Viewpoint: GTE customers face repeated phone book split
Our Viewpoint condemns General Telephone for pursuing two white pages again in Venice Englewood and North Port despite PSC orders to combine into one book. The piece cites 1 000 poll responses showing dissatisfaction and urges action by Joseph Cresse or Tallahassee officials to prevent another shortchanged year.
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General Telephone
GenTel
GTE
Florida Public Service Commission
Venice
Englewood
North Port
General Telephone Company
Joseph Cresse
P.S.C
Tallahassee
Venice FAA dispute over airport fence and runways rages on
Readers recount FAA inspections claiming no runway distress while Venice plans a nearly 500000 runway repaving and a 360000 grant. They question non aeronautical uses funding, FAA authority, and city council resolve amid proposed Englewood hospital plans and a poker game case in Nokomis.
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Venice
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
William Vitale
Office of Airport Standards For
Southern Regional Office
Vitale
Reith
Mr. Reith
Susan Alexander
Edward C. Krebs, JR
Three Hospital Representatives Speak At Friday Church Meeting
At the Friday night gathering in the Methodist Church three hospital corporate reps spoke about local healthcare issues. Venice Hospital disclosed a multi million dollar debt during the session, with remarks from Mr Ronald Hanson on the matter.
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The
Methodist Church
Venice Hospital
Ronald Hanson
Largo Eight Case prompts concern over police action
A reader protests a Florida law enforcement operation in Largo Eight Case alleging undercover agents targeted a group of senior citizens during a mid afternoon activity, criticizing the priorities of the police and a Florida judge.
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Largo
Florida
Murphy Sinclair ticket urged as cure for national woes
A reader criticizes current policy and urges elect Murphy for president and Sinclair for vice president in 1984, praising their alleged insight while lamenting deficit spending and tax and spend policies from 1933. The letter ends with a call for the two to reveal their solution.
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Murphy
Sinclair
Murphy /Sinclair
R.S.V.P
Bill Landgraf
Venice
When I Love Her Most Valentine to My Life Partner
A nostalgic heartfelt memo from 1979 praising a lifelong partner. The writer lists daily acts of care, support during trips and illness, family life, and shared memories to justify a special Valentine sentiment. He invites readers to share their own love stories, concluding with a prompt: What's yours.
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Valentine
Cronkite
Showdown on Reagonomics From a Banker and Tobin
A former banker and Nobel economist James Tobin critique Reaganomics as flawed. They argue tax cuts coupled with higher Pentagon spending heighten the deficit and rely on unemployment and bankruptcies to force behavior, challenging political viability of wage price controls.
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Reagan
James Tobin
Tobin
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