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...public instruction, observes, "He's saying the right thing and saying it strongly enough so people are paying attention." And, Honig adds, "he really has mellowed this past year." Congress has begun to mellow back. "Bennett got off to a bumpy start with me," says Vermont Republican Robert Stafford, ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities. "But he's corrected that...
...deliberately held his pocket veto until after last week's elections, since Congress would not be in session to override him. Sponsors in the Senate and the House vowed to introduce the legislation in the new Congress. "If he was dissatisfied with the cost," said Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont, a co-sponsor, "then he should just wait to see what the Democratic Congress comes up with next year...
...series in January called "County at the Crossroads," which explores the bright and dark sides of Spotsylvania's growth; one story described how a draft budget submitted to the board of supervisors could more than double real estate taxes. The Star has also disclosed inefficiencies in the nearby Stafford County treasurer's office and detailed the deceptive sales techniques a developer used to sell vacation lots...
Within a week Stafford was strapped up and on his way, one of a small but growing number of prisoners, parolees and probationers who are serving their time at home. The idea has even been used most recently to quarantine an AIDS victim. An accused prostitute, she has been equipped with one of the new devices and was awaiting arraignment last week in the custody of her mother. "We needed to get her out of the jail because of real or imagined contagion," says Florida Judge Edward Garrison, who has championed use of the technology in his state...
...Corrections Commissioner Orville Pung. "He could be running a stolen-goods ring out of his house." The concept also prompts philosophical opposition. Says Joseph Vitek, director of corrections for Douglas County, Neb.: "It smacks of police state." Most / inmates, do not appear to be burdened by such considerations. Jeffrey Stafford, who is employed as a house painter, says he has every reason to make the idea work. "It would never enter my mind to tamper with the anklet," he claims. "This is a nice apartment. I hadn't had my own bed for a long time. I had Bunk...