News Release from The Small Property Owner April 4,1997 Contact: F. Patricia Callahan, 202/244-6277 or [email protected]. AASPO web site: www.smallpropertyowner.com/~aaspo Repealing Rent Control in New York City "A city with no property rights is a city with no future." Jeff ...

Does the U.S. Senate care about new job creation? Anyone watching a recent Senate hearing on the airline industry could be forgiven for wondering. At issue: a proposed operating alliance between American and British Airlines that, if approved, will likely ...

MEMORANDUM BY STEVE FORBES April 2, 1997 TO: REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS FROM: STEVE FORBES, HONORARY CHAIRMAN, AMERICANS FOR HOPE, GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY SUBJECT: HERE THEY GO AGAIN! While Republicans fight each other over tax cuts, the Treasury Department ...

History: The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. Originally called "The First National Environmental Teach-in," Earth Day was modeled after the anti-Vietnam war teach-ins of the late 1960s. By some estimates, 20 million Americans participated in environmental ...

Letter to Senators Signed by Citizens Organizations on the Chemical Weapons TreatyThis is the letter to the U.S. Senate signed by citizens and representatives of citizens organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people concerned about provisions of the Chemical Weapons ...

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) purports to be a 1) global, 2) effective and 3) verifiable ban on chemical weapons. In fact, it is none of these and many believe it should be rejected by the Senate. First, many dangerous ...

How Many Days Did the American Worker Work for the Government in 1996? If you are a typical American worker, in 1996, you worked 184.6 days for government taxes and regulations. Specifically: 51.2 days for state and local taxes and ...

WORKING AMERICANS WAGE RESTORATION ACT PPROPOSED BY SENATOR JOHN ASHCROFT This proposal would provide an above the line deduction for the employee share of the Social Security portion of the FICA tax and the SECA tax. In calculating their income ...

"Repeal Affirmative Action Now!" screamed the headline of a recent article by Ward Connerly, the man primarily responsible for California's passage of the controversial Proposition 209, which ended racial preferences state-wide. Connerly argues that now is the perfect time for ...

by Michael Sharp (Michael Sharp, a member of the national Advisory Council of the African-American leadership group Project 21, is a freelance writer and hydrogen plant operator in Freemont, Ohio.) A New Visions Commentary paper published April 1997 by The ...