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In criticizing the Sedgwick County Commission's decision to restore the Community Health Improvement Plan coordinator, commissioners Richard Ranzau and Karl Peterjohn find name-calling helpful: "Nanny-state progressives" and "nanny-state drones" . Their name-calling is as uninformed as it is unimaginative.
Here is another reason the Legislature needs to revisit its tax cuts: Providers of community-based services to Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities are struggling to pay bills and keep employees. It's been eight years since the state has increased reimbursement rates to I/DD service providers.
State lawmakers have finally taken a bold step toward addressing the looming teacher shortage in public schools. The Republican super majorities in the House and Senate worked with Democrats to create a scholarship program to encourage bright high school students to enter the teaching profession.
Is there anyone out there who could explain to me why any U.S. citizen with a stable mentality and any common sense would think that Hillary Clinton would make a good president for our country? Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch in Washington, D.C., has a list of about 25 illegal acts she is accused of committing. When leaving the White House at the end of the Clinton administration, she took some dishes and furniture.
During day five of Katlyn Marin's murder trial, the judge listened to numerous phone calls secretly recorded between Marin and her ex-boyfriend, including the first phone call he made to her after... Red Sox starter David Price threw eight innings of shutout baseball, getting his first win as a visitor at Tropicana Field and leading Boston to a 6-2 ... (more)
When my syndicate editor told me a few clients had been asking, Don't you have anyone over there who can write something positive about Donald Trump? , I thought, well, that could be fun. Then, as if the Muses and Fates had conspired to help me in this Olympian task, everything in Trump World changed.
Mercersburg fire department receives grant The fire company received more than $200,000 through a grant from the Department of Homeland Security. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://ponews.co/2bgC07x MERCERSBURG - The Mercersburg Montgomery Peters and Warren Fire Company received more than $200,000 through a grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
Part of the evolution of post-internet life in our society is the growing notion - particularly in the media and on university campuses - is the notion that consumers of content should be warned that some of that content might offend them or make them uncomfortable. We long ago accepted trigger warnings of a sort in television: "The following program contains scenes of and may not be suitable for all audiences.
From local residents collecting donations for flood victims in Louisiana to a large donation of school supply kits to a local school, there was no shortage of good news throughout Northeast Mississippi last week. Before we prepare for the week ahead, let's take a look back at some of the highlights from last week: a Several groups and individuals in Northeast Mississippi worked to collect and deliver donations to the victims of flooding in Louisiana and south Mississippi.
Last Thursday, Donald Trump unveiled his new self, thus adding a new wrinkle to an already wild and crazy campaign. His narcissism had lost his magic, the triumphant bully having morphed into the hapless bull in a china shop.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks past Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during a ceremony marking the 70st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2015. [Photo/Agencies] Aug 6 and 9 are days of mourning for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Steve Saltzman, vice president of Dave's Markets, testified in June before Cleveland City Council that raising the minimum wage to $15 in Cleveland only would devastate local businesses, including his own. Behind Saltzman are dozens of demonstrators, wearing T-shirts in support of the minimum wage initiative.
Courts found that up to 600,000 Texans lacked the forms of identification the state required, with minorities disproportionately affected. They noted that the state's efforts to education voters on voter ID was lackluster at best.
When folks think of the Lone Star State, they might think of Big Oil and big emissions. But here's another, equally accurate image that folks might not think of when it comes to Texas: clean energy leader.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may well be the best things that have happened to a free press in a long time. "Best" not in terms of ratings, circulation, advertising or such, though some media will see a temporary bump up.
This time, Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration and Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services needs to get it right. In contrast with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, state and local governments have performed admirably with rescues, evacuations, and provision of food and shelter in response to catastrophic flooding that has overtaken the Baton Rouge area.
Hillary Clinton can credit most of her lead in the polls to D. J. Trump, perhaps the most incompetent, unqualified, uneducable candidate ever to darken a presidential campaign. But Trump's not her only asset.