Blocking sunlight in Sunshine Week editorial
Editorial bemoans limited sun during Sunshine Week 2014 and critiques open records and meetings laws in Kansas. Highlights SB 10 on Kansas Open Records Act costs, delays, and public access, plus Republican secrecy in Senate debates. Warns future violations and politics behind openness.
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American Society of Newspaper Editors
Bloomberg LP
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press
Kansas Senate Committee On Federal and State Affairs
State Senate
GOP
Senate
Kansas Press Association
Koma
Syria After Assad Will Require Massive International Aid
Washington views Syria’s post Assad transition as fragile with risks of chaos. The Obama administration seeks a stable path avoiding a Bremer-like vacuum, endorsing an interim governance approach, an executive opposition authority, and amnesty plans to win defectors. Kerry pledges 60 million for local governance while Saudi Arabia and Qatar provide arms for security in liberated areas.
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Obama
Syria
Bashar al-Assad
White House
Bremer
Iraq
America
L. Paul Bremer
Assad
Ment
Arab League
Islamic Conference
U.N. General Assembly
Sheik Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib
U.S
Britain
France
Germany
Khatib
USS
Idlib
Aleppo
Deir al
Zour
John Kerry
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Egypt
NATO
Turkey
Middle East
David Ignatius
Washington Post Writers Group
Burn the Chinch Bugs campaign urged in Douglas county
The Lawrence Daily Journal-World reports the Horticultural Society of Douglas County adopts a plan to burn meadows pastures roadsides and fence corners infested with chinch bugs. A committee will start an active campaign to eradicate the pest in wheat fields.
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Horticultural Society of
Douglas County
DD service shakeup risks higher costs and poorer care
Karen Lowder cites a decades long Kansas program where Community Developmental Disability Organizations CDDOs coordinate services for people with developmental disabilities. Senate Bill 194 seeks to fold these into KanCare with MCOs demanding at least a 5 percent admin fee and lacking non medical day to day support. Residents urge legislators to keep DD services out of KanCare.
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Kansas
Lawrence
Branson
Wiley
Community
Cmrcs
Cddos
KanCare
McOs
CDDO
Karen Lowder
Lawrence Resident
Letters Policy For The Journal World Public Forum
The Journal World invites letters up to 250 words on public interest topics. Submissions may be edited without changing viewpoints and must include name address and phone number. Mail to Box 888 Lawrence Rs 66044 or email letters ljworld com.
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Lawrence
Ljworld.com
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