Kansans urged to embrace preventive care to fix health system
Kansas health officials warn of uninsured residents, rising Medicaid costs, and rural shortages. Governor Sebelius and Rep Moran push Healthy Kansas focusing on wellness in schools workplaces and elder care. Hospitals and insurers promote preventive care as personal responsibility becomes key to lowering costly health problems.
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Jerry Moran
R-Hays
Moran
Kansas
Kathleen Sebelius
St. Catherine Hospital
Garden City Recreation Commission
Attacks on ARAB IMMIGRANTS spark Australian debate
Airline passenger recounts tackling a man who charged the cockpit on a Honolulu flight. Australian Prime Minister John Howard denounces assaults on Arabs in Sydney, urging repudiation across communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andy Friendly
Santiago Los Tizol
Tizol
Honolulu
John Howard
Sydney
Telegram letters to editor policy overview
The Telegram invites signed letters with writer address and phone number for publication, noting all letters will be confirmed before printing. Letters pass editing for libel and length, kept to 500 words or less, with thank you notes general. form letters, poems, or business testimonials not printed.
First Amendment Caps Cited on Religion and Press Rights
A statement outlines the First Amendment protections including establishment of religion free exercise of religion freedom of speech freedom of the press the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
KDOT plan questions persist as state debates highway program
Secretary Deb Miller fights to preserve a 13.2 billion 10 year highway program while awaiting a decision on a new plan after 2009. The piece notes funding gaps, bonding, and tax debates driven by inflation and growth, with critics urging restraint and constitutional limits on taxes.
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PEKA
Deb Miller
Department of Transportation
Miller
KDOT
Phil Journey
R-Haysville
Senate Transportation Committee
Alan Cobb
Kansas
Americans For Prosperity
Cobb
Center For Applied Economics
University of Kansas
Chavez and cheap oil spark both aid and questions
Roger Hernandez analyzes Chavez's oil price gift to U.S. heating customers and its political ripple. He notes 40 percent discounts for low income households, rising Venezuelan poverty, recall and election battles, and praise amid criticism as Congress debates the motives and outcomes of Chavez's outreach.
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Boston
South Bronx
Hugo Chavez
Venezuela
Chavez
National Statistics Institute
Hugo
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Bernardo Nalvarez
Massachusetts
Edward Markey
William Delahunt
New York
Josté Serrano
Congress
Serrano
Democracy Now
Delahunt
Chavistas
More Readers Share Local Voices and Music Notes
In a Southwest Kansas piece Mia S Korbelik cites rising need for food medicine and utilities amid a tight Christmas. The letter notes United Methodist Mexican American Ministries faces heightened demand as its director of development highlights growing need. Bands featured list Louisville connections include The Murder By Death and Nuclear era names while other items cover teaching at community colleges and outmigration patterns.
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Kansas
Mia S. Korbelik
United Methodist Mexican American Ministries
Mia
MAM
Louisville
The
Accountants
Bad Blood
Black Cat Bone
Blood Cow
Blow Up
Bluegrass Anonymous
Blue Meridian
Blue Swing Shoot
Brothers of Conquest
Burt & the Instigators
Chickenland
Common Rotation
the Crispy Critters
Death Cab For Cutie
Dressin
Like Dad
Drunk Tank
Drunken Hillbilly Band
Serpent Wisdom
Seven Day Sun
David Arnold
Perspectives
American Historical Association
Arnold
Columbia Basin College
Pasco
Wash
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N. Seventh St
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Associated Press
John Hanna
Roger Hernandez
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rogereh
Optonline.net
King Features Syndicate
Volores
Garden City Telegram
Nebraska
Jeff Yost
High Plains Journal
Nebraska Community Foundation
Yost
Dolores Hope
Dandchope
Juno.com
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