Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 25, 1990 TAG: 9005250510
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A12 EDITION: METRO
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The Brothers will keep their date with justifiably loyal listeners in Staunton until 1994, it was announced. Said a Happy Birthday U.S.A. official: "We feel the celebration can go on." True enough, but finding replacements won't be easy - even with five years to look for them.
\ THE SIERRA Club embarrassed a number of federal agencies recently by threatening to sue them for not complying with the District of Columbia's recycling law. One of them was the White House, which pleaded "problems because of all the classified documents and so forth." What are they saying - that since Ollie North left, nobody there knows how to use a shredder?
\ AFTER just a year in Pulaski County, and with three years remaining on his contract, school Superintendent James Burns has accepted the superintendent's job in Muscogee County, Ga. The Pulaski School Board apparently will let him go. If the shoe had been on the other foot, and the board had wanted to fire Burns after a year, would he have been so willing to release the county from the contract?
\ A NEW York City group, citing a drop in tourism and an exodus of corporations and residents, is trying to get New Yorkers to be more courteous. They face a tough challenge. The economic woes attributed to the city's famed incivility are apt to make worse, not better, the daily irritations said to cause the incivility.
\ ALL THE talk is of current and projected federal deficits. But past deficits, from the Reagan borrow-and-spend era, are the problem behind the problem. Credit Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in The New Republic, for this image: Servicing the national debt now requires all the income taxes collected west of the Mississippi.
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