Editorials Now what, Dick
Kansas congressman Dick Nichols plans re election amid reapportionment confusion. With the 5th District to disappear, Nichols could enter the 1st 2nd or 4th Districts depending on the final reapportionment map approved by the Kansas Supreme Court.
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McPherson
Nichols
Pat Roberts
Roberts
Jim Slattery
Franklin County
Topeka
Dan Glickman
Wichita
Johnson
Douglas
Wyandotte
Miami
Oyster
Kansas Supreme Court
Katy
Winter Quits Senate After Ten Years as Kansan Statesman
Winter Rex-Lawrence known as a school friend and key reformer resigns from the Kansas Senate after a decade. He cites burnout and time with his two daughters, balancing law practice with leadership roles in Judiciary and Ways and Means. Gene Budig lauds him as a great friend of higher education.
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Sen. Winter
Southeast Kansas Redistricting Sparks Editorial Outcry
The Coffeyville Journal blasts southeast Kansas redistricting as among the worst, saying Montgomery County was carved from its neighbors to favor Geary and Riley counties. It urges Gov. Finney to veto the bill, noting politics overshadowed regional unity and calling for signed letters with addresses.
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Coffeyville Journal
Joan Finney
Kansas
U.S
Finney
Montgomery County
Geary and Riley
Fort Riley
Geary
Riley
Slattery
Mom My Army Mother Inspired My Quiet Farewell
A son recalls his military mother through personal vignettes from Michigan childhood to Okinawa moves and a sudden death. He attributes strength, humor, and resilience to her, ending with a tearful goodbye at her grave and a wish to have written the tribute sooner.
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Olathe Daily News
Michigan
Joe
Okinawa
States
Letters Former Williamsburg resident saddened by status quo
Former Williamsburg resident laments decline of the town, recalling coal era exodus, decayed communities, empty streets, and vanished local businesses. The note honors ancestors and local figures such as Mount Hope and Central cemeteries, Fogle family ties, and a Chicago Daily News connection.
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Williamsburg
Williamsburg High School
Kansas
Home and
Fogle
Mount Hope and
Central Cemeteries
Uday
Quenemo
Homewood
Silkville
Central
Mount Hope
Frank Fogle
City Hall
Chicago Daily News
Capt
George Fogle
Hawaii
Stone
University of Chicago
Ernest Ewers
Burma
Daily News
Thomas Wolfe
Tax policy debate in George Pyle column
Dorothy Beesley of Pomona questions a May Ottawa Herald column advocating taxing the wealthy to aid the poor. She argues wealth derives from hard work for many and notes debt and lifestyle choices complicate blanket calls to tax without exception. She invokes ant and grasshopper fable to illustrate her view.
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George Pyle
The
Ottawa Herald
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