County faces costly phone system woes and leasing losses
County critics blasted a $1 million plus high tech telephone system. The fiber gear is housed in a building the county does not own, tying offices to a money losing lease at 15th and Main. Rent hikes may push non county tenants out, risking moves of several departments.
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15Th and Main
Ottawa Family Physicians
Clinic Pharmacy
Commission
Don Waymire
Waymire
Agricultural Extension Service
Community Corrections
Health Department
Public Works
John D. Montgomery
Fort Riley in Kansas Faces Questioned Relevance Amid Rededication Talks
The Lyons Daily News discusses how Fort Riley, once pivotal in western expansion and a key training site, faces obsolescence as defense strategy shifts to space and rapid global strike. Fort Hood gains prominence as Riley’s influence wanes amid base realignment debates with ranchers and landowners concerned about expansion.
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Kansas
Fort Riley
U.S. Army
Fort Hood
Texas
Kosovo
West
Korea
Vietnam
Css
Baseball bridge to Cuba sparks cautious hope for ties
Don Kaul weighs a Havana baseball game between Orioles players and Cuban locals as a rare sign of thaw in U S Cuban relations. He argues lifting sanctions could empower Cubans and criticizes the embargo while noting Castro’s hold, the Cold War legacy, and the role of refugees in shaping policy. He asserts liberty requires press freedom and safe emigration.
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Efre
Baltimore Orioles
Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Grim Reaper
Ratfink
Batista
Pinochet
Mandela
Jesse Helms
Congress
Tom Boswell
The
Washington Post
New Orleans
Madrid
Detroit
Boswell
Latin America
Franklin Roosevelt
Sere
Fidel
Kremlin
Don Kaul
Otcoffee
Aol
Tribune Media Services, Inc
Michigan Ave
Suite 1400
Chicago
Growing support for ground troops in Kosovo crisis
As Clinton resists deploying U.S. ground forces, a bloc in Congress grows open to the option as a last resort. Senators Hagel and Skelton urge ground involvement while Gephardt cautions probing the idea, amid debate over air power versus a land campaign and an impending budget agenda.
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Weos
Ashington
Clinton
U.S
NATO
Yugoslavia
Congress
Chuck Hagel
Rneb
Europe
Defense
William Cohen
Hagel
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kosovo
Milosevic
Ike Skelton
D-Mo
Skelton
House Armed Services Committee
House
Dick Gephardt
Gephardt
R-Mo
Senate
Washington
White House
United States
Christopher Cox
Calif
Cox
Equal Pay Day speech urges action against wage gap
Barbara Gibson of BPW Kansas urges lawmakers and the public to support the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Act. The piece cites Texas, U S Airways and university data showing persistent pay disparities, cites Kansas figures and notes proclamations by Gov Graves and Mayor Finch for April 8 1999 as Equal Pay Day.
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America
Texaco
U.S. Airways
Kansas
House Appropriations Committee
Regents
Kansas State University
Pittsburg State University
Kennedy
Ottawa Business and Professional Women’s Club
United States
Bill Graves
Blaine Finch
Sam Brownback
Pat Roberts
Jim Ryan
Barbara Gibson
USA
Ottawa
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Pickle
Lyons Daily News
Mallard Fillmore
Doonesbury
Alex
Cam
BIA
Gene Man
I Poln Ney Feiformance Art
FEORE
Aly
Pease
Donald Kaul
Tribune Media Services
Tom Raum
Ottawa Herald
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