Kansas lawmakers push campaign finance reform amid disclosure push
A bipartisan group of Kansas legislators will pursue a 2006 package to require disclosure of who funds issue ads and candidate sponsors, demand timely reporting of late campaign expenditures, and force funding disclosure for political telephone ads. The effort follows an F grade from Pew Charitable Trusts on state laws with loopholes. Voters are urged to hold lawmakers accountable and back reforms despite election timing.
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Kansas
Pew Charitable Trusts
Ts State
Old Home Town in 1981 Unemployment, Demolition, Births
Douglas County unemployment rose from 3.9 to 4.2 percent last November but stayed below the national average. Demolition at 600 Mass. advanced for a planned city parking lot. Daniel Lee Barnett became the first baby born at Lawrence Memorial Hospital as 1981 began. Additional notes recount 1966 births, permit totals exceeding 9.3 million, and 1906 railroad changes in Lawrence.
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Douglas County
Mass
Daniel Lee Barnett
Linwood
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kelly Lynn Leach
Harold Leach
Wellsville
Lawrence
Higher education moves toward privatization
James C. Garland argues that public higher education is doomed to privatization as state funding declines and tuition rises. He outlines a plan to convert public universities into private nonprofits, gradually end subsidies, and redirect funds to scholarships for middle and low income students, aiming to sustain access and fairness.
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Margaret Spellings
Commission On the Future of Higher Education
Ohio
America
Spellings’ Commission
James C. Garland
Miami University
Better days ahead if we demand them
Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues 2005 saw heavy surveillance and civil liberties concerns. She cautions about executive power and urges public accountability, media vigilance, and open dialogue to steer toward a more hopeful 2006.
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CIA
NSA
IRS
EOP
Big Brother
Microsoft
America
Supreme Court
Bush
England
John Whitehead
Goldman Sachs
Wall Street Journal
New York State
Eliot Spitzer
Friendly
CBS News
James Lee Burke
Louisiana
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business School
Rkanter
Hbs
The
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Ed Clambrone
Dan Cox
World Online
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