Aging housing options amid a shifting market
Editorial notes that few new homes have been built locally, prompting a look at aging baby boomers and maintenance free living. It highlights ranch style and duplex designs, universal design for mobility, and K State gerontological design research to help seniors stay in homes longer. Ottawa has limited maintenance free townhouses, suggesting builders rethink future designs to meet demand.
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Kansas State University
College of Human Ecology
Migette Kaup
Ottawa
Readers urged to submit signed letters to Ottawa Herald
The Ottawa Herald invites reader opinions in its Reader Forum. Submissions must be hand signed with the author's address and phone number and mailed to Reader Forum, The Ottawa Herald, 104 S. Cedar, Ottawa KS 66067, or emailed to letters ottawaherald.com. Letters should not exceed 400 words and may be edited for space grammar and clarity.
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Ottawa
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First Amendment text overview and protections
The First Amendment restricts Congress from establishing a religion or prohibiting free exercise. It also bars abridging freedom of speech or of the press and protects the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
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Congress
Pledge of Allegiance row sparks network apology debate
NBC faced criticism after omitting the words under God from a Pledge segment during Open coverage. Commentator Dan Hicks apologized, while the piece traces prior challenges to atheist advocate Michael Newdow and Supreme Court action, exploring views on religion in patriotism and free speech.
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NBC
Dan Hicks
Michael Newdov
California
Michael Lind
Slate Magazine
Newdow
Supreme Court
United States
Teaching kids money sense at home with allowances
Parents should actively teach money management from an early age using allowances as tools for savings budgeting and responsibility. As children grow raise allowances and responsibilities include school lunches clothes gas and extras, plus lessons on earning and budgeting. Rebecca McFarland notes five age appropriate money lessons and the aim to prepare kids for real life financial decisions.
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Janet Bodnar
Kiplinger
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