Regents push for higher ed funding and rankings in Kansas
Editorial argues for a 2.3 percent increase in state higher education funding next year and a $50 million annual boost in 2011 and 2012 to raise academic rankings. It urges the governor, regents, and universities to build a concrete, data driven case showing benefits to Kansas, beyond lofty goals.
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Kansas Board of Regents
Regents
Kansas Higher Education
Mark Parkinson
Parkinson
Jill Docking
Docking
Kansas
Jarold Boettcher
Board of Regents
Afghanistan debate stalls until a clear policy is set
Trudy Rubin discusses the brewing congressional clash over Afghanistan strategy as President Obama delays a full policy decision awaiting health care reform. Three main approaches—with drones and counterterrorism, expanded Afghan security forces, and a full counterinsurgency—face debates on timing, troop levels, and reconciliation.
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Pakistan
U.S
Stanley McChrystal
David Petraeus
Ryan Crocker
Iraq
McChrystal
Crocker
NATO
Carl Levin
Michigan
Armed Services Committee
Petraeus
Biden
Istan
Taliban
Ahmed Rashid
Kabul
Washington
Trudy Rubin
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Free Staters shape Lawrence history amid Civil War era
Public forum letter argues Kansas founders pursued Free State aims to keep slavery out of Kansas rather than abolish slavery, highlighting Lawrence as a key early Free State community and noting their influence on the coming Civil War.
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Journal-World
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Kansas
Albert R. Sellen
Presidential outrage and fundraising gains tied to war spending
Ace Hickey links a recent Republican clash over Obama to past calls for accountability in Bush’s Iraq war. He notes each candidate surpassing one million dollars in fundraising and cites the Senate panel approving 128 billion dollars for military spending next year, pushing total Iraq and Afghanistan spending past one trillion since 2001.
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Virginia
New Jersey
Bush
Congress
House
Nancy Pelosi
Obama
Afghanistan
Obamia
Gov
Republicran
Joe Wilson
Wilson
America
Iraq
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ace Hickey
Lawrence
Old Home Town Bond Vote For Judicial Complex
The county commission sought a date for a city county election on a 3.5 million bond issue to finance a joint judicial and law enforcement complex at 11th and New Hampshire. Lawrence Daily World reports Sept 22 1909 that Kansas University bacteriology department was called by state health director Dr S C Crumbine to investigate a deadly infantile paralysis outbreak in Norton and Decatur counties with 13 deaths in 40 cases.
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11Th and
New Hampshire
Lawrence Daily World
Kansas University Bacteriology
S.C. Crumbine
Kansas
Norton
Decatur
Crumbine
Letters Policy For The Journal World Public Forum
The Journal World invites letters to the Public Forum and sets a250 word limit and public interest standard Letters may be edited without changing viewpoints The paper requires the writer name address and telephone number and provides publication rights via a nonexclusive license Submissions may go to Box 888 Lawrence KS 66044 or emailed to letters ljworld com
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