Kansas Legislature approves education and transport upgrades
The Kansas Legislature passed an education bill delivering a two year base aid increase of 50 per pupil, raising funding to 3770 for the coming year and adding 50 for 2000 01. A transportation bill allocates nearly 13 billion over 10 years for roads airports rail and transit with a 4 cent gas tax rise over five years. Governor Graves praised the package as a major achievement and foresightful public investment.
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Bill Graves
Graves
Gun control debates flare in editorials across papers
Editorial excerpts from The Register-Guard The Advocate Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Journal discuss gun control after Clinton's proposals and the Columbine shootings. They urge balanced debate on policy and social factors while noting limits of regulation and the complicating role of the Internet and culture.
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Ore
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Charles Schumer
D-N.y
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Baton Rouge
Colorado
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Littleton
Albuquerque
N.M
Smith & Wesson
Lionel
Colo
Do It Yourself Surgery and Insurance Shame
Vickie Hull, a Lawrence columnist, reflects on modern preop and postop care. She contrasts old hospital routines with today’s do it yourself preparation and insurance dictated recovery, detailing a painful, wakeful surgery experience and the strange gates of access to healthcare.
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Evet Raeetek
Entins Hospital
Gill
O.R
Vickie Hull
Lawrence
NATO's Mission and Ethnic Cleansing Reflections
A columnist argues NATO faces endless work fighting ethnic cleansing, condemns Western hypocrisy over Palestinian refugees and other global conflicts, and predicts NATO will be blamed for future violence as it pursues a mandate to end ethnic cleansing.
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Slobodan Milosevic
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Gaza
East Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Milosevic
United States
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Poland
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