Congress Should Move Slowly On Commerce
Congress should slow plans to abolish the Department of Commerce. The piece notes the department’s small share of federal spending, its 92 year history, and the mixed, broad functions from tech to trade. It cites concerns over Census independence and warns changes could affect district apportionment and federal funds. It urges careful, public scrutiny of any dismantling steps.
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Department of Commerce
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Commerce Department
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Institute of Standards
Economic de Administration
Minority Business Development Agency
Bureau of the Census
The
Treasury
Census Bureau
White House
Parental Responsibility Laws Shake Oregon Cities
Oregon lawmakers consider parental liability for children’s crimes as Silverton cites parents for curfew violations, vandalism, and shoplifting. The plan includes warnings, fines after a third offense, and supports for reform, part of a broader push against juvenile crime amid welfare reform debates. The ACLU criticizes such measures as unfair punishment for uninvolved parents.
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Oregon
Silverton
Ore
John Kitzhaber
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
U.S
Civil liberties under siege by both parties says Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff argues that both Republicans and Democrats threaten constitutional rights, citing GOP moves on the Fourth Amendment and habeas corpus, and Democratic support for expanded wiretapping. He notes Orrin Hatch and Joseph Lieberman as pivotal figures and warns that public awareness of rights is insufficient as presidential campaigns begin.
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American Civil Liberties Union
Congress
House
Senate
Orrin Hatch
Utah
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
FBI
Clinton
Joseph Lieberman
Connecticut
Lieberman
Jesse Helms
North Carolina
Washington Post
Joseph Biden
Delaware
Biden
Nat Hentoff
Community colleges debate mission in North Carolina
In Raleigh the General Assembly’s 38 year old community college system faces renewed questions of purpose. Rep Grady pushes bills to ease transfer and standardize courses while funding plans propose offering junior and senior college courses on campus. Senators caution against shifting from technical education to and academic transfer focus.
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General Assembly
Robert Grady
Onslow
Senate Education Committee
Grady
Virginia Foxx
R-Watauga
Betsy Cochrane
R-Davie
Dan Simpson
R-Burke
Vic Hackley
Jacksonville
Cochrane
Hackley
Debating taxes while worrying about public art funding
A critical take on the National Endowment for the Arts and art funding. The piece argues taxpayer financed art often shows mediocrity and bureaucratic fattening, citing figures like Helms and Nixon era critiques, while noting presidential entertainments reveal taste gaps. Suzanne Fields.
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Congress
National Endowment of the Arts
NEA
Jesse Helms
Alice Goldfarb Marquis
Ronald Berman
National Endowment For the Humanities
Richard Nixon
Helms
Bete Noire of Artists
National Endowment For the Arts
Dorothy Parker
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Johnny Cash
Stevie Wonder
Paul Simon
Ronald Reagan
Frank Sinatra
Ethel Merman
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
George Bush
Joe DiMaggio
Ted Williams
Yale
Bill Clinton
Barbra Streisand
Jackie Kennedy
Pablo Casals
White House
Larry Rivers
Suzanne Fields
The
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Billie Heuser
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Royster
Freedom Newspaper
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Wim
Tina
Roger
By Dan Piraro
Community Colleges’ Mission
Paul O'Connor
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