Editorial Over-regulation on Kansas ticket scalping
A Kansas legislative bill aims to ban selling tickets above face value with penalties. The piece argues the law targets a market not in need of government intervention, noting lobbyists from ticket brokers and venues and suggesting limiting per customer purchases as a better fix. It warns the bill could be unenforceable and questions government overreach into private matters.
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Kansas Legistare
Kansas
KSU
KU Athletics
Kansas City
Kan
Nascar
Franklin County
Reader Forum Voices Support for Officials Over Expressway Plan
Readers urge preservation of rural character in Ottawa and Lawrence amid debates on U.S. 59 expansion. They critique a four lane plan, advocate improving existing routes, and call on residents to pressure their representatives to resist urban sprawl and safeguard farmland and quality of life.
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Blaine Finch
Tom Weigand
Ottawa
Lawrence
KDOF
U.S.-59
Douglas
Franklin Counties
Kansas City Megalopolis
Wal-Mart Coin Gift Claim Sparks Editorial Response
A reader asserts Wal-Mart issued ten one dollar coins for a ten dollar check without a purchase on February 3 2000. The note questions the editorial and praises the idea while alleging a clerical exchange without sale.
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Wal-Mart
Reader Forum submissions urged for Ottawa Herald letters
Readers urged to send hand signed letters to Reader Forum Ottawa Herald 104 S Cedar Ottawa Kansas 66067 or by email to letters ottawaherald.com Submissions capped at 500 words and must include author address and telephone number.
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Ottawa Herald
Cedar
Ottawa
Ottawaherald
Winter memories and changing Kansas snows across decades
Dorothy Nichols recalls growing up near Ottawa Kansas and how winter weather shifted from deep snow drifts and horse sleighs to lighter snows and freezing rain. She describes rural life in the 1940s, infrastructure before electrification, and the evolving pattern of storms through the 20th century.
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Kansas
Atlantic States
Ottawa
Dorothy Nichols
Students push abstinence education and condom access bill
High schoolers in the 2nd Congressional district lobby for a bill requiring extensive abstinence based sex education with HIV awareness and permitting school nurses to give condoms after course completion. The measure, pitched by a local legislator’s ally Bruce Larkin, prompts debate on appropriateness and practicality. A separate proposal targets a theft defeating sack used to evade store alarms, making its manufacture and sale a felony. Martin Hawver notes and provides contact details for Hawver's Capitol Report.
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2Nd Congressional District
Bruce Larkin
Baileyville
House Judiciary Committee
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