Pupil Drop Sets Tone For Public School Austerity
Editorial reviews budget cuts and enrollment declines across the United States. Education unions report thousands of teacher layoffs, with Massachusetts and Philadelphia facing major cuts and Chicago near bankruptcy. NEA notes further layoffs and schools cutting arts, libraries, and kindergarten. Some districts charge athlete user fees as funds shrink. Despite lower grades stabilizing, overall enrollment continues to fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyt Gimlin
Massachusetts
American Federation of Teachers
Boston
Boston Teachers Union
AFT
Philadelphia
Philadel
National Education Association
NEA
Howard Carroll
Trudeau Energy Program strains US Canadian ties
The New Energy Program aims to Canadianize oil and gas, raising ownership goals and provoking U.S. concerns. American and Canadian investors trade accusations as diplomats wrestle over trade, fishing rights, acid rain, and publishing barriers amid a complex bilateral relationship.
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United States
Hoyt Gimlin
U.S
Trudeau
Fortune
Pierre Trudeau
Seagram
du Pont
Mobil Oil
Conoco Inc
Canada
Ottawa
U.S. Senate
New England
Great Lakes
Ancient Italian catacomb may reveal Jewish Christian relations
Archaeologists near Venosa in southern Italy uncovered a vast underground burial site used by Jews around 1,600 years ago, with eight galleries and over a thousand niches. Led by Prof. Meyers and Rev. Coin tempermina the team hopes further finds illuminate Jewish Christian coexistence in Roman times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venosa
Italy
Eric M. Meyers
Duke University
Cesare Cointemmina
University of Bari
In Your Opinion on Nursing Home Care
A letter laments poor care of a 94 year old mother in a nursing home due to staff shortages. The writer recalls failing to receive consistent feeding, bathing, warmth, and medical attention, urging more attentive daily care and an always available doctor. The section ends with musings on rain and synaesthetic education from Michael F. Andrews.
SU Football Faces Grim Outlook After Rutgers Loss
Syracuse letter writer Patrick A. McGafferty questions the team’s remaining schedule and asks if Dave Warner is the best quarterback option for SU. He warns the Orange could be overwhelmed if play does not improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutgers
Orange
Dave Warner
Patrick A. McCgafferty
Syracuse
Walking in the Rain and the synaesthetic insight
A reader letter discusses the July 8 piece Walking in the Rain by Tom Carr and Janette Grenbell’s earlier Wait for Nature. It posits synaesthesia as a gifted lens to experience rain through senses rather than material or cerebral means, portraying rain as a conduit for wonder or discomfort.
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Herald- Journal
Tom Carr
Janette Grenbell
Nature
Mohawks interview by Jonathan Elmer on page D-1
Harrisburg reader Jimmy Little Turtle recounts reading his interview with Mohawks and translation by Tom Porter, noting Porter’s national spokesmanship and a recent award. He seeks info from Mr and Mrs Vincent Murphy about their deaf daughters and how to obtain Deaf American Magazine and World Games for the Deaf, as he volunteers with Special Olympics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herald-American
Jonathan Elmer
Tom Porter
Ropko Chapel
Texas
Vincent Murphy
Jimmy Little Turtle
Harrisburg
Eighty Thousand Dollar Prison Cell Tax Hike Questioned
Cornelius W. Phinney of Richland denounces an $80,000 prison cell and a November prison bond proposal at the State Fair exhibit by the Department of Correctional Services. He argues high costs burden taxpayers and could drive industry south as taxes rise.
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New York
Department of Correctional Services
Cornelius W. Phinney
Richland
Doest thou well to be angry in modern debate
Anthony Lewis discusses Yale president A Bartlett Giamatti and Buckley in a dialogue over the Moral Majority and anger. He cites the Book of Jonah to argue that humanity matters more than abstract zeal and that a tolerant civic spirit is essential for a functioning secular society.
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Anthony Lewis
New York Times
Boston
Jonah
Jerry Falwell
A. Bartlett Giamatti
William F. Buckley Jr
Giamatti
Yale
Falwell
America
Buckley
God
Nineveh
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Syracuse Herald-Journal
Arthur Jenkins
Dirst
Merald
THE
Herald Company
Clinton Square
N.Y
William D. Cotter
Stephen Rogers
Stephen A. Rogers
Robert T. Hennessey
Eble Hotnans Moneaing
R. Gary Kruger
Edward 8. Sabine
Metropolitan
Jerome O. Cooley
Deborah J. Abbott
Alvi Ili 2
T ‘Ekx
Williai Se
Er Mahiat S
Carl J. Sweeney
William W. Browning Jr
Phia Federation of Teachers
Chicago
Illinois
Board of Education
Raul Villalobos
Marc Lalonde
Quebec
Bari
Horace
Tyrrhenian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Tom
Janette
Michael F. Andrews
Dept. of Synaesthetic Education
Syracuse University
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