Garden City growth hinges on housing and incentives
Garden City Mayor John Doll urged focusing on affordable housing to attract residents and events. City Commission moved to ease development costs with a housing incentive policy and a single contact point for builders. With Sunflower Electric’s expansion potentially bringing up to 2000 workers, housing topples as the key growth hurdle.
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Arden City
John Doll
Garden City
Chamber of Commerce
Doll
City Commission
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Kansas Leads State Role in Academic Science Standards
Online readers react to a Kansas feature in today’s edition about street car drag racing, with quotes praising the state’s potential as a national model for school science standards and reflecting broader debate over classroom subjects. Janet Robinson of Garden City recalls a car shift metaphor while discussing speed.
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Gctelegram. Com
Kansas
Janet Robinson
Garden City
Letters Policy for The Telegram Readers
The Telegram invites signed letters to the editor with writer contact details for publication. Letters must be 500 words or less and may be edited for libel and length. Address Attn Editor 310 N Seventh St Garden City Kansas 67846 or email editor gctelegram online www gctelegram com.
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N. Seventh St
Garden City
Warren Tax Talk Overshadows Practical Economic Debate
Rich Lowry critiques Elizabeth Warren's defense of higher taxes on the rich as part of a social contract. He contrasts her views with Gates era entrepreneurship and warns that pursuing broad taxation ignores growth, poverty, and real-world economic limits. The piece frames Warren as left populist highlighting collective action over individual initiative.
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Warren
Barack Obama
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
John Edwards
Ron Paul
Democratic Party
Elizabeth Warren
Obama
Facts do matter in politics on Michele Bachmann
In a June 11 2011 critique Jilka argues Bachmann’s campaign exposed a pattern of truth bending. The piece notes a John Wayne misattribution linking to John Wayne Gacy and cites PolitiFact findings showing most Bachmann statements false or pants on fire. It contrasts her claims on slavery abolition and Obama policy with facts, and cites subsidies to the family farm and HPV vaccine controversy.
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Michele Bachmann
John Wayne
Winterset
Iowa
Bachmann
John Wayne Gacy
Politifact.com
St. Petersburg
Fla
Politifact
Face the Nation
Bob Schieffer
John Quincy Adams
Obama
Schieffer
Rick Perry
Texas
American Academy of Pediatrics
Bachman
Barack Obama
Congress
Bachmann challenged on vaccines and facts by bioethicists
Leonard Pitts credits Dr. Miles and Dr. Caplan for offering cash to test Michele Bachmann's claim linking HPV vaccines to intellectual disability. Bachmann faced backlash after calling HPV vaccination a government injection during a Tampa debate, with silence seen as a mark of her stance.
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Teven Miles
Arthur Caplan
Miles
University of Minnesota
Michele Bachmann
Caplan
University of Pennsylvania
Center For Bioethics
Bachmann
Minnesota
Tampa
Fla
Texas
Rick Perry
Fox “News
Today
Jon Ky
John Quincy Adams
Stephen Colbert
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Nationalreview.com
Rich Lowry King Features Syndicate
Jilka
Jilka Furniture
Salina
Leonard Pitts
Miami
Heral
Spitts
Miamiherald.com
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