Editorial: Paying the price for privatized adoption
The piece argues subcontractors supplying services for Kansas children awaiting adoption are reluctant to renew contracts after Lutheran Social Services faced near bankruptcy and offered 74 cents on the dollar. It notes state funds route through multiple subcontractors, with variable service quality, and calls for stronger oversight, audits, and potential extra state funding to ensure adequate, well spent care for children in foster and adoption programs.
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Kansas
Kansas Children’s Service League
KCSL
Lutheran Social Services
Lutheran
Democrats split over direction in California leadership race
The piece analyzes a factional split within the Democratic Party as Nancy Pelosi and Ellen Tauscher clash with Steny Hoyer over the party’s future. It notes Tauscher backs centrist businessman allies and DLC chief Al From, while Pelosi leads liberal currents. It discusses how post election moderates may shape House policy amid labor and activist pressure.
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Los AngeLes
Nancy Pelosi
Ellen Tauscher
California
San Francisco Bay
House
Pelosi
Tauscher
Steny Hoyer
Maryland
Democratic Party
Democratic Leadership Council
DLC
San Francisco
National Party
al From
Bill Clinton
Joe Lieberman
al Gore
Congress
From
Dick Gephardt
Gephardt
Michigan
David Bonier
China
Staples Center
Campaign For America’s Future
John Sweeney
Afl-Cio
Bob Chase
National Education Assn
Jesse L. Jackson
Rainbow-Push
David Broder
Washington Post Writers Group
Protesters lack clear goals in a noisy era of street demos
Leonard Pitts argues that multi-issue protests across Seattle, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles fail to present single, concrete demands. He contrasts historic movements with today’s unfocused rallies, noting strong causes but muddled messaging and a failure to inspire clear action.
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Seattle
D.C
World Trade Organization
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
CNN
Ralph-Nader
Birmingham
Chicago
Leonard Pitts
The
Micmerald
Public Forum Denounces East Leg of SLT Trafficway
Michael St Almon of Lawrence writes that officials 15 years of closed meetings produced a flawed plan for the Sout Lawrence Trafficway eastern leg. He cites overbudget right of way, exhausted federal funds, ignored environmental safeguards, and destruction of Elkins Prairie and the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, urging no paving over the wetlands and noting negligible time savings.
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Lawrence
KDOT
EPA
FHWA
Elkins Prairie
Haskell Indian Nations University
Iowa Street
Haskell-Baker
23Rd Street
Braase
Michael St. Almon
Airplane crash injures KU professor near Lawrence
Leland Miller a 48 year old Kansas University occupational therapy professor from Tonganoxie escaped serious injury when his 1938 Porterfield 35W single engine airplane crashed in a newly harvested cornfield east of Lawrence Municipal Airport. He was flying alone.
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Lawrence Municipal
Leland Miller
Tonganoxie
Kansas University
Porterfield
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