Pull the plug on prescription drug advertising
A government report says drug companies repeatedly mislead in ads and ignore cease and desist orders. The GAO notes deliberate false claims, urging Congress to ban consumer advertising if the FDA won’t act. Pharmaceutical firms spend heavily on research but push promotions that misinform the public, prompting calls to end direct-to-consumer ads.
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General Accounting Office
Food and Drug Administration
Congress
Wal-Mart
General Motors
Microsoft
Parents University 2002 Receives Community Support
Thank you to Randy Wiler and Chuck Smith for their presentations on bullying strategies and positive anger management. Over 200 participants attended as Ottawa High School and USD 290 facilities hosted the event with many area volunteers and sponsors contributing resources and prizes. Dana Paquette, chairperson, acknowledges Franklin County Children’s Coalition and local groups for planning and sponsorship.
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Parents University
Randy Wiler
Chuck Smith
Ottawa High School
USD 290
Chartwells
Ecean Volunteer Center
CTEC
SRS
Kansas Army National Guard
Scott Dickinson
Grandpa Pokey
Franklin County Children’s Coalition
Dana Paquette
Thanking Hightower and Reese for opposing war with Iraq
A reader from Ottawa thanks columnist Jim Hightower for Clear, frank patriotism and Charley Reese for sharing opposition to a war with Iraq. The message praises outspoken critics who question intervention and urge restraint. The note cites Milan Lambertson as the sender.
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Jim Hightower
Reader Forum submissions require sign-off and contact details
Readers are invited to submit letters to the Reader Forum at The Ottawa Herald with a hand-signed message and full author address and telephone number. Submissions must be under 400 words, may be edited for space, and can be mailed to 1048 Cedar Ottawa KS 66067 or emailed to letters ottawaherald.com.
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Ottawa Herald
Cedar
Ottawa
Ottawaherald
U.S. Congressional and State Officials Contact List
A compiled, partially garbled roster of U S senators Pat Roberts Sam Brownback and rep Jim Ryun with office addresses in Washington D C and Topeka Kansas plus state senators and representatives Ralph Tanner Bill Feverborn and Bill Graves including phone numbers and web addresses. The data appears from a government contact directory with several OCR errors in names and URLs.
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George Bush
White House
Washington
D.C
Whitehouse
U.S
Pat Roberts
Hart Senate
Pat
Sebelius Secret Panels Draw Fire Over Secrecy
Cleon Rickel, Herald news editor, argues that Kathleen Sebelius’s six closed citizen panels resemble a Bush era tactic to shield decision making and risks alienating publishers, broadcasters, and the public as Kansas faces a deep budget crisis and school funding pressures.
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Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius
Bill Graves
George W. Bush
Bush
Robert Docking
John Carlin
George Docking
Jonathan Davis
Harry Woodring
Joan Finney
David Adkins
Johnson County
Adkins
Kansas
Willy
Congress
Hillary
U.S
New York
Hell’s Angels
Wall Street
Reducing nuclear waste volume through chemical cleanup efforts
Roger Martin reports from the University of Kansas on reducing hazardous nuclear waste by separating high level cesium uranium and plutonium from low level waste. Bowman-James tests sulfate removal to shrink waste volume, with promising compounds tested at Oak Ridge. The piece notes Yucca Mountain as a disposal site and reflects on broader issues of fear and policy.
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Russia
United States
U.S. Senate
Yucca Mountain
Las Vegas
Kristin Bow- Man-James
University of Kansas
Department of Energy
Bowman-James
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Roger Martin
Kansas Public Radio
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Hightower
Iraq
Charley Reese
Milan Lambertson
Goy
State Capitol
Topeka
State
Robert Tyson
Tyson
Senate
Ralph Tanner
House
Bill Feverborn
Faverborn
Harris Group
Jeanny Sharp
Franklin County
S. Cedar
Rald
Stacy Cohen
Linda Brown
Brown
Otawaherald
Kathy Millee
Ken Kistner
Kistner
Bill Gray
Gray
Tim Millbern
Caday
Cleon Rickel
S. Cedar Onawa
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