KU Hospital tops national ratings with nine programs in top 50
Editorial applauds Kansas University Hospital for nine programs in the top 50 of U.S. News rankings with three more in the top 25 percent. Cancer gains to No 27, others honored include cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, geriatrics, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, pulmonology, endocrinology, diabetes, gynecology, orthopedics, and urology. Highlights the hospital as a state asset and urges funding consideration by lawmakers.
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Kansas University Hospital
U.S. News and World Reports
Kansas
Kansas City
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Kansas Board of Regents
Children’s words cut through war and color lines
Leonard Pitts Jr. reflects on a 1995 Montgomery encounter with a fearless 10 year old, contrasting blunt child honesty with America’s racial scars. He sketches Malala Yousafzai’s UN speech and war weariness, noting how child clarity unsettles adults and demands truth.
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Ala
Michael Browning
South
Big Brother
America
Malala
Leonard Pitts Jr
The
Miami Herald
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Education data demand action beyond idle summer talk
The OECD report shows education key to earnings health and employment gaps. The US ranks low on college completion and high school graduation while funding declines push higher education costs. Governors praise colleges yet rarely defend funding. citizens must act to push policy and spending choices. Gene Budig and Alan Heaps are noted figures quoted as context.
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William Carlos William
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD
United States
Developed Nations
Ucation
Center On
Eddard
Ned” Stark
Gene Budig
Kansas University
Alan Heaps
College Board
New York City
De Soto homicide tied to 1988 Lawrence murder case
Old Home Town item links a De Soto Texas 1977 homicide to a Lawrence murder charge in 1988. John William, 27, accused of killing 12-year-old LeWayne Dean, with Richard Settlemyre’s body found at the Kansas River. Includes a traffic accident report and flood notes from July 1913 Lawrence.
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de Soto
Tex
Lawrence
John William
Richard D. Settlemyre
Kansas River
Dallas Morning News Today
William
LeWayne T. Dean
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
United Brethren Church
Vermont
Ontario
Douglas County
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