Saturday Notebook District changes and looming projects
A column notes optimism with new openings at Wendy's and Econo Lodge, plus plans for a COF building, hotel remodel, and Ottawa Truck expansion. Major construction includes two bridges and widening K-68. Also references a Burlington school board candidate and a EPA study on household toxic chemicals.
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Wendy’s
23Rd
Main
Ottawa
COF
Mains Des Cygnes
To Your Good Health: Exercise Tips from Dr Donohue
Readers seek guidance on situps neck strain and safe abdominal training. Advice emphasizes avoiding neck strain by not locking hands behind head and using side bending for obliques while confirming medical clearance for osteoarthritis.
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DR. Donohue
H.S.R. T
C.P
T.G.F
R.R
Tax Bill Savior Rostenkowski Reagan's Man
President Reagan eyeing a major tax code overhaul as a potential breakthrough after a rough year. Dan Rostenkowski drives house passage with a disciplined Ways and Means approach while Senate leaders weigh different tax reform paths and political risk.
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David S. Broder
Washington
Reagan
Congress
South Africa
Senate
America
Dan Rostenkowski
Ill
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rostenkowski
Chicago
Daley
Bob Dole
Senate Finance Committee
Bob Packwood
Soviet Union
House-Senate Conference Committee
Fair's Wrong Place To Sell Farm Bill
Hutchinson columnist reflects on the State Fair as a stage for farm policy debate. He cites Dole Glickman and Harkin farm bill tensions, urges bipartisan outreach, praises sanction bi-partisanship on South Africa, and recalls 1950s press references to race with caution about labels.
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John McCormally
Harris
Hutchinson
State Fairgrounds
Senate
Bob Dole
Dan Glickman
Tom Harkin
Iowa
Fairgrounds
Glickman
Harkin
Dole
Sen
Reagan
Administration
Harkin-Glickman
South Africa
Eleanor Smeal
National Organizaton of Women
Joe Smith
Vision And Guts: Alf Landon’s enduring liberal vision
John Marshall analyzes Alf Landon as modern America’s original liberal. The piece recalls Landon’s 1936 bid, GOP setbacks, and his enduring stance on constitutional government, health, farm policy, and foreign relations, portraying him as a displaced hero who challenged the era’s dogma.
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John Marshall Harris
Alf Landon
America
Alfred Mossman Landon
Republican Party
Landon
Susanna
Liberty
FDR
Kansas
China
Europe
Soviet Union
Henry Ford
Calvin Coolidge
Kansas Coolidge
Coolidge
Associated Industries
Roosevelt
Liberty League
Herbert Hoover
Literary Digest
London
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