridge Virginia a writer recounts two odd rodent episodes near Pearl Harbor Day. A poison pellet loving mouse clogged an old Underwood typewriter, then a second mouse hauled walnuts in a hall, triggering a trapping that left the writer to ponder kleptomaniac mice in rural Rappahannock County.
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Rappahannock
Wetlands case tests reach of Clean Water Act in Pozsgai dispute
The Pozsgai matter questions EPA authority after a Hungarian immigrant bought 14 acres, cleared tires, and loaded dirt on land near a stream. EPA and Army Corps alleged wetlands and pursued civil and criminal charges, prompting a push by the Washington Legal Foundation to appeal and limit EPA reach.
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John Pozsgai
Morrisville
Pozsgai
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Army Camps of Engineers
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