I Have a Dream and the Civil Rights Struggle
Guest editorial weighs Martin Luther King Jr. speech as both beacon and burden. It recalls the August 28 1963 Lincoln Memorial rally, praising the dream’s call for character over skin color while noting distortions, ongoing violence, and the kingpin’s assassination that ended a fierce era.
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Martin Luther King Jr
King
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D.C
Colin Kaepernick
Ronald Gasser
Joe McKnight
America
Alabama
Duck and Cover Recalled as Cold War Fear Marks 1950s Schools
Rudy Taylor reflects on growing up under nuclear paranoia amid duck and cover drills and a cinema and newsprint view of Hiroshima. He cautions modern leaders to study history, avoid flippancy about nuclear capability, and seek steady diplomacy for lasting peace.
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Andy Griffith
Soviet Union
U.S.A
Hiroshima
Japan
George Washington
Barack Obama
America
Brownback budget plan aims to cover shortfall without tax hikes
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback unveils a plan to fill a 350 million dollar shortfall for the current fiscal year and the next two years without broad tax increases. The proposal relies on transfers and internal borrowing, with politics and timing shaping the likely legislative outcome as lawmakers haggle over pension funding and special accounts. The next weeks will show whether the Legislature overrides a veto or adjusts the governor's deficit plan. Martin Hawver notes the tension between good government and political maneuvering in this fiscal dispute.
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Sam Brownback
Kansas
House
Senate
Cedar Crest
Kansans
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