Reagan should be challenged in 84 by a strong Republican contender
The piece argues Reagan's deficit spending and tax cuts risk the party's hold on the presidency in 1984. It highlights Stockman’s memo, the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, and rising worries among conservatives about electability, especially among women and minority voters. It champions Gov. Richard Snelling of Vermont as a credible GOP challenger with a record of budget reform and job creation.
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Ronald Reagan
Reagan
David Stockman
Gallup
George Gallup, Jr
Washington
Martin Luther King
King
Congressional Budget Office
Bush
Howard Baker
Robert Dole
Richard Snelling
Vermont
Snelling
Republican Governors’ Association
National Governors’ Association
Jimmy Carter
U.S
Brattleboro Reformer
New Hampshire
Tomatoes Save My Garden From Repeated Failures
A gardener chronicles a season focused on tomatoes, noting the long effort to grow fruit successfully. He recalls planting 18 seedlings, weekly harvests through August, and near-constant jokes with his partner about using tomatoes for dinner, spaghetti sauce, and beefsteak slicing.
Tomato Overload Brings Household to the Brink
A writer laments an unstoppable tomato glut from July through Labor Day. Seven tons poured into the house, with canning, freezing, and even neighborly theft of plants. Meals overwhelm with tomatoes as the flood prompts witty complaints and family banter.
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Italy
Get President Reagan out Get out vote urged by Elyria readers
An op ed from Elyria residents blasts President Reagan over Beirut and El Salvador actions. They accuse him of deception about peacekeeping and arming troops, decry his vacations, call for voting him out, and urge seniors and others to register before further wartime costs.
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Elyria
Beirut
Reagan
el Salvador
Washington
America’s faith under fire and Tocqueville’s echo
A reflective column argues that Tocqueville found America’s strength in religious life and laments modern secularism. It questions how church and state have drifted from Judeo Christian conscience amid abortion pornography homosexuality and legal challenges to prayer and Christmas scenes. It urges united moral stand to restore national unity under God.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
America
ACLU
Grateful for school busing praised to Elyria official
Public letter commends Mr. Kick of the Elyria Board of Education for implementing a new hazardous busing program and asks for patience as routes and schedules are adjusted. It notes Illiteracy awareness and Elyria Public Library Project READ with tutors, funding from local foundations, and calls for volunteers.
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Kick
Elyria
United States
Elyria Public Library
Laubach
Bonnie Kerr
Claudia Batista
Greater Lorain County
Mr. Kick
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