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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 2003
Page
4
Regulators urge mandatory disclosure of true debt costs from minimum payments. California's failed law spurs federal action. Consumers Union cites examples showing 17 year payoff for $1,000 at 17 percent APR and 2 percent minimum, totaling $2,590.35.
Publisher Dennis DeRossett and Managing Editor Gerald Garcia invite reader letters up to 250 words. Policies include required signatures and town, telephone number for verification, no poetry, no mass submissions, and rights to edit. Instructions cover submission methods, contact numbers, grading criteria, and voice of the reader features The Vent and SoundOff.
Kenny Benkert of Countryside urges Senator Peter Fitzgerald to support the Edwards Lieberman clean air amendment. The measure would pauseBush Administration pollution changes until the National Academy of Sciences evaluates health effects after Illinois suffered 34 days of unhealthy smog and over 200 days with levels above standards.
The President proposes a 10-year 674 billion plan to eliminate taxes on dividends and accelerate marginal rate cuts, aiming to boost markets, growth, and fairness. Democrats favor a 300 dollar one time rebate and state aid while resisting long term growth policies.
Leonard Pitts Jr argues against state executions citing Illinois Governor George Ryan’s 1999 moratorium and commuting 167 death sentences. He notes wrongful convictions, flawed justice machinery, and moral tension between victims’ demands and the sanctity of life, urging life without parole as wiser punishment.
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