Garden City resident Hahn joins task force on racial profiling
Angelica Hahn, marketing director for the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce, was named by Gov. Sebelius to Kansas's Task Force on Racial Profiling. The panel will study data collection on stops by law enforcement and foster community dialogue to curb profiling while promoting trust and fairness. Local voices stress broader community input and ongoing town hall engagement.
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Angelica Hahn
Hahn
Garden City Area
Kansas
Garden City
Nobel Peace Prize shared by IAEA and head ElBaradei
IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming called the prize a proud and astonishing day after the agency announced it would share the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize with its head Mohamed ElBaradei. The remarks followed a complex set of reactions from officials and the public.
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SAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
Melissa Fleming
Mohamed ElBaradei
Telegram letters policy and contact details
The Telegram accepts signed letters to the editor with the writer’s address and phone number. All letters are confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and length. Keep letters under 500 words. thank you notes should be general. Contact options include email fax phone or mail to Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City KS.
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Garden City
Abridging Rights Mentioned in a Historic Text
A line references the First Amendment limits on government power. It discusses establishing religion prohibitions, free exercise, freedom of speech and press, assembly, and petition for redress of grievances. The text highlights core constitutional protections and citizen remedies.
Conflating race and crime upsets a Miami father
Leonard Pitts recounts a family’s arrest ordeal and a prosecutor’s failed charges amid a wider critique of how race is linked to crime. He recalls his son, a tall Black man, mistreated during an armed robbery search, the acquittal of the suspect, and the lasting impact on his family. He argues William Bennett’s racial crime rhetoric mirrors a harmful pattern.
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New Orleans
William Bennett
Bennett
All Things
Moral
U.S
Justice Department
Miers as crony or crusader in Supreme Court talks
Ellen Goodman surveys Harriet Miers’s nomination amid mixed signals and partisan dividing lines. The piece weighs Miers’s background, affiliations, and possible impact on abortion debates, court philosophy, and loyalty to President Bush versus the Constitution.
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Oston
Maine
Martin
Supreme Court
Harriet Miers
George
Twitch
Texas Supreme Court
Nathan Hecht
Miers
Harriet
Rush Limbaugh
Operation Rescue
William Kristol
Richard Viguerie
Ing
Hecht
David Frum
Bush
Janice Brown
White House
Unwinnable war on terror and political critique
Essay argues the war on terror is unwinnable and designed to sustain fear and industry. It contrasts conventional war logic with pursuing criminals, cites Israel as a futile model, and accuses Bush and neoconservatives of misleading the public while criticizing U.S. Middle East policy and Iraq occupation.
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Europe
Osama bin Laden
Israel
Bush
Persian Gulf
Iraq
White House
Democratic Party
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