Established 1906 out TELEGRAM People Informing People
Historic note announces the Telegram newspaper with the slogan People Informing People and credit to the editor publisher as the longtime voice since 1906. The brief lines present ownership lineage and editorial mission in concise form.
Kansas Board Faces Republican Pushback Over School Finance Plan
Kansans recall a conflict as the State Board of Education backed its brief to the court calling the plan an interim step and urging strike of tax-raising provisions. Republicans led by Attorney General Phill Kline objected, accusing the board of being uncooperative and political while urging the court to consider cost studies. Chairman Steve Abrams defended the board’s stance amid calls for a toned down position.
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Kansas State Board of Education
Dan Biles
Biles
Phill Kline
State Board
Kline
Steve Abrams
Austin smoking ban sparks voices from bars to salami drives
In Austin the proposed ban on smoking in bars bowling alleys and pool halls draws mixed reactions from Paul Silver owner of 219 West Sara Hickman singer songwriter Meinhardt Raabe Wizard of Oz actor and deli owner Marc Brummer who plans salami shipments to the 42nd Infantry Division in Tikrit Iraq reflecting local debate and humanitarian gestures.
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Paul Silver
West
Austin
Texas
Sara Hickman
Meinhardt Raabe
Deli
Marc Brummer
Michael
42Nd
Tikrit
Iraq
Telegram invites reader letters to editor for publication
The Telegram asks letters to be signed with writer address and phone number and states all letters will be confirmed before publication. Letters may be edited for libel and length and kept under 500 words. Thank you notes should be general. form letters and testimonials will not be printed. Address Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City KS 67846 or email to submit.
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N. Seventh St
Garden City
First Amendment text as a constitutional provision
The First Amendment restricts Congress from establishing a religion or prohibiting its free exercise and bars Congress from abridging the freedom of speech or the press. It also protects the right of the people to assemble peacefully and to petition the Government for grievances.
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Congress
Barbarians at the gate in US TV and real life debate
A TV critique links Fox's 24 and real life policy debates on torture. The piece argues for harsh interrogation tactics as necessary in war and cites an Army manual restricting methods, urging stronger measures and a Bauer style approach to save lives.
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O: Fox
Counter- Terrorism Unit
CTU
Jack Bauer
Kiefer Sutherland
Habib Marwan
Marwan
United States
ACLU
US. Army
Abu Ghraib
The
New York Times
Nario
Amy Vanderbilt
Army Brass
America
God
Notorious mob baits and political sleaze mix in Delay and Bolton chat
Washington column riffs on 14 Second City mobsters plotting murders and nicknamed figures like Tony The Ant Spilotro. It contrasts mob quotes with DeLay ethics probes and Bush Cheney poke fun, praising sleaze metaphors while noting Bolton’s odd UN nomination.
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Feds
Second City
Outfit
Las Vegas
Tony
Joseph
Lombardo
Frank
Schweibs
Frank “Gumba
Saladino
House
Tom
DeLay
God — God
NRA
Houston
Congress
Bush
Dick “Chainsaw
Cheney
John
Bolton
Bush Gang
United Nations
Freddie
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bugsy” Nixon
Rural Interstates And Rural Growth Notion Questioned
A High Plains Journal column argues no evidence shows rural areas benefit from avoiding inter states. It notes rural U.S. growth in the 1990s, traffic fatality share on non inter state roads, and comments on other topics including Jim Wallis book tours and aging educators.
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Trent Loos
High Plains Journal
Loos
America
U.S
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