Parkinsons top priorities rebuild reserves and corrections funding
Editorial notes Gov Mark Parkinson urged restoring reserves and key Department of Corrections programs as Kansas faces a budget shortfall. It warns that further cuts threaten safety, raise homelessness, and increase recidivism by reducing treatment slots and mental health support, urging no new cuts and rapid restoration.
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Afghistan policy view urges joint Pak stability strategy
Trudy Rubin argues that the Afghanistan problem cannot be solved alone and urges stabilizing Pakistan as essential. She notes low public support for further troop deployment, calls for advancing Afghan local governance and security forces, and stresses diplomacy with India and Pakistan to counter jihadi networks while avoiding a Taliban revival.
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Higuchi Endowment Awards And Teaching Professorships Named
Three KU professors Robert Casad Gilbert Crestwald and Beatrice Wright were honored with 1984 Higuchi Endowment Research Awards while John Kepes George Lawner and Elizabeth Schultz received KU Endowment Association Teaching Professorships. A.L. Selig to become county poor commissioner after Sept 1 inspected the county poor farm south of town and promised possible improvements.
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Misleading claims in representative letter to editor
Reader criticizes Rep Lynn Jenkins for a form letter that claims a 239 billion deficit and 818 billion in new taxes. The writer notes the 239 billion figure stems from Medicare physician payment reform already overdue, while taxes would only affect high earners above 280k single or 500k family, not the vast majority.
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Lynn Jenkins
Public forum on health coverage subsidies and local taxes
Dr Steven Bruner warns in a public forum that 96 percent of small businesses back a tax free system for those unable to afford coverage with subsidies on premiums. He notes calls for honesty from representatives and links funding to personal property taxes for bicycles to support trails. Richard Wingfield Lecomptonopinion.
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Lawrence
Richard Wingfield
Lecompton
Letters raising values and wetlands concerns in Lawrence
Readers critique front page values at KU seat sales and $15,000 tickets while highlighting homelessness. The letter-writer urges greater charity and bicycling safety. The note then discusses wetlands restoration near Wakarusa, hydraulic soils, SLT route conflicts, and historic drainage, ending with Journal-World letters policy and submission details.
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