Clay Center Native to Challenge Brownback for Senate
Joan Ruff, a Mission Woods attorney and businesswoman born in Clay Center, filed papers to challenge Sen. Sam Brownback. She cites education healthcare and the economy as top issues and notes a planned grass roots network and potential multi million dollar campaign. Political scientist Joe Aistrup says the challenge is unlikely but not impossible as Kansas leans Republican.
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Topeka
Clay Center
U.S
Sam Brownback
R-Kan
Joan Ruff
Johnson County
Ruff
Brownback
Senate
Kansas
Zurich Financial Services
Mission Woods
Paign
Joe Aistrup
Kansas State University
State of
Ottawa planning panel approves first phase of Westwood Addition
The Ottawa Planning Commission OKd the initial phase of a 130-house Westwood Addition along Eisenhower Road, with 25 lots in the 40-acre project between 17th and 19th streets. The panel attached two covenants requiring neighborhood pool and storm water pond maintenance and drainage changes at 19th and Eisenhower.
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Ottawa Planning Commission
Eisenhower Road
Westwood
17Th
19Th Streets
Deerfield
Twyman
19Th Street
19Th
Eisenhower
Wynndee Lee
Lee
Ottawa
23Rd Street
U S self-rule plan for Iraq under fire
The Bush administration battles Shiite demands as it pursues a July 1 handover of Iraq to self-rule. Bremer returns to brief Rice Powell and Rumsfeld while talks probe U.N. guidance on elections and a possible compromise with Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani.
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Washington
Bush
U.S
Iraq
United Nations
White House
U.N
New York
Baghdad
L. Paul Bremer III
Condoleezza Rice
Colin Powell
Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Bremer
Kofi Annan
Ayatollah
Ali al-Husseini al- Sistani
Al-Sistani
Basra Protest Grows as Cleric Warns Edict Over Elections
In Basra hundreds of thousands of Shiites rally against a U S backed plan for Iraq's new legislature. An aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al Husaini al Sistani said a religious edict may be issued if demands for direct elections are ignored.
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Basra
Iraq
Baghdad
Ayatollah
Ali al- Husseini al-Sistani
Cleric pushes Iraqi vote on peacekeeping troops
A new government faces pressure as a cleric urges that Iraqis be allowed to vote on whether American peacekeeping troops stay, signaling political friction over foreign military presence.
Bitter cold grips East as temperatures plunge
The Northeast endures subzero wind chills with dozens of deaths reported. In New Hampshire a hiker perished in the White Mountains as temperatures plummeted to minus 45 with wind chills near minus 100. New York City hit 1 degree, while Michigan saw ten inches of snow and several fatalities. Schools closed across the region as buses failed in the cold.
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Concord
N.H
White Mountains
New Hampshire
New York City
National Weather Service
Mike Silva
Scott Reynolds
Michigan
Detroit
Fish and Game Department
Robert Bryant
Saranac Lake
N.Y
Frederick Foresteire
Everett
Mass
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Hanis News Service
Laurie Sisk
The
Ottawa Herald
15Th
17Th Streets
17Th Street
15Th Street
U S
David Tirrell
the Ottawa
Neosho County Community College
Micca Folks
Sarah Heckman
NCCC
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