Eudora Graduate to Appear on American Idol
Eudora High School reports 2005 graduate Jason Hamlin will appear on American Idol airing after the NFC Championship on FOX. He auditioned in San Diego and is said to feature in a special episode. The show is in its 11th season, chronicling auditions for a Hollywood shot. Kansas City native David Cook won season seven in 2008.
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Kansas City
David Cook
Kansas Aging Secretary to discuss Medicaid privatization online chat
Kansas Department on Aging Secretary Shawn Sullivan will join an online chat February 6 at 3 p.m. on Well Commons to discuss the state's plan to privatize Medicaid and other senior care policies. Submit questions anonymously at WellCommons.com/chats and check Well- Commons.com for responses. Sullivan leads the department overseeing Older Americans Act programs Medicaid long term care payments and adult care home licensure. He has 18 years in aging services and previously led Kansas Masonic Home in Wichita which earned a state award for culture change and person centered care.
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Department On Aging
Kansas Masonic Home
Wichita
Area resident uses art as therapy for Parkinson's disease
McLouth resident Sherry Leftwich, 70, uses card making and crafts in her art studio to cope with Parkinson's disease diagnosed in 2006. She creates cards with fabric, yarn, lace, magazines and more, writing verses inside each piece to express her journey and find calm amid symptoms like stiffness and tremors.
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Richard Gwin
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Mclouth
Sherry Leftwich
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New trial ordered in 1997 rape case
A Kansas Court of Appeals panel ordered a new trial for 38 year old Robert Grey of Lawrence in the 1997 rape of a KU student. The ruling cites improper disclosure timing, victim identification issues, and a prosecutor's closing argument as gross and flagrant misconduct undermining a fair trial.
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Robert Grey
Lawrence
Kansas University
Grey
Peggy Kittel
Amy McGowan
Stephen D. Hill
McGowan
Taxpayers deserve better from Kansas regents system
Saturday column contends the Kansas Board of Regents poorly oversees higher education. It cites a 715 million general fund appropriation and a 2.42 billion total, notes nine unpaid regents with other duties who rarely confront campus troubles, and argues for stronger state accountability and governance across all state universities and colleges.
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Commentary on KU governance and university oversight
A critique argues chancellors and presidents pass problems to regents without accountability. It cites KU scandals, EU athletics, business school misused funds, and medicine reviews as proof officials conceal or delay action. Regents allegedly know of issues yet do nothing or defer to others.
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Wichita State
Emporia
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Pittsburg
Robert Hemenway
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