Clinton lecture at KU signals serious civics teaching
Bill Clinton spoke at Allen Fieldhouse for the Dole Lecture Series to a crowd of about 12,000 including students, retirees, bank staff, and party members. He treated partisanship as a historical and current challenge, urging dialogue over confrontation and leaving listeners with thoughtful questions and a sense of ongoing work toward a more perfect union.
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Open records bill expands foster care disclosure in Kansas
Gov Kathleen Sebelius signed a new open records law expanding access to foster care and adoption records in cases involving death or serious injury. The measure responds to the Brian Edgar case and gives adoptive families court rights to challenge record openings. The governor also vetoed a lobbyist freebies disclosure bill, arguing the public deserves to know which legislators receive free meals and drinks.
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Brian Edgar
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Memoir of a World War II Veteran Jim Sharp
A daughter-in-law reflects on Jim Sharp, a WWII veteran who kept wartime memories private until late life. His diary details Ardennes Hurtgen Forest and other campaigns, his Bronze Star and Purple Heart, farm life, postwar career, and commitment to family, church, and community. He supported veterans efforts recording oral histories with Riley County Historical Society in Manhattan.
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Remembering D-Day at Normandy Cemetery Six Decades On
May Lynn and I visited the Normandy D-Day sites a week before Memorial Day. The cemetery overlooks Easy Red where units of the 29th and 1st Infantry landed. More than 9,000 graves mark the battlefield, with 307 unknowns. France gifted the site to the United States in perpetuity.
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