West Mary Street Traffic Crisis Demands County Action
Editorial urges Finney County commissioners to fix West Mary from US 83 to Holcomb amid heavy, hazardous traffic and stalled funding. It notes planned US50 bypass, a potential $850,000 bond project south of Holcomb, and unresolved right of way work, warning the bottleneck worsens with growth and delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
US 83
Iowa Beef
Garden City
Holcomb
Finney County Emergency Medical Service
West Mary
West US 50
West Mary Street
Sunflower Electric
Sunflower
Mary Crossing
East Mary
IBP
Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
Finney County
P.Z
What's in a Name Arkansas Towns and Odd Locales
Dolores Hope lists Arkansas place names and categories drawn from her Uncle Ralph in Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas. The piece catalogs names of people cities plants numbers human traits and quirky toponymy such as Ash Flat Bald Knob Bee Branch Blue Ball Bright Star Calico Rock Caulksville Crossroads Evening Shade Frenchman Bayou Heth Hurricane Knob Ink Locust Bayou Magazine Marked Tree Oil Trough Ozone Pee Dee Pencil Bluff Pickles Creek Gap Pleasant Plains Ratio Saddle Three Creeks Twist West Point Woolly Hollow along with notable towns like Yellville Damascus Jerusalem and Hollywood.
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Ash Flat
Bald Knob
Bee Branch
Blue Ball
Bright Star
Calico Rock
Caulksville
Cornerstone
Crossroads
Duce
Evening Shade
Frenchman’s Bayou
Gravelly
Gum Springs
Heth
Horeshoe Bend
Hurricane Knob
Magazine
Marked Tree
Oil Trough
Ozone
Pea Ridge
Pee Dee
Pencil Bluff
Pickles Creek Gap
Pleasant Plains
Ratio
Saddle
Three Creeks
Twist
West Point
Woolly Hollow
Quiet diplomacy and human rights in Reagan era rhetoric
A satirical dialogue questions the Reagan administrations push for quiet diplomacy on human rights. It features Ernest Lefever and officials discussing how to handle reports of repression, village destruction, and the assassination of a foreign editor while seeking military aid and avoiding publicity. The exchange highlights tensions between realpolitik and political responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Lefever
Reagan
United States
Justice Department
U.S
Congress
America
Loyalty tests relaxed for minorities in Reagan era
Washington report notes the White House modified political loyalty tests for minority candidates to improve top-level representation. Vice President Bush highlighted the pledge to include more minorities, while concerns over conflicts of interest and a Bechtel executive at a Cabinet meeting are raised. Also covered is federal funding for rifle practice and a 10 day European trip by Secretary John Block.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Charles G. Moertel
Jefferson
Reagan
White House
Jimmy Carter
Joseph Califano
Carter
Reagan White House
Bush
Energy
James Edwards
Davis
Bechtel Power Corp
Edwards
Senate
DOE
National Board
John Block
Europe
Paris
London
Amsterdam
Hamburg
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Hagar Addition
Lewis Industrial Park
By Dolores Hope
Ralph
Oklahoma
Kansas
Beautiful Ozarks
Arkansas
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Pocahontas
Ethel
Louann
Ben Hur
Old Joe
Julius
Hector
Hollywood
Dogpatch
Gin City
Yellville
Ferndale
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartmen
Damascus
Jerusalem
Glenn Campbell
Moertel
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Arthur I. Holleb
American Cancer Society
New York Times
The
Times
the Times
Doonesbury
Mark
Joanie
Toon
James Kilpatrick
Art Buchwald
Jack Anderson
W. Kenneth Davis
Jack Mitchell
Bechtel
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