Ottawa program offers six hours paid leave for parents
The Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce and Ottawa Board of Education announce a Parents in Education program allowing voluntary employer enrollment for up to six hours of paid annual leave. Parents can arrange visits with teachers to observe their children's schooling, with minimal bureaucratic requirements. The move signals listening to parents amid national debates on family leave.
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Ottawa
Chamber
Perot gas tax proposal tested by Clinton and Bush
A columnist argues Perot could push a 50 cent a gallon gas tax over five years to fund rebuilding, while politics would resist such policy. It compares gas price history, car costs, and inflation, noting public reaction and potential shifts to gain broad support.
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Bill Clinton
George Bush
Ross Perot
Clinton
Bush
Perot
Somone
Ford
Perot's comeback and the cost of political power
The piece critiques Ross Perot's 1992 campaign role and party supporters while highlighting how money drives politics. It argues that defense spending persists despite calls for peace, noting a $274 billion fiscal 1993 budget and projected $346 billion by 1997, funded by lobbying and local jobs despite questions of necessity. The author contends Bush and Clinton accept this dynamic and that Perot misreads the problem, offering no clear solution.
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Jesus Christ
McNeill-Teher
Ross Pero
Adi
Pert
Huston
Bush
Bill Clinton
Perot
Jesse Jackson
Pat Buchanan
Socialist Worker
Washington
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
Pentagon
Clinton
Ross Perot
Cracking myths about prison system in Kansas
Kansas will spend at least 194 million dollars to run a state prison system for about 6100 inmates. The piece argues the system wastes money behind myths of protection deterrence debt repayment and rehabilitation, highlighting rising costs new facilities and looming tougher sentencing laws. It notes capacity and monthly inmate growth could exhaust space within a year and critiques recidivism and humane care within prisons.
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Topeka
Kansas
Hutchinson
Lansing
Norton
Ellsworth
E Dorado
Winfield
State Department of Corrections
Beloit
Atchison
Lamed
Sentencing Commission
State Parole and Corrections Ombudsman Boards
el Dorado
City debates livestock permit policy and parent care proposals
Ottawa city commission weighs livestock request with questions on permits and doctor prescribed goat milk. A reader praises a program allowing parents time off to visit children, suggesting a visit to lunch and recess, while critiquing food service comments.
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Ottawa
Shaw
City Commission
Warren
Food Service
It's Your Quarter community dialogue opinions
Readers share views on teen pregnancy birth control and modern life with comments on schooling roads cable TV storms and public figures. Letters reference abortion politics HBO storms obscene calls and a call line for opinions.
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