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...establishment of a graduated state income tax--which was defeated 2-1 on a statewide referendum in 1975--combined with a plugging-up of loopholes in the tax laws. She also believes that there should be a strict separation of the services which are provided at the state and local levels. Cities would collect taxes solely for essential services, like fire and police, and the state would spend its tax dollars on social services. This would result in "a drastic reduction in property taxes," she said...
Cambell's campaign literature stresses that he will "try to stay informed and together with the people of the town actively represent Newport." In terms of issues, he opposes costly electical power company construction projects and "state programs which mandate local funding, unless the individual towns approve...
Instead of underlining issues such as Manila's demands for a Filipino base commander, local court jurisdiction over U.S. personnel accused of crimes against Filipinos and, certainly, the not small matter of rent (why should the bases be rent free?), TIME obfuscated the Philippine position by delving into how much money is being infused into the Philippine economy by whore-patronizing American sailors. Prostitution is a problem that knows no national boundaries and indeed, like journalism, is one of the world's oldest professions...
Child-abuse cases go through screeners like Belisle to an "assessment" worker, the job Belisle used to handle. Eventually they reach the various social workers and services (counseling, referral to day care centers and Alcoholics Anonymous in local neighborhoods). Having been abused as a child seems to lead to a repetition with one's own children. Beyond that, the causes of child abuse seem to be deep-rooted anger and frustration and an intolerable sense of physical or emotional inadequacy. Anger most of all "They don't know how to control it," says Belisle's co-worker...
Nonetheless, Brooke got the local headlines that he wanted; read one in the Boston Globe: PANEL ABSOLVES BROOKE ON ALTERATIONS OF RECORDS. Next day Brooke picked up the pace of his campaign back home, where he lags behind his opponent, Democratic Congressman Paul Tsongas, 37, by eight percentage points in the latest poll. Brooke's most difficult task will be winning back the votes of liberal Democrats, who once supported him but are now drifting to Tsongas, and mollifying the Republicans whom he alienated by supporting busing to desegregate schools, federally paid abortions for poor women and the Panama Canal...