Arts center lands $150000 NEA Our Town grant
The Lawrence Arts Center secured a 150000 Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Free State Cultural Connection. The program funds digital media classes for youths at Van Go Inc. and the Boys and Girls Club, expands a local film festival, and culminates in a multi day festival next June.
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Kansas
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Creative Arts Industries Commission
Creative Commission
Malala at the U.N. calls for global girls' schooling
Trudy Rubin notes Malala Yousafzai spoke at the U.N. on her sixteenth birthday, urging free compulsory schooling worldwide. The piece highlights her attack, recovery, and role as a symbol for universal primary education by 2015, plus the launch of the Malala Fund to aid Swat Valley girls.
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Malala
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Swat Valley
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Quetta
Baluchistan
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Asia
India
Afghanistan
Saharan
Africa
Nigeria
Nawaz Sharif
U.S
Malala Fund
Vitalvoices.org
Malalafund.org
Trudy Rubin
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Old Home Town in 1913 bids open for city schools
A Lawrence board of education meeting opened bids for repairing city schools. Town firms were the lowest bidders and won contracts, with several sizable jobs worth the contractor effort to figure.
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Board of Education
Nomination deal a brief respite in partisan Senate
The deal allowing votes on five of seven Obama nominees aims to ease Senate gridlock. It follows years of 60 vote filibuster threats, with Republicans using delays to shape cabinet and agency appointments. Experts say the agreement offers only a temporary pause without changing Senate rules. Carl P. Leubsdorf notes the shift toward greater partisanship and ongoing battles over nominations and cloture rules.
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Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
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R-N.c
Reid
Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Dallas Morning News
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