Battle Over Tax Hike Echoes In Kansas Education Fight
Gov. John Carlin calls for an extensive dialogue on new state taxes to fund Kansas education. He urged a one cent sales tax increase directed mainly to raise teacher salaries, a plan the legislature rejected while increasing local school funding. The governor shifts the push to voters and school boards, leaving teachers and unions as primary advocates.
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John Carlin
Kansas
State Board of Education
Carlin
Teachers’ Union
Rural decline reshapes congressional seats
A historical analysis notes rural voters faded as populations moved to cities. Farm vote influence waned as studies based on the last census project Kansas losing a seat by 1990 while Illinois, California, Texas and Florida gain. Urban America grows as rural states are left to fend for themselves.
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Congress
Kansas
Illinois
California
Texas
Florida
America
Selling Out novel shows pain of TV dreams and broken life
Los Angeles AP profile of Dan Wakefield detailing his painful lessons from launching James at 15 and the NBC shakeups that ended James at 16. The Vermont professor Perry Mass in Selling Out reflects Wakefield’s life as “the research,” with a rueful take on Hollywood and personal sacrifice.
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Jerry Buck
LOS Angeles
Dan Wakefield
Wakefield
James
Little, Brown & Co
Vermont
Perry Mass
Hollywood
Boston
East
NBC
Manulis
Hardy
Martin
Joe
On The Road In China Choosing Politics Over Pandas
Harris News Service correspondent John McCormally describes a Pearl River to Hong Kong journey ending at Sun Yat Sen’s memorial and Mao Zedong’s early headquarters. He weighs China’s mixed economy, state ownership, and reform moves, noting propaganda shifts and rising living standards while avoiding Western labels.
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John
Hong Kong
Sun Yat Sen
Mao Zedong
Sun
Marx
Engels
Lenin
China
Beijing University
Tian'anmen Square
Mao
Deng Xiaoping
Deng
Eating Fish To Prevent Heart Attacks No Story
Dear reader questions discuss fish’s role in reducing heart attacks through substances like eicosapentaenoic acid, plus effects on cholesterol and triglycerides. Eskimos cited as example. experts caution awaiting broader societal studies before firm claims.
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DR. Donohue
L.W.E
Eskimos
P.C
Late Night TV Listings and Movie Schedule Highlighting Classic Films
A dense newspaper-style TV guide notes 1970s and 1980s films and shows across HBO NBC CBS and ESPN. Entries mention Midnight Express The In-Laws The Secret Life Of An American Wife Buckaroo Banzai and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai along with Talk shows sports and variety programs.
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HBO
Brad Davis
Randy Quaid
John Hurt
Avil
Peter Falk
Alan Arkin
Richard Libartini
New York
Walter Matthau
Ao Jackson
Patrick O'Neal
L Jans
Carol Burnett and Friends
Cbn
Bill Cosby
WKAP
Cincinnati
Buckaroo Banzai
Peter Weller
John Lithgow
Ellen Barkin
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Ottawa
Robert
Wellington
A.S
J.W
Paul G. Donohue
Angala
Hawai
Hawaii
Ig & Min
Ben
Vicky
Jack
Cody
Nick
Boz
Maddie
David
Washington
Tom Peters
Tvi9
Passion For
Philp Marlowe
Remington Steele
Laura
Remington
GG West
MacGruder and Loud
Jenny
ESPN
Mexico
Glenn Ford
Stella Stevens
Kotter
Cen
Blitzkrieg
Pune
GO Tonight Show
Yo Yo Ma
Robert Klain
Boris Becker
Wynantes
Trapper John
Barney Miller
Three's Company
Mary Tyler Moore
Simon & Simon
DJ Untouchables
Taxi
Bill Dana
David Letterman
Tom Hanks
Diane Brill
Orson Welles
H.G. Walls
Vic Morrow
Cliff de Young
Michael Constantins
Nightly Business Report
Bob
Guadalajara
Spair
Ara Tom Hanks
Columbo
Pm Magazine
ABC News
Nightline
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