IPRS Lift a Brow at Kansans' Congressional Pensions
A U S Term Limits study estimates Kansas delegation pension benefits totaling about 2.16 million for the average member with lifetime payments near 1.5 million. It contrasts these with Social Security and average incomes, outlines pension formulas for pre and post 1984 members, notes 8 percent employee contributions, and questions the system’s funding and entitlement rhetoric.
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Kansas
U.S
National Taxpayers’ Union
Congress
Pat Roberts
Jim Slattery
Jay Meyers
Dan Glickman
Robert Dole
Nancy Kassebaum
Armed Forces
Congressional
Executive Branch
Civil Service Retirement System
Civil Service
Congressional Pension System
Readers urged to sign letters with address and phone
The note requests letters to be signed with writer's address and a telephone number for verification. Unsigned submissions will not be published, and the policy emphasizes rapid verification by phone.
Entertainments fill gap as workers strike
Bureaucrats scramble to fill entertainment void created by the ballplayer walkout. The piece notes a New York mental hospital billed $12,000 for an exorcism of Alphonso Pecou involving a bathtub dunk and olive oil, amid questions about his release. It also covers a Nebraska doctor facing a four count drug case and a past Florida felony, plus a NASA stamp sting with USPS paying $50,000 to carry 500,000 stamps into space for a moon landing anniversary.
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New York State
Alpha O. Bundu
Bundu
United Church of Salvation Ministry
Alphonso Pecou
Wife
Nebraska
Helen Meeks
State Bureau of Examining Boards
Plainview
Vincent Rodriguez
Florida
U.S. Postal Service
NASA
Glory hound on field turns into a national tale
Mike Ditka hurls a small intruder from the Bears Rams game as Felix Carbajal, 19, of Lomita Calif, explains his bold dash onto the Los Angeles field. The factory worker, Mexican heritage and a dreamer, says the crowd cheered, he felt good, and calls it a good experience. He adds he may try it again after reflection.
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Mike Royko
Mickey Mantle
Bears
Joe Louis
Felix Carbajal
Lomita
Calif
Felix
Mike
Chicago
Ditka
Art
Weekend booths and lake permit ideas for Ottawa county fairgrounds
Reader suggests weekend booths for sales at the county fairgrounds with $7 or $8 per vehicle, plus a tourist draw from a proposed fishing lake. They complain about constant barking dogs on North Sycamore and reference a local health care column. They invite readers to church and question the Whitewater matter in Clinton administration.
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Ottawa
North
Sycamore
No Title But a Fragmented Joe Biden Era Rhetoric Montage
A reader letter style collection questions the Clinton era investigations and FBI action while lamenting local nuisances. It critiques security, legal actions, and the political process, intermixing concerns about dog control and tipping with comments on liquor laws and health policy.
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By Karl A. van Asselt
America
Corporation For the Relief of
Philadelphia
World Features Syndicate
Meeks
Rodriguez
By Bill Tellier
The
Ottawa Herald
By Mike Royko
Tribune Media Service
Madard Fillmore
By Bruce Tinsley
A. Gee
Chambers
Toulon
Monday Night Herald
John Marshall
Bob Dole
God
First Assembly of God Church
Fairgrounds
Jesus
Clinton
Whitewater
Colmera
Vince Foster
FBI
Mrs. Clinton
Rose Law Firm
Inepenent Fiske
Arkansas
O.J
North Poplar
Richmond
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