Funny Taxpayer Goals Highlight Deficit Debate
A Scripps Howard editorial recounts a Columbus Ohio mayor's remark that taxpayers want adequate services low taxes and deficit reduction. The piece argues these goals are reasonable and compatible with a pay as you go approach, urging officials to take taxpayer concerns seriously amid a large federal deficit and trillion dollar budget.
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Washington
House Budget Committee
Columbus
Ohio
Dana Rinehart
Rinehart
Scripps Howard
Perceived quality gaps hinder U.S. exports say conference
The American Business Conference surveyed members and found some foreign buyers doubt U.S. product quality. It cautions the issue is a marketing challenge, not a fact of inferiority, and urges private and public efforts to remove trade barriers and promote U.S. goods abroad.
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U.S
Congress
America
Omaha World-Herald
Russia Epic Parody For Soviet TV Meets Cold Resistance
A fictional pitch outlines a miniseries about life in the USSR under American occupation. The director-general dismisses it as implausible, proposing light risqué scenes instead, while spoofing a future dystopia of surveillance and cultural banality under foreign rule.
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Leo Raskolnikov
Soviet Union
Russia
Leo
United Nations
Sverdlosk
Manor Oak
Internal Revenue Service
Vernadsky Prospekt
Rusakovskaya Street
Letters Time for positive steps toward peace
A citizen urges urgent peacemaking and restraint from arms, urging diplomacy with Russia and Iran. The writer warns against further war, calls for humanitarian aid, and asks officials to focus on domestic needs such as feeding the hungry, unemployed, and homeless rather than armament and foreign entanglements. The piece links current turmoil to historical chaos and stresses nonviolence and dialogue.
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Chronicle-Telegram
America
George Washington
Iran
Lebanon
Drunk Driver Sentences Spark Public Outcry
Letter condemns light penalties for drunk driving after Rodney Bowling serves six months while others receive life terms. Cites a disabled 3-year-old, a crippled 21-year-old, and Robert Brock's coma death since 1975 as examples of alleged judicial leniency. Calls for harsher punishments and ban on driving for offenders.
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Rodney 8
Bowling
Robert S. Brock
Poverty shocks a Cleveland refugee recounts postwar journey
A refugee couple arriving in Cleveland in 1949 on Thanksgiving Day describes extreme poverty and hard labor in the clothing industry for pennies. They later bought homes in 1951 and 1958, opposed relying on social security, and argue that native-born residents could achieve similar outcomes with less welfare.
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Cleveland
Golden Acres levy heartfelt thanks from Amherst leader
Christine Rosenbaum chair of the Golden Acres Levy Committee extends gratitude to Lorain County voters for supporting the levy. She notes the measure preserves the county's tradition of aiding those unable to help themselves and allows residents to live with dignity.
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the Chronicle-Telegram
Lorain County
Golden Acres Levy
Levy Committee
Golden Acres
Christine Rosenbaum
Golden Acres Levy Committee
Amherst
Progress is owning a VCR
Bob Choate recalls receiving a VCR as a Christmas gift. He admits confusion with its many buttons and wires, but thanks friend Bob Camp for wiring it to his TV and producing a picture. The piece humorously notes the device as a status symbol and its limited mastered function of library tape viewing.
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Bob Camp
Elyria
Bob Choate
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