Close presidential race with recount expected
Tuesday night ends in a razor tight contest with Florida pivotal at 25 electoral votes. Gore concedes then recants as Bush leads. Congress seats undecided. Missouri voters elect Mel Carnahan posthumously to Senate. Hillary Clinton becomes New York senator. Result unclear, elections matter, every vote counts.
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Informed voting urge in Third District race
Ottawa reader urges voters to use nonpartisan resources like Project Vote Smart to learn candidate positions. Agent notes Jim Ryan filed the NPAT questionnaire while Stan Wiles did not, highlighting a lack of completed surveys as a barrier to assessing stances.
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Political contact list for national and Kansas officials
A fragmented directory lists offices for President Bill Clinton and senators Pat Roberts Sam Brownback with addresses in Washington D C and Kansas officials including Governor Bill Graves and state legislators in Topeka. It provides street addresses phone numbers and some web links. The snippet resembles an alphabet soup of political contacts with incomplete lines and garbled entries.
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Voters Face Disappointment as Bush Gore Showdown Ends
Dr Bud Gollier, Ottawan physician and former school board member, reflects in a biweekly Community Viewpoints piece on the 2000 election. He predicts the winner, critiques tax cut rhetoric, and questions public faith while noting media scrutiny over Bush's past and Gore's proposals.
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Parents Shouldn’t Share All Mistakes With Children
A late column weighs the Bush drunken driving affair and whether leaders should reveal past sins. The author argues parents should not disclose every error to children, noting grown behavior shifts and the risk of misinterpreting past mistakes as acceptable. He urges prudent, contextual honesty over fulsome confessions.
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