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Since President Reagan took office, talk of selling surplus public lands and other real property has been accelerated. Indeed there has been considerable talk of earmarking monies derived from such sales toward reducing the $1 trillionplus national debt. Earlier this year President Reagan initiated a new property program aimed at imiproving management o federal holdings… Continue reading Public Ldnd Sole Good Idea

Labor Day, which had its beginnings a hundred years ago, is commemorated today, its luster dimmed by high unemployment but with cautious hope the recession may be waning. On June 28, 1894, Congress enacted a law pro claiming the federal holiday to honor the nation’s laborers–which, in the broad modern interpretation, includes a big percentage… Continue reading Labor Day ’82 Offers Hope

An issue of growing urgency which Congress will have to face is funding of necessary repairs to the 25-year-old U.S. interstate highway system. The 43.000-mile network of roads need $55 billion to make necessary repairs to aging roadbeds and complete the remaining 1.575 miles of the system, according to a Congressional Budget Office report, Without… Continue reading lnterstutes Must Be Repuired

One of our strengths as a nation is the right of dissent–but surely the Bill of Rights never was intended to protect those who would contemptuously burn or desecrate the American Flag. Faith in the Supreme Court to interpret the right of this country to protect its sacred symbols was bolstered by the high court’s… Continue reading No ‘Right’ to Desecrute Flag

A good case for future statehood for Puerto Rico was made in a letter by Rep. Paul Simon. D-Ill. to his constituents. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth and that status means “second class citizenship” just as it formerly did for Hawaii andAlaska. said Simon. “The day will come,” he asserted. “when Puerto Rico will either… Continue reading Should Puerto Rico Be c1 State?

Vice President George Bush made some pertinent points when he questioned the appropriateness of the Democrats’ “instant criticism” of President Reagan’s recent Central American policy speech. Speaking in Washington to the American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, Bush contrasted Republican support for President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis with the quick Democratic blast… Continue reading ‘Instunt Criticism’ May Have Lusting Eff-acts

Congressman Jim Hansen’s return of $70,000 to the U.S Treasury from his office expense allotment is a leadership example his colleagues would do well to follow – not only in their own office budgets but the nation’s budget as well. The $70,000 Hansen put back in the federal coffer is about 15.9 percent of his… Continue reading People Praise Hansen for Move

Out of the wrangling by U. S. senators over their salaries and outside income has come a highly interesting proposal for reform of the congressional compensation and work arrangement. Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R.-Tenn. called for limiting annual sessions of Congress to a maximum seven mont.hs and cutting salaries to $36,000. In… Continue reading Senate Needs Reform, Not Money

The State of Utah’s computerized program to collect from defaulting deb tors through withholding income tax refund checks has logged considerable success in its four-plus years of operation. Indeed it miglht offer some ideas for of er states involved with the perennial problem of de inquent bills. Called ‘Gotcha’ for lack of a more formal… Continue reading Utah ‘G0tchu’ Project Successful

As a voting citizen, have you ever experienced the “hollowness” that comes from knowing absolutely that your ballot in the presidential election does not matter? Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore. applied that term in describing the plight of hundreds of thousands of westerners who have “suffered a systematic devaluation of their votes” because of early television… Continue reading Western Voters Need Protection