Lawmakers Target USDA Red Tape in Farm Subsidy Case
Rep Bob Whittaker and Rep Pat Roberts press USDA over misclassifying 38000 Methodist churches that own farm land as a single person for subsidies. They argue the agency wrongly assigns church land records to Ness County ALCS office amid broader aid eligibility confusion and await progress reports from USDA.
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Bob Whittaker
Pat Roberts
USDA
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
Whittaker
Ness County
ALCS
Roberts
Department Operations
Foreign Agriculture
Brain drain fix: Kansas tax credits for Merit Scholars
Governor Hayden proposes tax breaks to keep National Merit Scholars in Kansas by offsetting education loan payments if they live and work here. Critics say the state must first create jobs across the state to attract talent, or graduates will relocate for opportunity.
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Mike Hayden
Kansas
Ottawa Herald subscription rates 1966 update
Ottawa Herald lists revised subscription prices effective July 1 1966 for local Ottawa area by carrier or mail and Franklin County surrounding counties and all other areas. Local one month four dollars, one year forty dollars. Franklin County and adjacent counties four fifty per month and forty eight per year. other areas five fifty per month and sixty dollars per year. Out of state subscribers incur five point five percent sales tax.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
The Lost Art of Penmanship in Modern Letters
A writer reflects on deteriorating handwriting due to longhand fade and reliance on keyboards. He recalls Palmer method training, notes frequent handwritten letters at The Herald, and laments machines producing cursive as a lost art while praising mixed printing with cursive by some writers.
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Patti
Marcie
Palmer
the Herald
Review of Lf At First by Keith Hernandez
The author, credited to Hernandez but ghostwritten, presents a solid but controversial memoir of the 1986 Mets championship season. The reviewer mocks the book’s tone while noting its emotional impact on Cubs fans and baseball readers, with scenes from page quotes and odd asides about fans and Shea Stadium.
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New York
Chicago
Keith Hernandez
New York Mets
Hernandez
Wrigley Field
Mets
City of New York
Dand
New York City
Shea Stadium
Platoon leaves audience angry and unpersuaded
A reader reviews the Vietnam war film Platoon, finding it realistic yet ultimately unsatisfying. The piece laments the movie’s failure to connect frontline horrors with government policy and the mass duty to serve, arguing it indirectly supports sending men to war and enables killers.
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Vietnam
Nicaragua
Bare Truth Aphorisms Compiled In Quick Quips
A collection of humorous observations on work fame fashion weather and education. The passages poke at modern life noting working class labels changing attitudes toward beauty jeans education white collars and daily routines with wry understated humor.
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White House
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Met
Royko
Platoon
Doke McCormally
Harria Newa Service
Eddie
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