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Garden City Downtown Inc Pursues Main Street Membership
Our View notes a late May deadline for the Kansas Main Street program membership application. Downtown Inc raw discussions emphasize assets like transportation and education, a regional shopping hub status, and a recovering economy as moderators while urging broad community involvement to strengthen the downtown revival effort.
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Garden City
Wntown Inc
Kansas
Downtown Inc
Your Views on County Resolution Meeting March 29
Citizens express concern over a proposed resolution giving the inspection department broad power. They worry about due process, potential staff increases, and loss of personal freedoms. The meeting is March 29 at 7 p.m. and residents are urged to attend, call, or write.
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Inspection Department
Melvin Neufeld
R-Ingalls
Dodge City
Melvin
Scoggins-Waite
Ethel Peterson
Local Government Contact Points in Garden City KS
Finney County Commission based at the County Administrative Center 311 N Ninth St Garden City KS 67846 and Garden City Commission at City Administrative Center 301 N Eighth St provide official civic contact details for county and city governance in Garden City Kansas.
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Ninth St
Garden City
Garden City Commission City
Eighth St
Telegram invites reader feedback and contact details
The Telegram invites readers to share feedback via email at editor gctelegram.com by fax by phone at 620 minutes, Attn Editor extension 201, or mail to Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City with a full contact address for correspondence.
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Historic US Constitution Preamble Quote Paraphrase
A fragment echoes the First Amendment idea about government limits on religion establishment and protection of free speech press assembly and petition. It references protecting rights to worship freely speak openly and pursue grievances with government.
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Wrong enemy, wrong reasons are myself imagining a news conference
The piece satirically imagines a 2001 news conference where the president mixes invasion plans with climate and economy questions. It then reviews Richard Clarke’s new book and 60 Minutes interview, accusing Bush of war fixation on Iraq and downplaying al Qaeda threats. Leonard Pitts critiques the administration’s motives and policy, noting rising U.S. casualties.
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Iraq
Sue
South Pole
Richard Clarke
60 Minutes
Clarke
White House
Congress
Dick Cheney
Bill Clinton
Qaida
Saddam Hussein
Administration
Treasury
Paul O'Neill
Baghdad
George W. Bush
U.S
Open government talks yield unlikely coalition compromise
Lawmakers report surprise and amusement at a rare alliance of media and local government groups that bargained over an open government bill. The groups later presented a unified plan, though House committee members remained wary as debates on sunshine laws continued and lobbyists sparred over school funding and policy priorities.
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House
Kumbaya
Judy Moler
Kansas Association of Counties
Water Worries Hover Over Great Plains Agriculture
Texas and Kansas led in drawing hidden water from the Ogallala Aquifer between 1940 and 2000, risking reserves as farmers consider crops like milo and sunflowers to extend life of the aquifer. Studies warn of arsenic and copper in reservoirs, fecal matter and sediments harming surface water, prompting a debate on future farming and town viability.
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Great Plains
Texas
Kansas
Ogallala
Lawrence
Kansas Geological Survey
University of Kansas
Gary Hecox
High Plains
Hecox
Sheridan
Sherman
Kyle Juracek
United States Geological Survey
EPA
Juracek
Paul Liechti
Kansas Biological Survey
Clinton Lake
Kelly Lenz
Wibw Radio
Topeka
Dave Ranney
Lawrence Journal-World
Jean Hays
Wichita Eagle
Loren Eisely
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