Pluto’s plummet: Tombaugh’s Kansas pride in Pluto
Kansans celebrate Clyde Tombaugh who confirmed Pluto in 1930, the dwarf planet verdict by the IAU. The piece notes Tombaugh’s Burdett upbringing, his work at Lowell and later Arizona, and a NASA mission launched this year carrying his ashes to study planet formation and the ongoing value of Pluto in science.
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Pluto
Clyde Tombaugh
Kansas
Burdett
Arizona
Percival Lowell
Tombaugh
International Astronomical Union
Kuiper Belt
Neptune
NASA
Tim Cruz for Kansas State Board of Education
A Garden City rally promotes Tim Cruz for the Kansas State Board of Education. The message highlights his community service as city commissioner and mayor, veteran status, and dedication to parents teachers and children. It urges support for Cruz on November 7 2006.
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Inney County
Southwest
Kansas
Garden City
Tim Cruz
Kansas State Board of Education
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Telegram invites signed letters to editor
The Telegram requests letters to the editor be signed with the writer’s address and phone number. All letters will be confirmed before publication and are subject to editing for libel and length. Letters should be 500 words or less. thank you notes should be general. Form letters poems consumer complaints or business testimonials will not be printed.
First Amendment text summary from historical reference
The First Amendment limits Congress from establishing a religion or prohibiting free exercise of religion or abridging freedom of speech or the press. It protects people’s rights to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
Information Age president seizes control of knowledge
Leonard Pitts argues George W. Bush mirrors Kennedy in leveraging media while curbing public access to state secrets. He cites blackouts on missile data and journalism manipulation as a dangerous seizure of information, warning an uninformed electorate threatens democracy.
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John F Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Nixon
George W. Bush
Kennedy
Bush
Washington Post
National Security Archive
George Washington University
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Wordplay and witticisms on language and politics
A reflective column muses on language usage from Churchill to Dabney and beyond, noting misused prepositions and strongholds in media and politics. It weaves quotes about sentences and calamities with lampooned advertising and speechwriting, ending with a humorous note on a failed home project.
Photo of Iwo Jima image founder Joe Rosenthal dies at 94
Photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, famed for the Iwo Jima flag raising image taken February 23, 1945, dies at 94. He won a Pulitzer but faced years of debate over staged elements while his work highlighted wartime realities amid broader photo manipulation concerns in journalism.
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U.S
Iwo Jima
Mount Suribachi
Suribachi
Middle East
Reuters
Telegram
Telegram Prep
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