Editorials Questioning Kline’s private board meetings
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline held private sessions with small groups of state school board members to discuss policy and evolution disclaimer stickers. Critics say the meetings breached the Open Meetings Act and deepened a conservative–moderate split while raising questions about agenda and timing around Education Commissioner Tompkins's retirement.
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Hatever
Kansas
Phill Kline
Kansas State Board of Education
Kline
Georgia
Andy Tompkins
Ossie Davis and the Courage to Speak Out
Leonard Pitts Jr recalls Ossie Davis born R.C. Davis in Georgia two before his Miami death at 87, a writer and actor whose life bridged art and activism. He and Ruby Dee championed civil rights, echoed by Davis’s plays on Till and Montgomery, and his 1963 March on Washington leadership.
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Raiford Chatman Davis
R.C. Davis
Georgia
R.C
Ossie Davis
Miami
Purlie
Cotton
Harlem
Evening Shade
Davis
Ruby Dee
W.E.B. DuBois
A. Philip Randolph
Richard Wright
James Weldon Johnson
Ku Klux Klan
Paul Robeson
Malcolm X
Emmett Till
Washington
Nike
Michael Jordan
Senate
Tiger Woods
Muhammad Ali
Harry Belafonte
James Brown
Bill Russell
Nina Simone
Traq
Ood
PBS
Dole and Reagan in early presidential primary talk
In 1905 Lawrence Daily World notes Dole declined to enter Kansas primary while Reagan and Bush also considered. It also comments on suffrage limits and criticizes Standard Oil as a major foe. Separately, Lawrence Fraternal Aid defeats Kansas University 37 to 21 as the varsity struggles to score.
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U.S
Bob Dole
Kansas
California
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Lawrence Daily World
Standard Oil Co
Lawrence Fraternal Aid
Kansas University
University Gymnasium
Lawrence
Public Forum Letters Call for Mental Health Services
A collection of public letters urges expansion of inpatient mental health care in Lawrence, citing Brianna Mitchell’s death as a plea for action. Writers advocate open units, recruitment of psychiatrists, and sustained community and hospital board engagement.
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Brianna Mitchell
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Bert Nash
Chris Drinkhouse
Lecompton
Ownership society critique echoes faith and shared aid
A reader argues that Social Security embodies mutual aid and questions the presidents ownership plan. The letter challenges the idea that private ownership is universally good and asks how this aligns with Christian values. The author doubts the mantra of every man for himself in the Gospels.
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New Hampshire
Smart
Journal-World
P.O
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Associated Press
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Dan C. Simons
Electronics
Ralph Gage
Leonard Pitts Jr
The
Miami Herald
Spitts
Herald.com
Old Home Town
Taotu
Red Green
Red
Steve Hicks
Condoleezza Rice
Ms. Rice
Colin Powell
America
Dr. Rice
Robert Hinton
Madeleine Sewing
Rev. Fox
Dennis Saleebey
Veteran Services
Douglas County
Kansas Commission On Veteran Affairs
Topeka
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