Food subsidies and national security in American agriculture
Editorial urges careful debate on agricultural subsidies amid debt pressure. It notes oil's importance to policy, warns against sudden protectionism, and stresses maintaining safe, secure, plentiful U.S. food supply while acknowledging global competition and labor land costs. It warns of national security costs if farming shifts abroad.
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Washington
America
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Slavery at the Core of the Civil War, Lincoln’s View Revisited
The piece argues slavery, not states’ rights or economics, was the central cause of the Civil War. It cites Lincoln’s second inaugural address and contemporary scholars to show slavery shaped conflict from abolition through emancipation, shaping America’s national identity.
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Confederacy
Andrew E. Masich
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Heinz History Center
South
Jesse Jackson Jr
Fort Sumter
Chicago Tribune
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Harvard
Niall Ferguson
America
David Shribman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Chiefs urge reading of bioscience agency privatization
Public and private to the editor discuss Kansas Bioscience Authority funding from state and private sources. They warn of a coordinated right wing push to privatize civic services and predict an audit by governor appointees revealing grievances against KBA leadership. They claim a move to executive control and contract management to a Koch-backed front, with potential KBA outgrowths.
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Manhattan
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Public Forum Promoted by Kansas Billionaire Brothers
Barbara Palmer of Lawrence argues for private sector control of a public forum run by the Kansas brothers. A new corporate manager would earn a 12.5 million dollar base salary with at least one billion in severance for unethical conduct. Taxpayers fund government projects, but details would remain hidden under private sector contracting.
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Barbara Palmer
Lawrence
Wrong course letter condemns Kansas Legislature actions
Amanda S. Intravartolo urges readers to oppose tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy and to restore funding for public schools and the Kansas Neuro logical Institute. The letter argues the 2011 Legislature failed to create jobs, reduce revenue, and erode essential services, urging policy changes for better funding and accountability.
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Kansas Neurological Institute
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Amanda S. Intravartolo
Lawrence
Old Home Town in 1911 and 1986 Kansas seat belt bill
The Kansas House passes a controversial front seat belt mandate 63 to 62, aiming to reduce about 450 to 500 yearly traffic fatalities, with Rep. Jessie Branson of Lawrence backing it. A separate Lawrence welfare case ends $46 monthly aid for a local business owner, John Trede, who had loans totaling 12 500 and owned property and multiple vehicles. In 1911, Woodland Park in Lawrence debuts new swings and playground apparatus as spring brings color and activity, while a Boy Scout movement begins after YMCA promises a camp.
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Senate
Jessie Branson
D-Lawrence
Lawrence
Douglas County
John Tredo
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Trede
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Woodland Park
Y.M.C.A
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Christian Church
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