Kansas editorial opposes Trump cuts to Amtrak and EAS
Southwest Kansas officials maintain transport links with improved airline service and rail. The piece argues President Trump’s budget would cut 2.4 billion to air rail road and transit programs, end daily Amtrak service on the Southwest Chief through Garden City and eliminate Essential Air Service. It urges Congress to oppose reductions and defend rural infrastructure.
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Kansas
Trump
Amtrak
Garden City
Essential Air Service
Dodge City
Great Bend
Hays
Liberal
Salina
Shrine Bowl for baseball excites Finney County CVB
Roxanne Morgan, executive director of the Finney County Convention and Visitors Bureau, says the proposed budget story could turn the area into a shrine of baseball, calling the high school project unique in the state and highly exciting. An online editor’s note referenced reader comments responding to a separate Trump budget cuts story.
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Gctelegram.com
President Trump
Roxanne Morgan
Finney County Convention and Visitors Bureau
CVB
Letters to the editor guidelines from The Telegram
The Telegram welcomes signed letters with writer address and phone number. All letters will be confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and length. Not printed: form letters poems consumer complaints or business testimonials.
Fox News and the truth versus Trump rhetoric
A column critiques Fox News coverage and Fox & Friends for normalizing Donald Trump while Shepard Smith is praised for defending press integrity. It contrasts journalistic truth with political propaganda, cites media slogans, and questions the era of “truth” under a polarized presidency.
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Fox News
Shepard Smith
Donald Trump
Fox
Fox & Friends
Trump
Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
Chicago Tribune
Stephen Colbert
Russia
Harry Truman
Harry
Truman
Debating college attendance goals and higher ed policy
Dr. John Richard Schrock argues against fixed college-going targets for high school graduates and warns such aims threaten public universities. He cites Asia’s overbuilding lessons, notes economic pressure from tuition reliance, and urges valuing skilled trades and diverse paths to success. He highlights retention pressures and quality concerns for public university degrees.
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Lumina Foundation
Hong Kong
Asia
China
Taiwan
Korea
East China Normal
Marshall health care test poses district loyalty challenge
U S Representative Roger Marshall faces a defining test over repealing the Affordable Care Act as the Congressional Budget Office warns 24 million would lose coverage. Kansas Big First ranks high in uninsured rates and reliance on government health programs, provoking district scrutiny.
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Roger Marshall
Tim Huelskamp
Huelskamp
Pat Roberts
Jerry Moran
Kansas
Marshall
Congressional Budget Office
Congress
Wichita-area
STAT
Jesus
Emporia Town Hall
Big First
Sterling
Salina
Caela Wood
First Congregational Church
Manhattan
Andrew McHenry
First Congregational Church of
Emporia
Michael P. Milliken
Episcopal
Western
Kansas House
Conservative Freedom Caucus
Godspeed
Professor Michael A Smith Leading Emporia State Political Science
Michael A. Smith serves as a professor of political science at Emporia State University, contributing expertise in governance, public policy, and political theory within the department.
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Michael A. Smith
Emporia State University
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Insight Kansas
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