Ottawa housing shortage prompts urgent action urged
Editorial notes Ottawa faces a critical housing deficit. Task force of Realtors bankers developers and contractors, commissioned by the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce in 1999, urges city commissioners to act now. They fault public works for a nondevelop er friendly climate and warn three months of inaction risks widespread demand.
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Ottawa
Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce
Public Works Department
Scott Lambers
Community letter urges USD 290 to keep full music program
Kent M. Melcher from Ottawa argues against consolidating music staff in USD 290. He praises Mr Jack Eadie’s decades of instrumental focus, counters a single music teacher policy, and warns that reducing staff will limit instrumental and vocal offerings and contest participation for current and future OHS students.
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Jack Eadie
Eadie
Findlay, T
USD 290
OHS
Kent M. Melcher
Ottawa
Higher Ed Regime Grows as Kansas Budget Strains
Kansas lawmakers created a unified Higher Education Coordination Act in 1999 merging the community colleges and four year universities under a single regents system. The 2000 budget year tests the new structure as a $60 million cut and funding shifts loom, with future shortages expected and the big question of how to balance interests among regents, colleges, and taxpayers. Martin Hawver notes the governor backed funding and warns the 2001 session will reveal the system’s true strength and limits.
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Kansas
Higher Education Coordination Act
Kansas Board of Regents
State Board of Regents
Community Colleges
Teggatoe Iveraranabe
Regents
Bill Graves
Railsters
Martin Hawver
Hawver
Capitol Report
Hawvernews.com
Do You Want to be Bobby Knight Quiz Show Spoof
A spoof quiz featuring Attila T Hun as a contestant on a hairbrain game show. The host and contestants trade blunt jokes about choking and insults while the pupil navigates a series of morally dubious questions related to basketball coaching and leadership.
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Bobby Knight
Regis Dustbin
Attila T. Hun
Mr. Hun
University of Indiana
Indiana
Secre
Tary
Puerto Rico
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad
Attila ‘T. Hun
Attila
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