Editorial on Optional Taxes and Delinquent Property Bills
The piece critiques growing property tax delinquencies in Douglas County noting many builders delay payments as a business choice, while farmers face similar liquidity issues. Officials say delinquencies total up 41 percent but remain about 2 percent of receipts, with 2.5 percent budgeted delinquency. It argues publishing tax lists presses late payers and raises questions about a de facto county loan system.
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Douglas County
Paula Gilchrist
End of life counseling is not death panels says Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer argues Medicare funding for end of life counseling does not create death panels. He contends living wills are unreliable in ICU decisions and notes subtle societal pressure guiding patients toward hospice and palliative care through doctor-patient dialogue within reform. He warns against framing such discussions as sinister while acknowledging cost containment goals.
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Washington
Sarah Palin
Icu
Medicare
Charles Krauthaumer
Washington Post Writers Group
Lawrence Daily World
Albert Armstrong
H.H. Armstrong
Charles W. Barnes
Barnes
Nazis invective harms memory and respect in politics
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr denounces Nazi rhetoric in U S political discourse. He notes the prevalence of Hitler comparisons to Obama and Bush, links to dehumanizing propaganda, and urges caution to honor the victims of the Holocaust while condemning historical amnesia and careless insults.
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Joseph
Obama
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Google
Bush
Bush Limbaugh
U.S
America
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Chicago
Leonard Pitts Jr
Miami Herald
Miamiherald.com
Lawrence housing boom hits KU in 1984 August
Lawrence officials and Kansas University brace for a fall housing rush as vacancies shrink. Fred McElhenie notes housing taxed to the max amid private sector land-office activity. The Journal-World cites a possible Student Loan Marketing Association regional office and a city salary raise for City Manager Ray Wells.
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Lawrence
Kansas University
Fred McElhenie
Chamber of Commerce
Journal-World
Student Loan Marketing Association
Washington
Duane Schwada
Dela City
Geraldine Ferraro
Ferraro
Walter Mondale
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Chris Bell
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al Bonner
Tony Berg
Ed Ciambrone
the World Company
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Patrick Knorr
Dan Cox
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