Garden City voters face housing and retail growth choices
The Garden City editorial urges residents to pick three city commissioners from incumbents Chris Law and Melvin Dale and challengers Janet Doll Harold Starr and Troy Unruh. It highlights housing shortages, tax base growth, Schulman Crossing retail development, and strengthening downtown, noting Doll’s business perspective and Unruh’s broad experience. It encourages public input online at GCTelegram.com/opinion.
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Garden City Commission
Chris Law
Melvin Dale
John Doll
Garden City
Kansas House
Janet Doll
Harold Starr
Troy Unruh
City Commission
Schulman Crossing
Doll
Unruh
Dale
Law
Hillary the Nation Ready for Clinton 2016 Run
Kathleen Parker weighs Hillary Clinton's return to public life as Obama tours the Middle East. With Hillary's image at its peak and the 2016 clock ticking, debates swirl over inevitability, duty, and the potential Bush Clinton matchup amid a maturing female electorate.
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Bill Clinton
Obama
Deus Ex Machina
Hillary
Clinton
Hillary Clinton
United States
Bill
Jeb Bush
Florida
Bush
Views miss the mark on girls soccer coverage
A reader thanks Garden City High School for coverage of the girls soccer home game on March 14 2013 and addresses a letter from Teresa Chagrin of PETA about shelter euthanasia. The letter cites Moonpie and Ricky, rescue fosters, and shelter efforts reducing dog kill rates while advocating better adoption practices and spay neuter.
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Garden City
Kevin Butler
Teresa Chagrin
PETA
Moonpie
Ricky
Donna Jones
Humane Society
Donna
Shelter
Ing
Luci Douglass
Lawmakers push welfare work requirement master plan
Online reader comments from GCTelegram.com react to an editorial on drug testing welfare recipients. Sam Henderson city planner discusses a fourth Downtown Garden City master plan meeting set for April 9 aiming to ensure a thorough process and avoid rushing the plan.
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Gctelegram.com
Sam Henderson
Garden City
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Why no war on Easter in the Christmas money game
The piece argues secularists push Christmas while Easter remains unchallenged because Easter yields far less profit. It cites talk show hosts and figures like Sarah Palin, and notes billions spent on Christmas versus Easter. It frames the topic as a profit driven cultural battle and questions why Easter eludes a so-called war.
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Bill O'Reilly
O'Reilly
Palin
Scrooge
CPAC
Americans For Prosperity
Eastre
Walmart
Frige
Jesus
Ayn Rand
God
Christ
Antarctica
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