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...outside until our system changes its rules by drastically limiting the amount of money a candidate is allowed to raise and by reducing the amount of time a candidate may campaign. Only by leveling the field will those players be able to enter the game. Ronna L. Edelstein, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
Dennis Culhane, the University of Pennsylvania professor who co-authored Tuesday's HUD report, says that Housing First is working. "What these data show," he told me, "is that when we make a targeted investment strategy focused on chronic homelessness, we can actually make measurable improvement...
...sure Parshall understands that, absent that seminal document, which is the foundation of our government, our country might have become a dictatorship - a form of government I'm certain he would find more odious than our constitutional republic seems to be to so many Libertarians. Gary Nelson, Martinsburg, Pennsylvania...
...nation as sharply in the past 13 years as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision affirming women's constitutional right to abortion. Last week it became apparent that states' efforts to regulate abortion are having an equally divisive effect on the high court. In overturning a Pennsylvania law designed to discourage women from seeking abortions, Justice Harry Blackmun and four colleagues ringingly reaffirmed the court's 1973 landmark ruling. But four dissenters, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, sharply questioned the ever widening scope of Roe and subsequent decisions. If states cannot impose some limits on abortion, the Chief...
...hospitals need parental consent to treat a minor, handicapped or not --and since parents are not compelled by law to consent to treatment, federal regulation is intrusive. Confronted by the double setback, President Reagan seemed to confuse the two rulings in his news conference last week. Asked about the Pennsylvania decision, he responded to the Baby Doe case but used words that could apply to both abortion and the handicapped: ''If our Constitution means anything, it means that we, the Federal Government, are entrusted with preserving life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well, where do you draw the line...