Kansans urged to demand real dialogue from candidates
Our View questions the meaning of Shallenburger and Sebelius no tax pledges and tax policy. The column notes both candidates dodge specifics on a projected $800 million shortfall, offering vague plans rather than concrete budgets, and calls for substantive debate beyond sound bites.
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Fet
Tim Shallenburger
Shallenburger
Harris Group
Overland Park
Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius
Hurricane Lili prompts disaster warning from NHC director
Max Mayfield warns of a developing catastrophe as Hurricane Lili approaches the Louisiana coast. He cautions the storm could be the worst to strike the region since records began. Separate statements accuse Martha Stewart insider trading and defend Amiri Baraka's controversial poem amid calls for resignation.
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Max Mayfield
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Lili
Louisiana
On This Day History Highlights October 3
Today in history events include Wally Schirra’s Oct 3 1962 launch aboard Sigma Seven for a nine hour flight from Cape Canaveral, Lincoln declaring Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday in November 1863, and the 1952 premiere of Our Miss Brooks on CBS. Also notes: Yugoslavia renamed in 1929, Hitler 1941 Berlin speech, Roosevelt 1942 OES creation, Giants pennant 1951, Maze hunger strikes end 1981.
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Wally Schirra
Cape Canaveral
Lincoln
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Russia
Miss Brooks
CBS
Eve Arden
Maze
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Kans Capitol to Reinforce Dome for Ad Astra Statue
Topeka plans spend around 750000 to reinforce the Capitol dome for the 22 foot tall Ad Astra statue set to be installed in early October. The proposal prompts debate on whether public art spending is a prudent use of taxpayer funds.
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Dip State
Capitol
Topeka
Suit seeks truth in 1989 CBOT bean collapse case
Six farmers sue the Chicago Board of Trade in a 13 year delayed federal suit alleging the CBOT and CFTC caused the July 1989 soybean futures crash to bail out insiders. Ferruzzi and Central Soya held major long positions while the market tanked, with officials resigning amid later scandals.
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George Orwell
Chicago Board of Trade
CBOT
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CFTC
Ferruzzi Group
Soya
Senate Ag Committee
Ferruzzi
Shorts
Senate
Garrett Johnson
Johnson
Karsten Mahlman
Stotler & Co
Stotler
Mahlman
London
Bush uses fetuses to push policy on immigrants and care
Kathleen Parker argues Bush leverages fetuses as unborn children to extend prenatal health benefits to pregnant immigrants and the poor, framing it as compassion while critics call it cynical. She notes the regulatory approach bypasses Congress and aligns with anti abortion goals, praising consistency in hardline stance.
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George W. Bush
United Nations
Iraq
Bush
Health and Human Services
Tommy Thompson
Thompson
Laurie Rubiner
National Partnership For Women and Families
Iraq offer inspection push signals new UN US cooperation
Daniel Smith argues Sept. 16 UN and Bush speeches align to press Iraq on unconditional weapon inspections. While Iraq has pledged before, a real base and logistics for inspectors are needed, with Blix leading the effort and sovereignty tensions managed to avoid impeding disarmament and international law enforcement.
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Kofi Annan
Iraq
United Nations
United States
George W. Bush
U.N. Security Council
Saddam Hussein
Arab League
Annan
Bush
Security Council
U.S
Hans Blix
U.N
Blix
Kuwait
Saddam
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Steve Delaney
Bill Draper
Delaney
Draper
Martha Stewart
Seth Taube
Securities and Exchange Commission
Stewart
New Jersey
Amiri Baraka
America
James McGreevey
Baraka
Israel
Roosevelt
Office of Economic Stabilization
New York Giants
Bobby Thomson
Brooklyn Dodgers
AniTrak
Rar
Wendy Gramm
Enron Board of Directors
Enron
Alan Guebert
Aguebert
Worldnet
Art
Farm & Food File
Alan Gueber
Garden City Telegram
Mathiesen Parke
Orlando Sentine
United States of America
Kathleen Parker
Kparker
Kparker.com
Daniel Smith
West Point
Friends Committee On National Legislation
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