Garden City eyes CIP plan to guide future growth
In a State of the City address Mayor Dan Fankhauser highlighted retail growth with new stores including Menards and upcoming Dick's Sporting Goods and Ulta. He cited a housing shortage as a major challenge while praising CIP involvement to shape streets, parks, trails, and year round sports facilities.
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Dan Fankhauser
Garden City
Menards
Dick’s Sporting Goods
Ross Dress For
Cato Fashions
Ulta Cosmetics
Fankhauser
CIP
City Commission
GOP stance on Social Security and health care cited
Online reader response to a GCTelegram story on House Republicans vowing to block a partial government shutdown and avert a national default while scrapping Obama care. It argues the GOP has sought to undermine Social Security for seven decades and will oppose universal health care in 2075.
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GOP
Gctelegram.com
U.S
Telegram letters policy notes editor guidelines
The Telegram invites signed letters under 500 words with writer address and phone. All letters are confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and length. General thank you letters are preferred. form letters, poems, consumer emails, or business testimonials will not be printed. Send to Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City KS 67846 or via www gctelegram com.
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N. Seventh St
Garden City
Food stamps and hunger in America a political critique
Tina Dupuy argues conservatives once saw aid as crime prevention and housing a robust poor class as a national asset while modern policy debates on SNAP reveal gridlock. The piece cites census data, Farm Bill fights, and subsidies, framing Congress as out of touch while millions face food insecurity and rising poverty.
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Obama
Nixon
America
Nikita Khrushchev
Taj Mahal
LBJ
Australia
Canada
Norway
Finland
GOP
Stephen Fincher
Tennessee
Book of Thessalonians
Congressional Budget Office
Congress
Fincher
House
Walmart
Home-tech wealth gap targets rich clients
Randy Stearns, a luxury home tech integrator, offers 24/7 white glove service for multi hundred thousand dollar projects as incomes skew higher for the top 1 percent. Analysts Saez and Piketty warn of widening inequality while policy shifts barely reverse gains for the rich, leaving middle America strained.
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Randy Stearns
Stearns
America
Emmanuel Saez
University of California Berkeley
Thomas Piketty
Paris School of Economics
Suez
Berkeley
Saez
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jay Bookman
Bookman
Desperate search for sanity in a gun saturated nation
A provocative critique argues America is terrified and increasingly armed after mass shootings. It notes gun culture, political stasis, and constitutional debates while contrasting a Texas black Buddhist shooter with NRA tropes. It cites Infoplease data, cites the Navy Yard and Iowa blind-permit debates, and ends with a plea for sanity.
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America
Texas
Wayne LaPierre
NRA
Infoplease.com
Almanac
Carmen de Patagones
Argentina
Erfurt
Germany
Tucson
Memphis
Cold Spring
Red Lake
Tacoma
Jacksonville
Aurora
Oakland
Newtown
Robert Kennedy
Arthur Schlesinger
Des Moines Register
State of Iowa
Navy Yard
Senate
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Jared Rutti
Garden City Recreation Commission
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TheContributor.com
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Yahoo.com
Cagle Cartoons Inc
Taylor Jones
el Nuc
Tina Dupuy Cagle
OtherWords
Sam Pizzigati
Institute For Policy Studies
Too Much
Words
Leonard Pitts
Miami
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