Energy and health toll of coal in a nuclear shift
Curtis Seltzer argues that pushing coal to replace oil and possibly nuclear power could raise coal mine fatalities and injuries dramatically. A OTA study projects 370 deaths and 42,000 disabling injuries annually if production nears two-thirds more than 1977, rising further if output triples by 2000. Modern safety gains are at risk as production grows.
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Washington Post
Three Mile Island
Washington
Harrisburg
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
OTA
Congress
Appalachia
Veterans Preference Rules Stir Critics Amid Supreme Court Ruling
Opinion signals sharp feminist critique expected over a Supreme Court decision upholding veterans preference laws. Justice Stewart defends the aim to aid veterans, noting women veterans have equal privileges and that the laws have aided minorities and the handicapped in obtaining government jobs.
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Potter Stewart
Stewart
Illinois
Massachusetts
Netsch Questions Tax Cuts Stir Debate In Illinois
State Senator Dawn Clark Netsch challenged a tax cut bill before the Senate Revenue Committee. She warned that indiscriminate tax cuts risk undermining state services, suggesting relief should target lower-income groups and may require paired tax increases to avoid revenue shortfalls and higher local taxes.
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Illinois General Assembly
Dawn Clark Netsch
Chicago
Senate Revenue Committee
Gov. Thompson
Sen. Netsch
Donald Totten
Hoffman Estates
Thompson
Family farms under siege by modern technology
Detroit writer William Serrin surveys how farm mechanization reshapes rural America. He cites Paul Taylor’s warning that new tractors, hybrids, chemical inputs, and large-scale confinement systems shrink farms and farms’ living communities, elevating wealth and consolidation while eroding family farming and rural life. The piece urges land stewardship and a family-farm preservation law to distribute benefits more broadly.
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Great Plains
California
Iowa
Iowa State University
Purdue University
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