Saturday Notebook on Senate tax bill and press impacts
The column critiques recent Supreme Court talk and Senate led legislation, noting the Senate tax bill origin rights and anticipated conference fights. It highlights postal funding cuts, doubled newspaper mail rates, and Dole’s relief hopes, plus colorful notes on Kansas gubernatorial candidates and a California psychiatry professor running for Congress.
Downhill running can harm knees and cause cartilage wear
Dear Dr. Donohue explains downhill running imposes braking forces, slaps the feet, and tenses quads which can press the kneecap against bones and wear cartilage. He cautions minimizing downhill sections for joggers and notes osteoporosis needs weight bearing exercise rather than swimming, except for certain conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Donohue
B.B
Donoh
Ottawa Herald subscription rates 1986 update
In Ottawa and surrounding area, carrier or motor routes monthly rates are four dollars, three months eleven dollars, six months twenty one fifty five, or yearly forty dollars. Franklin County mail: monthly four fifty, three months thirteen dollars, six months twenty five, yearly forty eight. Outside Franklin County mail: monthly five fifty, three months sixteen, six months thirty one, yearly sixty. Out of state readers pay five and a half percent sales tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Senate
Senate
Postal Service
S. Cedar
Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Franklin County
Quarterbackers and Cheddarbackers at the Yuppie Diner
Mike Royko lampoons a health club restaurant menu built around football themed burgers. The waiter explains a Quarterbacker is a ham burger while Cheddarbacker adds cheddar. debates over Velveeta, Provolone, Swiss and American cheese arise as calories are listed for items like Wimbledon Finale fruit plate and Jack Daniel on the rocks. The piece satirizes fitness culture, menu wordplay, and overhyped health absurdity.
Supreme Court Shuffle Reagan Grabs Court Legacy
Washington analyst David S. Broder argues Reagan seized a swift opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court by nominating William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, potentially forging a conservative majority for decades. The piece notes Burger’s surprise resignation timing, Senate politics, and the aging liberal justices while predicting further Reagan picks if a renewal occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David S. Broder Washington
Supreme Court
Reagan
George Washington Plunkett
William H. Rehnquist
Burger
Appeals Court
Antonin Scalia
Brain Trust
Rehnquist
Congress
Scalia
University of Virginia
David M. O'Brien
Storm Center
High Court
O'Brien
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Senate
Mr. Dooley
Democrats
William Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Harry Blackmun
Lewis Powell Jr
Plunkett
Tammany
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S. Supreme Court
House
Tip O'Neill
Robert Dole
Sen. Dole
Senate House
Tom Docking
Tommy
Snow
California
Paul G. Donohue
Ottawa Herald
Channel Seven
Mike Royko
Quarterbacker
Food & Beverage
the Supreme Court
Jimmy Carter
Washington
David
Broder
Weeu