Montana dollars miss out on interest profits
Opinion notes Montana loses about 1 million dollars annually in interest on state funds. About 20 million sits in non earning checking accounts and CDs renew at low rates. Gov. Anderson pushes high yield bonds, new law aims to raise deposits' earnings, and a state investments manager is planned.
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Montana
Standard State Bureau
Dan Foley
Forrest Anderson
Department of Administration
Public access tax proposed to fund more fishing sites
Trout Unlimited spokesman Jay Rooney of Helena advocates a user tax on fishermen and waterfowl hunters to finance new public access sites. The plan would raise fishing licenses and duck stamps, with non residents paying an extra five dollars, and rely on federal matching funds to expand access amid private land closures.
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Trout Unlimited
Jay Rooney
Helena
Rooney
Plague of city crippling strikes led by Gotbaum in New York
Victor Riesel reports AFL-CIO District Council 37 head Victor Gotbaum mobilizes 120,000 city workers in a six plague plan striking across essential services. Bridges, water controls, sewage and garbage facilities falter as 27 bridges are upended and 15 trucks deflated at choke points. The smoke and stench rise as ambulances, park attendants, and chauffeurs walk off, testing Mayor Lindsay and Governor Rockefeller amid a looming civil service strike.
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Victor Riesel
New York
Wall Street
Victor Gotbaum
Finks
Rockefeller
Supreme Court
Gotbaum
Columbia U
Vic Gotbaum
American Federation of State, County and
Afl-Cio
Jerry Wurf
Memphis
Atlanta
John Lindsay
Teamsters
District Council
Army Corps of Engineers
Albany
Humphrey’s 1968 defeat seen as good for Democrats
The piece argues Humphrey’s loss in 1968 spared the party deep Vietnam War burdens and suggests Nixon’s 1969–71 record fuels liberal hopes for a 1972 comeback. It contrasts New Republic skepticism with a conservative view of the era’s consequences and party realignments.
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Kevin P. Phillips
Washington
New Left
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
New Republic
HHH
The
Humphrey
Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
White House
National Review
Traffic jams spark call for tough action by New York leaders
Washington columnist outlines a controversial plan blaming Mayor Lindsay and Police Commissioner Murphy for a New York traffic collapse. The piece proposes mass arrests, confining drivers to venues and tear gas if needed, and imagines bonds and fines funding city needs.
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Art Buchwald
Washington
New York
John Lindsay
Patrick Murphy
Nixon
John Mitchell
Lindsay
Murphy
Manhattan
Long Island Expressway
Triborough Bridge
Shea Stadium
Westchester
The
Bronx
Yankee Stadium
Commissioner Murphy
New York City
City Hall
Silver Bow County Official Newspaper Beginnings
The Montana Standard outlines its identity as the Official Newspaper of Silver Bow County with staff including publisher O R Campbell Jr editor Jeffrey B Gibson and business manager Bert Gaskill under editor Robert W Jones.
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Robert W. Jones
Silver Low County
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O.R. Campbell Jr
Bert Gaskill
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