Health insurance costs rise nationwide and locally in Kansas
As health care prices surge 20 to 35 percent across Kansas, Blue Cross Blue Shield warns of loss of customers to unaffordability. Local entities Ottawa and Ransom Memorial Hospital report double digit premium hikes impacting schools, counties, and businesses amid rising drug costs and greater technology use.
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Kansas
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
City of Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Bush
Anthem Inc
Indianapolis
Letter to the editor condemns Catholic church coverage in Ottawa Herald
John Walburn’s letter denounces the newspaper for printing what he calls an ignorant essay about Catholics. A reader responds, challenging Walburn and defending Catholic families, urging open discussion and criticizing atheistic thinkers like Nietzsche and Marx.
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Joe Ely
Ottawa Herald
John Walburn
Herald
Washington Post
NY Times
USA Today
Walburn
Nietzke
Marx
John
Ottawa
Mark Morrisey
Reader Forum submissions guidelines for Ottawa Herald
Readers are invited to send hand signed letters with the author’s address and telephone number. Submissions must be under 500 words and may be edited for space. Letters should be sent to Reader Forum at The Ottawa Herald, 104 S. Cedar, Ottawa KS 66067 or emailed to letters ottawaherald.com.
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Ottawa Herald
S. Cedar
Ottawa
Ottawaherald
KPPI Declared “Not a Special Interest” by Ethics Commission
In Kansas the Ethics Commission unanimously ruled that the Kansas Public Policy Institute is a special interest group even as it argues its market oriented economics should be seen as objective public policy. The decision reinforces that lobbying the Legislature for any viewpoint falls under established rules. Martin Hawver notes the stance and directs readers to Hawver's Capitol Report for more context.
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Pork Producers Council
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Quarter Horse Racing Association
Highway Contractors
Schoolteacher
Kansas Catholic Conference
Kansas Public Policy Institute
Kansas
Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission
KPPI
Ethics Commission
Statehouse
Martin Hawver
Hawver
Hawvernews.com
Democrats Attack Boy Scout Resolution in California Assembly
Guest columnist Thomas L. Krannawitter argues that liberal Democrats oppose a resolution celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, contrasting Jeffersonian principles with modern liberalism and praising the 11 Democrats who supported the Scouts.
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Thomas L. Kramawitter
California
Sacramento
Boy Scouts of America
California Assembly
John F. Kennedy
Hank Aaron
Bill Bradley
Jefferson
Strik
Los Angeles
Congress
Democratic Party
America
Boy Scouts
Thomas L. Krannawitter
Claremont Institute
Claremont.org
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