Kansas budget pressures loom as 2001 funding debated
The Kansas Legislature faces a $75 million shortfall in the fiscal year 2001 budget. Gov Bill Graves seeks a 1 percent spending cut and top priority for funding K 12 schools higher education and social services. Colleges push tuition hikes while lawmakers mull taxing sales to fully fund education and programs amid a tense budget fight.
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Capitol
Kansas
Bill Graves
Kansans
Graves
Johnson County Community College
Department of Education
Senate
Dick Bond
Kansas lawmakers weigh state oversight of county jails
Rep. Jan Pauls and Sen. Lana Oleen pushed a plan for state oversight of Kansas 94 county jails. The Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee will discuss standards and enforcement next month after earlier wrap-up sessions skipped the issue.
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Kansans
Jan Pauls
Hutchinson
Kansas
Corrections,and Juvenile Justice
Pauls
Lana Oleen
Manhattan
Oleen
Stan
Kansas Department of Corrections
Guest Editorials Provide Reader Opinion Variety
Viewpoints appear in the Herald as guest editorials offering diverse perspectives for readers. Editorials carry opinions that may not reflect the Herald or its editors.
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The
Herald
Franklin County Veterans Memorial dedication noted by granddaughter
Barbara Fisher, of Ottawa, recalls attending the Franklin County Veterans Memorial dedication with family including Richard and Esther Lantis and Karl and Judy Kelsey. She expresses pride and gratitude for veterans and requests respect for students at Paola Central Heights Elementary’s December 16 Christmas program under Mr. McCune. Dorothy Brock.
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Franklin County Veterans Memorial
Richard
Esther Lantis
Karl and
Judy Kelsey
Ottawa
Franklin County
Veterans Memorial
Central Heights Elementary
McCune
Addresses of Senators and Governors Posted Incoherently
Fragmented contact details for U.S. lawmakers and officials include addresses in Washington and Topeka with scattered phone numbers and misspelled names. The listing mixes Sen Robart, Rep Jim Ryn, Gov Bill Graves, and others with broken formatting and unclear intent.
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Bil Clinton
White House
Washington
D.C
Pat Robart
Hart Senate
Pat
Cannon Se Ig
Washington, D.C
Court Jester Delights in Fudge and Mince Cookies
A humorous memoir notes the narrator as court jester who samples fudge during a royal bake, recalls punishing refusals of his requests for food, and laments aging and dietary quirks while weaving in a Kansas City fat city ranking and a high school musical production with whipped cream chaos.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Men’s Fitness Magazine
Philadelphia
Ottawa
John Belushi
Is Santa Claus Really a Woman A Humorous Take
A humorous column ponders if Santa could be a woman arguing that Christmas is a nurturing, year round gift enterprise. It suggests women shop year round, wrap gifts with bows, and calmly check children’s letters, while playful male stereotypes arise about sleighs noses and chimney climbs.
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Santa Claus
Santa
Rudolph
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Mr. McCune
Dorothy Brock Richmond
State Capitol
Topeka
Stote
Robert Tyson
Stete Capitol
Ine Bae. Nah
Capital
T . KS
Don He
Vern Brown
Ottawa Herald
Vickie
Hull
Fai
Retana
Doonesbury
Garry Trudeau
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