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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1992
Page
3
A reflective piece on choosing between multiple interests and tasks. The author describes retirement experiments, attempting to tackle real chores, building projects, and writing editorials, yet repeatedly postpones or abandons them for intermittent activities and guilts about his wife working.
A Washington editorial argues that limiting terms for U S representatives and senators could blunt the seniority system. It cites a $18 000 private expenditure by House Speaker Tom Foley on marble floors and three elevators as example of entrenched power and waste. It also notes a correction about the Social Security Trust Fund surplus taxes not going into the fund.
Guest opinion accuses Kansas Legislature of endorsing an open admissions policy that allows all high school graduates to enroll in Regent universities. It argues 25 percent of freshmen fail to reach sophomore year due to unpreparedness, wasting about $6,000 per student annually and costing taxpayers roughly $14,000 per student. The editorial calls for ending the open admissions policy this legislative session.
Reader argues KPERS pension increases for a few legislators drain funds and questions who is deemed full time for health benefits. Cites 1990 and 1991 retirement payouts, tax exemptions for certain pensioners, and fairness of taxing pension income. Questions if all citizens should pay taxes and ends with a snappy barb.
Mary Calliham from 1530 Orchard Drive commends Donald Albright for a January 14 Ottawa Herald letter critiquing pornography. She urges thousands of citizens to speak out on societal ills, arguing nudity and sexuality are not art but porno graphic art.
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