New Year Hopes Face Budget Fix and KU Ambitions
Editorial urges Kansas leaders to fix the budget by possibly revising 2012 and 2013 tax cuts, support for Brownback’s plan, and aims to keep optimism for 2017. It highlights Lawrence’s economy, KU chancellor search, and sports ambitions from Beaty Bechard and Self.
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2016 in review highlights a year of clashes and contrasts
A retrospective recounts conflicts over flags and bans, policy shifts in health, education, and gender, plus tax changes and corporate moves. It notes public discourse on liberty, bias language, and historic memory, ending with remarks from George Will.
Today in History a sweep of major events across years
On January 1 1942 twenty six nations including the United States signed the Declaration of the United Nations pledging no separate peace with the Axis. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebelling states. In 1913 the U S Parcel Post system began operations. In 1959 Fidel Castro and revolutionaries overthrew Batista, who fled to the Dominican Republic. In 1984 AT T split up, divesting 22 Bell System companies under antitrust terms.
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Trump as Henry VIII a dubious royal parallel
Columnist Jamie Stiehm compares Donald Trump to Henry VIII, noting shared ferocity and a self serving approach. The piece contrasts governance with personal power, cites Elizabeth I as a stabilizing figure, and questions Trump’s reliance on family and wealth while reflecting on historical kingship and democracy.
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