Special gift inspires: Tanner aims for four golds at World Games
Olympian Tanner, 31, a Team USA powerlifter, trains in San Diego ahead of the Special Olympics World Games in Athens. From Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome to a positive mindset, he has competed since 2000 in Douglas County and Kansas Special Olympics, hoping to win four gold medals across three lifts and overall.
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Lawrence
End Eminent Domain Debate in St Louis Speech Fight
Washington columnist notes a clash over government use of eminent domain and sign permits in St Louis. Jim Roos challenges a city sign restriction as overbearing censorship, while scholars warn that judicial deference to government fuels arrogance and erodes individual liberty. The 8th Circuit weighs whether Roos may speak freely about government actions.
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U.S. Supreme Court
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Ohio
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Elizabeth Price Foley
Florida International University
Yale
America
John Adams
Foley
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Old Cemetery Visit by Lutheran Boys League
Lawrence Daily Journal-World recalls a 1911 Lutheran Boys League hike to a forgotten Santa Fe cemetery two miles west of town. The half acre site retains fifteen headstones and a soldier grave for Robert L. Hughes of the 1st Kansas Volunteers who died in 1862. The boys formed a military file around his sunken grave and planted a small flag emblem.
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Sarah St. John
King on labor rights echoes across time and unions
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s defense of labor and union rights, noting today’s strikes and anti union trends. He links King with Asa Philip Randolph Walter Reuther Crystal Lee Sutton and others while criticizing tax loopholes for GE and the broader shift against public workers and fair wages.
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