Education candidates squared off in Baldwin City forum
In Baldwin City a Kansas House 10th District forum featured incumbent Tom Holland Democrat Rich Lorenzo Republican and Libertarian Robert Garrard. Holland urged more funding and a biannual budget for schools while Lorenzo pushed simplifying the funding formula and cutting administration costs. Garrard emphasized a public schooling approach with fewer changes.
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Baldwin City
Kansas House of Representatives
Robert Garrard
Tom Holland
Rich Lorenzo
Holland
Trict
Lorenzo
Red Cross
The
Garrard
Hershel Poor
Wellsville
Douglas County
Franklin County
Iraq war accelerates Franklin County deputy shortage
Sheriff Craig Davis won county approval to address a deputy shortfall caused by the Iraq war. With Deputy Mike Brady dead and others summoned for active duty, four deputies may be away at once. Davis may hire a new deputy and a full time temporary officer while saving unscheduled vacation days for next year.
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Cleon Rickel
Davis
Brady
Franklin County
FBI backlog in translating al Qaida surveillance data
The Justice Department audit shows the FBI fails to review over one third of al Qaida intercepts within 12 hours and long delays persist in translating thousands of hours of audio. Despite funding and staffing increases, translator backlogs remain and efficiencies in language services are inadequate according to critics.
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Curt Anderson
Associated Press
Washington
FBI
Justice Department
Glenn A. Fine
Department
Robert Mueller
Capitol Hill
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mueller
Oil hits record $50 as Saudi to raise output
Oil prices surged past 50 dollars a barrel amid Middle East instability and Nigerian violence, with Saudi Arabia announcing a 15 percent production increase to 11 million barrels per day to calm markets. Energy analysts cite Hurricane Ivan damage and OPEC spare capacity as factors shaping the rally and outlook.
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London
Middle East
Nigeria
Africa
U.S
Caribbean
Saudi Arabia
Naimi
Abu Safa
al- Qatif
Purnomo Vusgiantoro
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
New York
Mercantile Exchange
OPEC
ANZ Bank
Daniel Hynes
Melbourne
Australia
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Ottawa University
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