Aging city infrastructure prompts audit and funding rethink
The city faces aging roads and sewer lines after a 70 year old downtown sewer collapse closed Eighth and Kentucky streets for over a week. A new financial report will explore funding options while a year long street by street inspection aims to guide repairs. The mayor and commissioners push for stronger infrastructure planning amid tax and fee concerns.
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Fort Leavenworth collects Iraq war stories for leadership lessons
Lt Col Steve Clay oversees a CSI project gathering more than 100 public interviews from Iraq veterans. Transcripts on the Combined Arms Research Library site reveal candid accounts of treatment decisions, logistics, and combat, including Hussein's captivity and Fallujah battles, with veterans frank about mistakes and tensions.
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In their own words Soldiers describe Iraq
Unclassified transcripts from the Combat Studies Institute compile oral histories. Mace discusses battlefield stress and the difference between professional forces and irregulars. Pope recounts a burning, fatal encounter with an Iraqi unit and a captain blamed for the outcome. Reed emphasizes still fighting and learning Iraqi culture.
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