City’s Eagle Bend Golf Course drains finances for years
Editorial argues city taxpayers subsidize Eagle Bend, an 18 hole course opened in 1998 east of Clinton Dam. Projections by a consultant overestimated demand and revenue, with rounds far below targets and rising greens fees. The city pays 320,000 yearly in bonds through 2016, while the land is freely loaned and exempt from taxes.
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Boog Highberger
Open race foreshadows 2008 party splits in primaries
Washington bureau chief Carl P. Leubsdorf analyzes how both parties face internal divides as they prepare for the 2008 presidential contest. Frist shifts on stem cell funding trigger conservative backlash while DLC and centrists shape Democratic strategy ahead of early Iowa New Hampshire Michigan and South Carolina contests.
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Tamara Scott
Iowa
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Bill Clinton
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New Progressive Legislative Action Network
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Michigan
South Carolina
George Allen
Virginia
Sam Brownback
Kansas
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Rudy Giuliani
New York
Mitt Romney
Massachusetts
McCain
Jimmy Carter
Clinton
Russ Feingold
Wisconsin
John Kerry
Howard Dean
Vermont
Kerry
Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Dallas Morning News
Give the man his job back Leonard Pitts on DeFede firing
Leonard Pitts Jr argues that reporter Jim DeFede should be rehired after he recorded a private phone call with Arthur Teele Jr. DeFede's firing is seen as excessive while Teele's suicide underscores flawed ethics and law issues. The piece condemns zero tolerance punishment and urges restoring DeFede's position.
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Metro
Miami Herald
Miami
Arthur E. Teele Jr
Teele
Miami New Times
Herald
Tom Fiedler
Jesus Diaz Jr
Florida
New York Times
Art Teele
The
Leonard Pitts Jr
Old Home Town Reflections and City Plans from 1905
Douglas County officials study a Kansas Bureau of Investigation report on alleged police brutality amid a KU commencement week arrest. Lawrence considers a joint city school swimming pool as work proceeds on a new city hall with the first Monday in the new facility being described as an enjoyable mess. Construction bids for a Lawrence Municipal Airport runway will be opened after FAA review. Local employment is projected to rise ahead of the school year, while a serious study of a joint city school swimming pool progresses. The 1905 Lawrence Daily World notes 14 prisoners in the county jail, political support for Gov. Hoch, and the passing of veteran salesman Daniel W. Shaw born 1828. Fort Worth inquiries into possible yellow fever case link to New Orleans outbreak.
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Mike Malone
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas University
Lawrence Municipal
Federal Aviation Administration
Sixth
Massachusetts
Mike Wildgen
Walter Johns
Lawrence Job Service
Lawrence
Lawrence Daily World
W.R. Stubbs
Hoch
Kelly
Daniel W. Shaw
Kansas
New York
Fort Worth
New Orleans
Texas
Letters Policy for The Journal World Public Forum
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