Local Businesses Honored in Franklin County Month
Ottawa and Franklin County leaders announce support for local firms during Business Appreciation Month. A banquet will honor area businesses for their community contributions, with emphasis on shopping locally to strengthen the regional economy.
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Kansas
Pomona
Wellsville
Wellsville Bank
Williamsburg
Guy and Mae
Ottawa
Lawrence
Kansas City
Ottawa City Commission
Franklin County Commission
Landmark rails to trails ruling sets federal compensation precedent
A federal judge ordered the United States to compensate Paul and Patricia Preseault of Burlington Vermont about 234000 plus substantial interest for a land strip under 500 feet taken for the Burlington Bicycle Trail. The verdict, affirmed after appeals, marks the first takings award against the U S for rail to trail land seizures.
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Vermont
United States
Lake Champlain
Paul
Patricia Preseault
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U.S. Court of Appeals For the
Federal Circuit
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Nels Ackerson
Preseaults
Cecilia Fox
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Kansas
Dale E. Anderson
Garnett
Imbalance in state fuels education funding debate in Kansas
David Lee accuses Ottawa Herald columnists of cowardice in a satirical letter as Sen Robert Tyson voices critique of state education spending. The piece contrasts intra state competition with inter state figures, noting Johnson County funds and local option budgets, and cites Lawrence High resignations to Blue Valley. Dr Bud Gollier, Ottawa physician, writes as biweekly Community Viewpoints.
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David Lee
Ottawa Herald
David
Mattie Perry
Vern Brown
Bill Clinton
Arlo Hermreck
John Coen
Denis Ford
Robert Tyson
Sen
Jeffords
Vermont
Kansas
Anderson
Franklin
Bourbon
Linn
Miami
Tyson
Johnson County
East
Colorado
Missouri
Nebraska
Olathe
Shawnee Mission
Blue Valley
Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence High School
Lawrence High
Sara Jane
Turner
Kansas City
Kan
Muncie
Bud Gollier
Abstract thinking harms realistic policy outcomes
The essay argues that thinking in the abstract misleads on human rights and policy. It cites Edmund Burke and James Foreman on how high or abstract ideals fail to translate to lived conditions, and warns that concrete, context-based reasoning preserves property rights and enforceable contracts in a free society.
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Edmund Burke
France
James Foreman
North
South
Foreman
Hubert Humphrey
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