Courage and division haunt Kansas GOP leadership
The Kansas Republican Party splits into factions undermining Gov. Graves era. The editorial praises Graves' past but criticizes weak leadership and the Carla Stovall episode, warning of voter disillusion and fewer future-qualified candidates. It laments internal strife harming state progress and party strength.
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Sunflower State
GOP
Bill Graves
Salina
Tom Sawyer
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Senate
Graves
Republican Party
Dennis Moore
Moore
Carla Stovall
Stovall
Old Home Town Town Hall on urban renewal
More than 300 attended the first town hall meeting on urban renewal featuring Dick Daley of Atchison discussing the renewal project in his town. An April 17, 1902 Lawrence Journal note recalls society’s view on progress from bicycles to automobiles and the upcoming era of air ships.
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Dick Daley
Atchison
The
Lawrence Journal
Watkins Community Museum
Crisis grows in U S health care system noted
A Sacramento to Washington warning declares the health care system in crisis as CalPERS premium bids signal increases from 13 to 41 percent for current workers and families, with Medicare rates higher. Analysts expect about a 25 percent rise, marking unsustainable costs for both businesses and individuals.
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Washington
Sacramento
Capitol
White House
Caliornia
Calpers
California Public Employees’ Retirement System
California
CalPERS chief warns on health care costs and uninsured surge
David Broder reports CalPERS president William Crist warns that employer cutbacks and rising costs risk widening the uninsured, threatening a major issue in the 2004 election. He cites managed care limits, Medicare cuts, and a “downward death cycle” driving premiums up and coverage down. A coalition including AT&T and Safeway pushes for broad reform.
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William Crist
Calpers
Bill Clinton
White House
Crist
Congress
National Coalition On Health Care
At&t
Safeway
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
New York
Henry Simmons
David Broder
Washington Post Writers Group
Public Forum Letters Critique and Homelessness Article
A reader questions why a USA Today Life piece on EU students spending spring break learning homelessness in Washington DC was not in the Lawrence Journal-World. Another reader, Rabbi Ari Perl of Overland Park, rebukes a letter writer for equating Palestinian camps with Nazi camps and defends respectful discourse.
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USA Today
Washington, D.C
National Coalition For the Homeless
Lawrence Journal-World
Betty Marsh
Lawrence
Rabbi Ari Perl
Overland Park
JournalWorld
Journal World
Jworld.com
Middle East tensions and calls for policy change
Gary Henry argues the cycle of violence began in spring 2000 as a Palestinian response to Israeli concessions. He condemns Al Aqsa as a terrorist group for using a 16 year old in an attack and asserts military action reduced bombings. He faults European leaders for moral equivalence and supports possible withdrawal to pre 1967 borders.
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Israel
al Aqsa
Europe
Gary Henry
Lawrence
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al Bonner
Joe Lewis
Dolph Simons III
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New Ventures
Donna Wiley
Tom Hornbaker
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the World Company
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