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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 2002
Page
4
Economic forecasters project a potential 1 billion shortfall in revenue by June 30, 2004, with a required 225 million in spending cuts to avert a deficit. Governor Graves questions the approach as Sebelius prepares to address budget gaps while urging stronger job creation and aggressive economic development with lieutenant governor John Moore.
Elizabeth Dole proclaims a night of victories as seven newly elected Republican senators pull ahead. Ari Fleischer hails Bush party gains while the White House signals leadership changes. SEC chairman Harvey Pitt resigns in a letter to the President as part of the evolving administration shifts.
Highlights recount political shifts and notable deaths on November 6. Benjamin Harrison’s 1888 victory over Grover Cleveland in electoral votes, Lincoln’s 1860 bid, Jefferson Davis’s 1861 election, Tchaikovsky’s 1893 death, McKinley and Bryan in 1900, Hughes in 1906, Hoover’s 1928 win, Eisenhower’s 1956 re election, Kennedy’s 1962 Senate win, Hooks chosen NAACP executive director in 1976.
The author honors Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone as a principled liberal who spoke for ordinary people, contrasts his populism with poll driven politics, worries about Republican control of the Senate, and blames negative campaigning and a degraded education system for low voter turnout and citizen disengagement. He notes George W. Bush’s democracy rhetoric in Iraq and recounts Kaul’s three decades covering Washington.
Duane West writes that Sunflower Electric’s 350 megawatt coal plant at Holcomb faces water rights hurdles and ballooning costs. He urges city or private wind farms at Buffalo Dunes or near the airport, plus solar panel development to reduce costs and oil dependence amid global tensions.
In Into the West Walter Nugent forecasts ongoing western population gains into the mid 21st century and beyond. He notes California and the West will grow older and browner with Hispanics potentially becoming the largest minority by 2010 and a quarter of the population by 2050. He warns the next half millennium may bring a new national narrative and possible cultural splits between an Anglo interior and a multicultural coastal West.
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