All-Day Kindergarten Funding Faces Legislative Test in Kansas
Editorial urges Gov Brownback to push 80 million over five years to fully fund all-day kindergarten. The piece questions whether funding will survive a tight budget year, court rulings on K-12 finances, and potential funding diversions, noting past gaps in higher education support and the need for decisive leadership.
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Kansas
Sam Brownback
Brownback
Kansas Supreme Court
Second Annual Christmas Concert by First Regimental Band
Lawrence Daily Journal-World reports all plans set for the Second Annual Christmas Concert. Director J C McCanless announced a carefully selected program expected to draw a full house like last year. The event occurs Friday night with high expectations for a triumph by the band.
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
J. C. McCanless
Iran's economy reshaped by sanctions and resilience
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reports Iran endures crippling sanctions that distort growth, with oil leaks, under-the-table financing, and a stressed middle class. Analysts see potential boom if Western ties reopen, as Rouhani expands private investment and non oil exports while hard liners profit from evasion.
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Iran
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Khoshchehreh
Ahmadinejad
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Laylaz
Rouhani
World Trade Organization
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David Ignatius
Washington Post Writers Group
Orwell’s 1984 and the real reach of surveillance
The excerpt notes George Orwell’s warning about a totalitarian state where Big Brother watches Oceania through telescreens. It contrasts the novel’s imagined pervasive eavesdropping with the real world as of 2013, where the federal government has not yet deployed telescreens but possesses extensive surveillance capabilities.
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George Orwell
Oceania
Orwell
Privacy and Security Clash Over NSA Surveillance
Cal Thomas argues the NSA bulk phone data collection risks Fourth Amendment rights. He cites Judge Richard Leon calling the program an indiscriminate data vacuum and urges nonpartisan hearings to balance privacy with security, warning against Orwellian doublethink.
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Public Forum Letter on ACA Trust and Truth
A reader challenges Obama and Democrats over the ACA and trust in leadership. The letter accuses misstatement and deceit, calls for repeal, and questions media response. It includes the writer’s address for journal publication and notes the Journal-World letters policy.
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Lawrence
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