Congress Delays on Housing Reform Amid Financial Crises
House delays and executive-session wrangling stall an omnibus housing reform bill as investigations reveal deep financial trouble in public housing and subsidies. 59 local authorities face serious problems with 7 verging on insolvency in cities including Washington Detroit Newark Chicago New York Kansas City San Francisco.
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John Herbers
New York Times
Washington
House of Representatives
House Banking and Currency Committee
Congress
House Appropriations
Detroit
Newark
Chicago
New York
Kansas City
San Francisco
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
White House
Brooke
Court allows Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway construction to proceed
U S District Judge William C Keady ruled the Army Corps of Engineers followed environmental guidelines and may continue the 386 million project linking the Tennessee River to the Gulf of Mexico. The Environmental Defense Fund had challenged NEPA compliance and environmental impact.
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Aberdeen, Miss
U.S. District Court
William C. Keady
Army Corps of Engineers
Tennessee River
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Environmental Defense Fund
Mississippi
Alabama
Tom Bigbee River
Tombigbee
Keady
Army Engineers
Tennessee
Corps of Engineers
Court rejects U.S. plea delaying Pentagon Papers trial
The Supreme Court unanimously denied the government request to delay the Ellsberg and Russo Pentagon Papers trial, leaving a Los Angeles proceeding potentially stalled for months over a wiretap dispute. Justice Douglas had previously stayed the case, and the Court’s order reverses that action.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Daniel Elisberg
Anthony Russo
Warren E. Burger
Los Angeles
William O. Douglas
Burger
Douglas
High Court
Justice Department
Erwin N. Griswold
Daniel M. Friedman
W. Matthew Byrne Jr
Governor vetoes nominating bill for judicial vacancies
Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie Friday vetoed a bill allowing partisan committees to name candidates for judicial offices at the November 7 election. The veto blocks most routes to fill 42 vacancies, leaving Illinois Supreme Court appointments as the only path. William J. Scott issued an opinion stating the measure violated the 1970 Constitution which lacks party convention nomination.
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Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois Supreme Court
William J. Scott
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