Editorial argues tax increment financing benefits Long Beach and others
The Western Center on Law and Poverty sues Long Beach and 14 Southland cities over tax increment financing for redevelopment. The piece defends TIF, noting frozen assessments, proceeds used to repay redevelopment costs, and eventual higher tax revenues for counties schools and districts, plus local gains.
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Long Beach
Southland
The
Western Center On Law and Poverty
West Beach
Wells Fargo Bank
Union Bank
Norris Industries
City of Long
Tax exemption for art purchases favors museums in California
Senate Bill 1021 moves to remove sales and use taxes on original art bought by government entities or nonprofit museums. The measure, supported by Sen. Alan Sieroty and LA County Museum of Art, would cost the state about 119000 and local tax revenue 31000 annually based on 2.5 million in art transactions, but would boost museum budgets for acquisitions and donations.
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Senate
State
Assembly
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Ways and Means
Alan Sieroty
Los Angeles
California
Long Beach Museum of Art
State Board of Equalization
Letters on the Panama Canal and social issues in 1970s America
Readers criticize the Panama Canal treaty as emotional policy and warn against renegotiating off 75 year old accords while weighing U.S. leadership and defense. The letters attack liberal orthodoxy, call for hard survival choices, and discuss capital punishment, gun control, and pornographic advertising bans in local papers with personal anecdotes and civic pride.
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U.S. and
The
Canal
Panama Canal
U.S
Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mexico
Guadelupe Hidalgo
France
Louisiana Purchase
Russia
Alaska
United Nations
General Brown
JCS
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Inaccurate IPT report on Rockwell NEPA union vote
The August 8 IPT story misstates the Rockwell Rockwell International Rocketdyne LAAD and Space divisions union certification election on August 15. It confuses NEPA with the UAW and claims a blue collar vote against NEPA, which is incorrect as NEPA is a professional association and UAW supports NEPA without organizing the engineers.
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IPT
Rockwell International
Rocketdyne
LAAD
Space
National Engineers and Professionals Association
NEPA
UAW
Rockwell Engineers
Stor
NLRB
Ken Wood
Wood
ESC
Helms Indictment Dilemma Tests Law and Power in Washington
Griffin Bell faces a defining decision on whether to seek a grand jury indictment of former CIA Director Richard Helms for perjury. The case pits legal principle against a Washington social-political circle pressing to shield Helms, amid past CIA actions and inquiries. The issue centers on whether top officials are bound by law, echoing Watergate ideals and challenging government accountability.
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Griffin Bell
CIA
Richard Helms
Bell
Edward H. Levi
Helms
Washington
Welms
Henry Kissinger
Rober McNamara
Averell Harriman
Dick Helms
Edward Levi
Senate
Helm
Stuart Symington
Chile
Symington
Allende
Igno Helms
Congress
Bellflower Protests City Hall Cost Plan and Fees
On August 22 Bellflower residents packed a bimonthly meeting to challenge a 1.5 million expenditure. Speakers attacked the plan while the City Council showed restraint amid sharp remarks, as residents urged greater public involvement and vowed to attend more meetings.
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Bellflower
Belflower
Capital punishment letter to the editor defends the death penalty
A letter to the editor by George Wise argues for execution for deliberate murders. He criticizes opponents as naively liberal and urges compassion for victims and their families while insisting punishment should fit the crime and be carried out.
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Harbor City
Deukmejian
Wise
T PT
George Wise
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