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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1993
Page
5
A reflective Christmas meditation contrasts festive joy with life’s trials. It urges pausing work, embracing family, and sensing goodwill beyond commercialization, wishing readers peace and comfort through the holiday season and year ahead.
Four veteran Onondaga County legislators Willard Sipe Clarence Dunham Timothy Rice and Gerald Mingolelli exit at year’s end totaling 78 years of service. They shepherded county projects such as the On Center incinerator and downtown jail while shaping policy on lake cleanup diversity welfare municipal finance and oversight through long careers.
The IRS saved 1.4 million by sending postcards to 11 million taxpayers last year and will double postcard recipients this year. Postcards carry preprinted labels for preparers and can be partially returned for forms if taxpayers skip a preparer, WSJ reports. Jeers to state lawmakers for spending millions on self serve newsletters. Senate and Assembly mail totals in early 1993 exceeded 2.6 million combined.
A Christmas reflection questions how violence shapes society and urges teaching children Christlike love mercy and gentleness. The author calls for turning from killing to care and prayer, especially at Christmas, insisting the time to teach peace is now.
New York based THINK FIRST Central New York chapter promotes preventing brain and spinal injuries through school visits and education. It highlights youths facing high health care costs and risks from alcohol, speed, and poor road conditions during holidays. Lisa Lambiase of Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital in Syracuse writes.
A schoolteacher valued the 5 p.m. children's services over midnight mass, arguing Christ’s birth remains the core event. The piece reflects on societal changes and personal plans to host a 5 p.m. service while recognizing diverse ways families celebrate Christmas Eve.
The writer voices outrage at the Albany budget showing Onondaga County receives 26 million from a 21 billion state transportation program. With about 2 percent of the population the county gets less than one tenth of one percent, prompting calls for a louder protest against perceived Upstate inequity.
A Syracuse reader argues police fail to enforce right turn on red and other traffic rules. The letter warns drivers ignore signals, urges better deployment and funding rather than abolishing the regulation, and cites James Street intersections as examples.
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