Labor Day marks campaign kickoff and labor movement shifts
Labor Day weekend signals the start of campaign 2000 amid a revived AFL-CIO push and the evolving focus of unions from skilled trades to service and public workers. The piece notes changing perceptions of labor's meaning and the annual countdown to school, ending summer as presidents and citizens alike ponder where the season went.
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Boycott China Goods to Pressure Human Rights Policy
A Chronicle Telegram reader urges readers to avoid products made in China to protest slave labor and prisoner conscience labor. The letter calls for continued origin labeling to influence China’s human rights practices and avert appeasement.
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National debt burden per person hits nineteen thousand five hundred
The text argues a $5 trillion national debt translates to about $19,500 per American, equating personal saving and investment holdings to the owed portion. It notes politicians downplay worry and challenges the idea that the debt is simply owed to oneself.
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Never Stop Politicians From Raising Our Rents
The piece argues that U S debt burdens every citizen with an annual 1250 rent to be paid in taxes. It claims foreign holders own a quarter of debt and warns against empty campaign promises of tax cuts while deferring deficit relief. The call is to vote this November to halt the trend.
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Stopped school bus rules differ on four-lane highways
As the new school year begins in Elyria drivers are reminded that on four-lane roads like Gulf Road a bus stopping from the opposite direction does not require a stop. Behind a bus you must stop on any road and during the morning and afternoon school hours.
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Our error It's philosophy not economics
The column argues the Dole tax plan rests on moral philosophy rather than economics. Judy Shelton frames the plan as a secular moral revival, while critics note the mismatch with practical history like the New Deal and CCC legacies.
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Serious Worriers and the Labor Day Countdown
A columnist notes Labor Day as a dread season for Serious Worriers who fret about everything from Billy bug populations to pandemics of 2000s tech dates. He cites Fabio, hog farm stinks, rest stop shortages, dental mercury fears, and France’s pricey haute cuisine as examples.
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