Editorial calls for CIA declassification openness
Jim Hitch argues the CIA should declassify as much as possible while protecting genuine national security needs. He warns secrecy tempts abuse, urges accountability, and stresses history requires truth about past actions.
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Central Intelligence Agency
Kansas
Robert Gates
Senate
CIA
Jim Hitch
Equalize school tax urged in guest opinion
The Hays Daily News reports Gov. Joan Finney supports a statewide minimum property tax levy to partly fund schools. A 45 mill statewide levy would raise about $195 million less in operations, shifting burden from high levy districts to others, with districts likely opposing the change as disparities persist.
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Joan Finney
Finney
Hays Daily News
The Hitching Post on Grandparent Joy and Worries
A columnist reflects on the optimism of youth and parental fears about raising children. Expanding family with two new grandchildren, pregnancy diabetes of a daughter, and the ever-present burden versus the worth of children. He notes financial anxieties, aging perspectives, and grandparenting quirks like gifts and saving advice.
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Allysain Hutchinson
Luke
Topeka
Tailor U S Trade Policy To Reality
A call for a holistic approach to trade policy tying environmental, labor, and social costs to competitiveness. It argues for tailored trade rules with industrialized peers, protections against low cost foreign firms, and ending liberal policy with places lacking similar social costs. It warns current policy hurts American workers and future living standards.
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Taiwan
Hong Kong
Mexico
U.S
China
Pigeons Eat Pigeons in Grant Park a Controversy
A Chicago woman witnessed two men luring pigeons with breadcrumbs and netting them for food in Grant Park. The health office says city pigeons are edible if feathers, bones, and beak are removed. The column compares pigeon eating to lamb and cat consumption, urges caution, and ends with a punchline about removing collars.
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Chicago
Grant Park
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