Health champions honored at Kansas Obesity Summit
Lisa Moritz of Tribune named state health champion for promoting nutrition exercise and school wellness. Garden City USD 457 wellness team earned honorable mention for district wide health activities. Summit urged new strategies to curb Kansas obesity, which rose from 15 percent in 1995 to 30.1 percent in 2010.
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Lisa Moritz
Tribune
Greeley County
Moritz
Kansas
Garden City
USD 457
Sam Brownback
Governor’s Council On Fitness
Quotes on education funding and health exchange issues
Online comments on Garden City USD 457 student count urge more teachers and funds. A separate story notes US Rep Tim Huelskamp cites online marketplace problems as ACA enrollment opens, with users unable to log in.
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Gctelegram.com
Garden City Usd
Tim Huelskamp
R Fowler
Kansas
Garden City letters policy found in Telegram notice
The Telegram invites signed letters under 500 words with writer address and phone. All letters will be confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and length. General form letters and non letters will not be printed. Address Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City KS 67846. Online www gctelegram com.
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Case of delusion in shutdown
Dana Milbank recalls the Capitol briefcase incident and the House GOP bid to defund Obamacare amid a looming shutdown. He details late afternoon brinkmanship, volatile exchanges, and the last minute move to send the Senate a one year delay plan as the deadline neared.
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Capitol
Eric Cantor
R-Va
GOP
Obama
Congress
Washington Post-Abc News
John Boehner
Ohio
Senate
James Sensenbrenner
Wis
CBS News
Nancy Cordes
Jason Chaffett
Utah
NBC
Andrea Mitchell
John McCain
Ariz
Andrea
Darrell Issa
Public Radio International
Todd Zwillich
California
Jack Kingston
United States
Boehner
Size matters with government in a polarized era
Tom Purcell examines how Gallup data shows 60 percent of Americans feel the federal government is too powerful, with polarization across parties and debates on entitlement programs and NSA power. He notes 81 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of Democrats share concerns, while some nonpartisans remain skeptical of political bias shaping views.
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Gallup
Joy Wilke
Obama
Bush
NSA
Arthur Brooks
The
American Enterprise Institute
Factory farms face lawsuits over water pollution data
Food & Water Watch has filed two lawsuits against the EPA to compel information gathering on factory farms pollution. The group argues large meat and poultry companies avoid accountability by outsourcing operators. A FOIA request seeks records on factory farms, while a Farm Bureau suit challenges disclosure of owner data. The petitions call for public access to data under FOIA and insist the EPA reveal the scope of pollution from farms nationwide.
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Big Ag
Food & Water Watch
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Wenonah Hauter Leads Food & Water Watch Founder of Foodopoly
Wenonah Hauter serves as executive director of Food & Water Watch and authored Foodopoly The Future of Food and Farming in America She is associated with the publication distribution on OtherWords.org
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Food & Water Watch
America
Otherwords
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