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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1985
Page
4
The Grace Commission offers a list of government fats to trim amid annual spending, calling out agencies like Health and Vermont Royster while detailing subsidies for home building, dairying, and tobacco. The piece imagines Uncle Sam dieting to curb debt and restore strength, reflecting on past hiring and public funds.
Editorial stresses the importance of newspapers in education as a state resolution marks National Newspapers in Education Week. Honig and Deukmejian call papers a textbook for students, aiding reading, writing, and critical thinking across history, science, math, and arts. Parents urged to promote home reading.
A Bakersfield letter to the editor discusses Washington's 1783 call for national brotherly affection and justice. The writer endorses the view that Washington’s ideals, including mercy and a pacific temper, remain essential for a happy nation, noting a Liberty Magazine reading and the author’s birthday on February 22.
The piece surveys Jean Jacques Rousseau and his radical ideas on public education, child development, and moral training. It notes his stance on graded childhood growth, endurable tests, and earnest questions, while highlighting his controversial practice of abandoning his own children and the era’s backlash to his theories.
Richardson Report argues Prop 40 harms campaign finance and grass roots. claims it restricts donations to 250 and 1000 limits, taxes fundraising, and requires declarations for gatherings. warns against taxpayer funding and chilling political activity. asserts incumbents fear grassroots organizing.
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