Kansan lawmaker faces temporary vacancy in National Guard duty
Editorials argue Rep. Lee Tafanelli must choose between a year without a representative for Kansas House District 47 or resigning. Tafanelli, re-elected, leads the 891st Engineer Battalion set to deploy to Iraq, creating an unavoidable vacancy in Jefferson and Atchison counties and no provision for a temporary substitute.
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Education boards should be left alone for now
From the Lawrence Daily World on December 18 1904 a call to keep politics out of school boards while praising Salvation Army for a Christmas aid drive. The piece notes efforts to ensure every Lawrence child has a merry Christmas with food and presents for families in need and requests for assistance.
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Court appointments will ignite a fierce battle in 2005
Peter A. Brown argues that a Bush Supreme Court nomination will trigger a brutal, ideological fight shaping democracy, with eight of nine justices over 65 and the White House, Senate Republicans, and major interest groups mobilizing. The piece notes past court clashes, the potential for multiple due to age, and the looming nuclear option over judicial confirmations.
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Dreaming of Freedom aims at teaching black history to youth
Leonard Pitts Jr. reviews Diane McWhorter's A Dream of Freedom a middle school history book about Birmingham Montgomery Jackson and other civil rights fronts. The book reframes events away from sanitized Hallmark style, showing social insanity and a path to critical thinking about past and present inequities.
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Public Forum on Health Costs and Immigration Reform Critique
Public Forum letters discuss absorbing hospital expansion costs through an in patient mental health facility and argue care should be equal for mentally ill, insured or not. The passage also critiques the intelligence reform bill, immigration provisions, and political figures, noting Journal World policy for letters.
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