Ottawa Library faces tax relief vote amid budget debate
Editorial questions Ottawa Library trustees voting to exempt from the tax lid allowing an increase from 4.98 to 6 mills about $30,000 more. Mayor Gillette criticizes the move while Dan Fogle likens the library to a Cadillac needing a Rolls Royce.
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Dan Fogle
Board of Trustees of
Ottawa Library
City Commission
Charles Gillette
Fogle
Ottawa
KPERS
Caroline E. Hewitt Trust For the Humanities
City Park
Commissioner Fogle
Postal Service bets on souvenirs to stave off $1.3 billion loss
The Hawk Eye notes the U S Postal Service opens retail centers at 459 offices to sell mugs, T shirts, magnets, stamps, clocks and more as new revenue. It views a 10 million sponsorship for Olympic branding and foreign stamp printing rights as investment, despite doubts about demand and a stamp rate hike to 30 cents amid delivery concerns.
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Postal Service
Postiques
Korea
Commentary on reporters stalks possums and newsroom woes
A snappy column blends Jim Hitch’s pre dawn possum photo with debates on quotes accuracy and newsroom corrections. It recounts editor Ward Bushee’s near jet crash wake and notes rising readership shifts from 1967 to today, plus Mike Bugeja’s $20000 NEA fellowship for fiction writing.
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Jim Hitch
Jim
Mother Possum
Sioux Falls
8.D
Argus Leader
Ward Bushee
National Guard
Iowa
Bushee
Guard
Air Guard
Dictionary of offensive terms sparks campus outrage
A MU journalism program creates a list of words deemed offensive prompting a defender to call it loaded with bigots. The piece flags examples like fried chicken and gyp while arguing for freedom of expression and resisting censorship in media language. It cites individuals and questions the omission of terms like honky and polack.
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University of Missouri School of Journalism
Dizzy
Ivan
Jock
Johns
Pen
Airhead
United States
Unclaimed Tickets for 60s Kansas City Concert Offered
Debrie Blakeley advertises donated tickets for a Stray Animal Rescue Mission fundraiser concert featuring The Association Union Gap and the Shirrelles. Tickets may go for 50 cents as no calls have been received. Call 242-6245 for details.
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Kansas City
Cail
Debrie Blakeley
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