Ottawa looks to plant median trees on Main Street
Downtown Ottawa considers a two lane plan with a landscaped median to calm traffic and add trees. The idea aims to improve ambience, curb big vehicle intrusion, and align with state Main Street goals as merchants weigh changes against potential traffic loss. John D. Montgomery for The Ottawa Herald.
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National Trust lists endangered small-town landmarks threat
The National Trust for Historic Preservation ranks 11 sites as most endangered. In Olathe the old Community Hospital and Baptist Church illustrate preservation versus replacement as chains expand into downtowns. President Jw Richard Moe warns major drugstore chains must adapt or main streets risk becoming strip-mall replicas.
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United States
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America
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Baptist Church
Olathe Daily News
Liberals’ drug plan risk to research and seniors
The piece argues a Medicare drug entitlement could steer policy toward price controls, turning private drug firms into public utilities and stifling innovation. It cites the Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act and critiques Democrats pushing free prescriptions as a 2000 election bribe while warning of future government price setting.
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Washington
Feds
America
Congress
Wall Street Journal
China
Firearm age change urged to reduce armed deaths
Holder and Johnson argue that restricting possession and access to guns for younger people would lower deaths from armed crime. They condemn the NRA and urge Congress to use federal power to raise the handgun purchasing age to 21, calling recent hesitation inexplicable and unconscionable.
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Eric Holder
Treasury
James Johnson
Holder
Johnson
National Rifle Association
Congress
Prejudice and hypersensitivity in modern society
Charley Reese argues that prejudice and hate are distinct, urging less hypersensitivity and more free speech. He cites Mencken quotes on nationalities, defends candid expression, and contrasts prejudice with harmful actions, asserting reason and truth flourish when speech is unfettered.
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Sidney Smith
Europe
Samuel Johnson
Johnson
England
Charley Reese
Oscreese
Aol.com
Cease-fire call in a gender war echoed by Parker
Kathleen Parker lauds Cathy Young’s Ceasefire as a needed, well researched book that argues for true equality and an end to gender-based conflict. Young’s approach rejects victimhood, notes education and health equity for all, and urges moving past obsession with gender differences.
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Young
Russia
Kathleen Parker
Orlando Sentinel
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