KDOT to release railroad crossing hazard ratings after lawsuit
The Kansas Department of Transportation faces pressure after a long refusal to disclose a public hazard rating database for every railroad crossing. Following a Garden City Telegram suit over a fatal crash, KDOT will publish the data as of the current snapshot but not ongoing figures, and asks the newspaper to pay court costs. The Chanute Tribune urges Open Records Law penalties for noncompliance.
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Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
Heather Becker
Finney County
Garden City Telegram
Reader Forum on Evolution and Creation in Kansas Classrooms
Kevin Billbe argues that Kansas Board of Education should present all theories in science classes, including creation, and questions why evolution bold claims are favored. He asserts Genesis as factual and urges teaching alternatives alongside proven and unproven theories, urging use of the Holy Bible as source.
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State of Kansas’ Board of Education
BOE
Heaven
Kevin Billbe
Box Tops for Education raised by Ottawa schools
Local Box Tops for Education drive organized by Ottawa area schools invites residents to save General Mills product logos. Participating schools include Eugene Field Garfield Hawthorne Lincoln and Sacred Heart with drop-off points at Country Mart Ottawa University and the Senior Citizen Center. Coordinators request labeling on the back to designate the recipient school.
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Ottawa
General Mills
United States
Puerto Rico
Eugene Field
Garfield
Hawthorne
Lincoln
Sacred Heart
Country Mart
Ottawa University
Ottawa Senior Citizen Center
Quality of Children and Social Engineering Debated
Lawrence columnist Vickie Hull questions for and against genetic selection and the blanket idea of human worth. She cites Helen Keller, Edwards, and historic figures to argue that all humans have value despite disabilities and that socially engineering to remove perceived defects risks erasing potential talents.
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Ties Brown
Bob Edwards
Edwards
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
France
Mary Groda Lewis
Albert Einstein
Terry Fox
Canada
Tom Cruise
John Lennon
George Patton
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Churchill
Leonardo da Vinci
Bert
Vickie Hull
Lawrence
Millennium musings versus a squirrel week top the week
Charley Reese dismisses calendar myths and millennium hype while highlighting National Squirrel Awareness Week from October 3 to 9. He notes time systems are human inventions, praising squirrels as more entertaining than a pre millennial hangover and invites readers to observe them for free.
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Gregory XIII
Julius Caesar
Caesar
Squirrel Lovers Club
Sqrlman
Mediaone.net
Charley Reese
Osoreese
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New Orleans Saints
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Rafer Johnson
James Earl Jones
John Milton
Mary Grada Lewis
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Hull
EFORP
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Pretty Girl
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Doonesbury
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