Two Kiowa districts abandon consolidation push in two-year grace
Kansas lawmakers offered a two-year grace to encourage district consolidation. Greensburg USD 422 and Mullinville USD 424 rejected the plan as savings from consolidation would come after year three. They fear staff cuts and tax increases. Mullinville must now fund operations with flat enrollment and a near-maximum tax levy.
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Doles presidency bid collapsed by money over popularity
The Topeka Capital Journal notes Elizabeth Dole exited the presidential race due to campaign money overwhelment. It highlights her as a groundbreaking candidate with Cabinet and Red Cross leadership, yet money and donor flow to Bush ended her run, a commentary on money politics and public disengagement.
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Floyd relief effort nets 571 donation boxes in two hours
Community Revival Center Church led a Franklin flood aid drive, collecting 571 boxes, mostly apple sized, in two hours. The shipment arrived Thursday, with UPS and local churches coordinating drop sites, packing, labeling, and transport to Franklin, Virginia, amid widespread community thanks.
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Shawnee
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Reunion blues haunt nonclassmate spouses at old cookout
Vickie Hull reflects on a high school reunion where nonclassmates and their spouses felt left out as old memories dominated conversations. She warns such events strain marriages, suggesting behavior police, signed talks, or cuffing couples to prevent further loneliness and flirting.
Free society traits and U S views in 1999
Charley Reese argues that true freedom requires private property, constitutional rule, independent press, defined borders, and moral citizens. He criticizes environmental law use, the Federal Reserve, judicial overreach, and calls American tradition an English, Magna Carta rooted system while warning against multiculturalism undermining core liberties.
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