Take-Charge Challenge aims to reward energy savers in Kansas towns
Six Kansas communities Mount Hope Haven Kinsley Quinter Merriam Salina and Wellington join a year long contest sponsored by the Climate and Energy Project to cut energy use. Residents adopt energy efficient windows insulation CFLs caulking weather stripping and shorter showers. The April 2010 finale offers a solar panel wind turbine or a $10 000 grant as prizes for the winning city building project.
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Climate and Energy Project
Midwest
Mount Hope
Haven
Kinsley
Quinter
Merriam
Salina
Wellington
Partici
Promoting Energy Efficiency Through SWKTalk Competition
Local discussion urges Kansas communities to adopt energy saving practices. The Climate and Energy Project notes Kansas ranks low in efficiency and highlights six selected cities as high usage examples. Garden City and others not in the contest can still run incentives to motivate residents toward affordable, long term savings.
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Climate and Energy Project
Garden City
Telegram invites signed letters to editor policy
The Telegram prints signed letters to the editor with writer address and phone number. All letters are checked before publication and may be edited for libel and length. Letters should be under 500 words. thank you notes are general. Form letters, poems, complaints or business testimonials will not be printed.
First Amendment text of freedom of religion speech and press
The First Amendment limits government power on religion free exercise free press and assembly and protects petitioning the government for redress of grievances. It enshrines five core rights in one constitutional amendment.
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Walter Cronkite and the era of trusted news
An appreciation of Walter Cronkite’s avuncular presence and the era’s trusted journalism. The piece recalls his steady, unemotional delivery that helped shape public perception during crises such as Vietnam. It notes his Tet Offensive farewell as pivotal and the lasting impact on media credibility.
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A new style of colonialism in Paraguay foreign interests rise
The World Bank pushes land sales to investors, displacing peasants as transgenic soy boosts exports. Monsanto seeds and Roundup feed big agribusiness, while Cargill and ADM buy Paraguay soy. US training, Brazil expansion, Lugo’s elections offer little change amid repression and corruption.
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Pay-Go bill backs a path to fiscal discipline debated
The pay-as-you-go measure praised by Obama and Democrats aims to offset new tax cuts or entitlements with equivalent savings or revenue. Critics warn loopholes exempt Medicare payments and estate taxes, risking larger deficits through 2010 to 2019 while lawmakers defend exemptions to secure passage.
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