Westar and KDHE agree to voluntary CO2 reductions
Westar Energy will measure emissions and deliver a plan by April 2009 to cut carbon dioxide from Kansas generating plants. The pact, announced after permit battles and looming EPA standards, signals cooperation with regulators despite ongoing debates over Holcomb plant permits and Sunflower Electric’s Holcomb expansion.
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Westar Energy
Kansas
Electrical Utility
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Westar
KDHE
Rod Bremby
Jeffrey Energy Center
Topeka
Bremby
Holcomb
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
McCarthy’s NH primary reshaped 1968 politics in New Hampshire
The 1968 New Hampshire primary energized a youth driven insurgency, propelled Senator McCarthy to a surprising 23,269 votes while Lyndon Johnson won the Democratic race with 27,520. The Tet Offensive and war worries fed a nationwide demand for change, transforming campaign tactics and involving a new generation in U.S. politics.
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Kennedy
New Hampshire
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Richard Nixon
Sen
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
South Vietnam
Barack Obama
McCarthy
Robert B. Reich
Dartmouth
Bill Clinton
Ben Stavis
Temple University
Sen. McCarthy
Mary McGrory
Washington Star
Smith
Cornell
Manchester
Theodore H. White
David Shribman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Gordon Parks at KU for Black History Month program
Author Gordon Parks spoke to over 500 at Woodruff Auditorium during Kansas University Black History Month events. The piece notes a Kentucky distiller influence claim on a U.S. Senate election and highlights Dr. James Naismith promoting workouts for men and boys at the YMCA Gymnasium in Lawrence.
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Gordon Parks
Woodrutt Auditorium
Kansas University
Lawrence Daily World
U.S
Kentucky
James Naismith
Lawrence
YMCA
Naismith
Persuade the Persuadable in Unreasonable Times
A Miami Herald columnist offers advice to a Cooper City High student editor facing threats from a campus group over a Confederate flag column. He urges calm, persuasive writing, notes that readers still exist, and cites Leonard Pitts Jr as an exemplar of constructive commentary despite hostile reactions.
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David Tintner
Cooper City
Fla
David
Confederate States of America
Zeke
South
Leonard Pitts Jr
The
Miami Herald
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al Bonner
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Ed Ciambrone
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire Streets
Smart
P.O
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Patrick Knorr
Dan Cox
Mediapharmedia
Ralph Gage
Harold Ickes
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Tony Podesta
John Shattuck
John F. Kennedy
Curtis B. Gans
New Haven
Mr. Gans
Nonpartisan Committee For the Study
Old Home Town
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