NCCC funding pressures push tuition and growth plans in Kansas
Editorial notes that NCCC across Kansas faces revenue shortfalls with a $300,000 gap affecting the Ottawa campus. It urges empowering the Ottawa campus dean Mark Eldridge to drive growth via interactive TV and dual credit with seven local high schools, plus strong ties to RMH, USD 290, and Ottawa University.
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Chanute
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Mark Eldridge
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
Ottawa Uni
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Cisco
Ottawa University
Tech Center
Franklin County
Draft Sign-Ups Shift in an All-Volunteer System
Lawrence Journal World discusses the U S Selective Service sign ups for 18 year olds and the weak citizen response despite ongoing volunteer forces. It notes Kansas 86 percent compliance equal to the national average with a 5 point drop from 2000 to 2001 and suggests reinstituting the draft or adopting universal military training for both sexes to deter future attacks.
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Lawrence Journal-World
Kansas
Main
Montana
Rhode Island
United States
Political Contacts From Kansas Leaders and White House Links
A list of names and offices including President George Bush, U.S. Senators Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, U.S. Representative Jim Ryun, Governor Bill Graves, and Kansas state legislators Robert Tyson Ralph Tanner and Bill Feverborn. It provides office addresses in Washington and Topeka with phone numbers and website URLs for each official.
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George Bush
White House
Washington
D.C
Whitehouse
U.S
Pat Roberts
Hart Senate
Pat
My barber shop memories and a manly rite of passage
Joe Klock Sr recalls old era barbershops with leather chairs and shaving mugs, contrasts them with modern unisex salons, and muses on gender norms, locker room traditions, and changing social spaces while weaving humor about haircuts past and present.
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Police Gazette
National Football League
National Basketball Association
Joe Klock, Sr
Key Largo
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Kansas flag and war memorial flagpole dispute
Ottawa Vietnam era veteran Bill Farrow argues the Kansas flag should not fly on the same pole as the war memorial. He notes gaps at the county annex and suggests donating a flagpole for Kanza Park. He asserts the memorial honors Americans, not only Kansas veterans, and criticizes three flags on one pole.
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War Memorial
Jim Grogan
Memorial
Intrust Bank
Lamb-Roberts- Heise Funeral Home
Annex
Kanza Park
Harvey Nicholson
Bill Farrow
Ottawa
Kansas Legislature ends amid tax fights between Kerr and Glasscock
The Kansas Legislature wraps up after a record long session marked by public blame between Speaker Kent Glasscock and Senate President Dave Kerr. The feud reportedly delayed work by 16 days, costing millions, while both pursue governor runs. Tax hikes and finger pointing dominated the ending weeks.
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Kansas
House
Kent Glasscock
Senate
Dave Kerr
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