Kansas universities seek higher pay for top faculty
The Board of Regents aims to raise faculty salaries with a base 3.5 percent hike plus merit pools. Legislation splits: House offers about 1 million for merit pay, while Senate favors roughly 900 thousand more than the governor for a 4.8 to 5 percent average. The plan targets 7 percent for the best professors, tying pay to merit amid budget pressures and competition from private sector and peer institutions.
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Bill Graves
Board of Regents
Graves
Kansas House
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Ways and Means Committee
University of Kansas
Kansas
Slot machines at pari mutuel tracks in Kansas rejected
Guest editorial argues against extending slot machines and electronic gambling at Kansas pari mutuel race tracks. It notes statewide gambling already exists via the Lottery and northeast casinos, and cites Sen Sherman Jones's rationale to protect local tracks while warning the bill could spread gambling statewide.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Wichita
Eureka
Anthony
Sherman Jones
Woodlands
Missouri
Hays Daily News
Don’t Plan Our Vacations The PC Police Don’t Speak For Us
Charley Reese argues that national park visitation quotas reflect political correctness not freedom. He questions how many black visitors qualify as enough and who decides, claiming many choose recreation freely. He rejects government pressure to change leisure choices and condemns bureaucrats trying to “plan” summer trips.
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National Park Service
National Parks
Washington
National Park
National Park, and I Live An Easy Drive From One of Them, the Everglades
Everglades
U.S. Army
Marine Corps
Charley Reese
Oscreese
Aol.com
Wrestling gender lines on mats sparks old debates
A personal essay reflects on girls wrestling boys in junior high, praising Title IX progress yet questioning mixed-sex contact sports. It notes rising female participation from 112 in 1990 to 1,629 in 1997, and mentions women's wrestling as an Olympic sport starting in 2000, while contrasting social norms across generations.
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Venus
USA Wrestling
Independent Counsel Law Debated in Editorials
Editorials from The Daily Times Houston Chronicle and The Tampa Tribune critique the independent counsel statute. They argue extending the law is unnecessary, costly, and political, while noting past prosecutions and the need for decisive leadership. The Tampa piece calls for a formal renaming of the Florida Turnpike as the Ronald Reagan Turnpike.
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The
Daily Times
Farmington
N.M
Office of
Independent Counsel
OIC
Houston Chronicle
U.S
Leon Jaworski
Nixon
Justice Department
Kenneth Starr
Congress
Tampa
Fla
Ronald Reagan
Florida
Reagan
Soviet Union
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Trevel
P.C
King Features Syndicate
Kathleen
Parker
Tribune Media Services
United States
Doonesbury
Aagar Twaterere
Mallard Fillmore
Cashon
ASZE
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