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Progress, senior living hand-in-hand
(Column ~ 03/08/02)
Two special parts of today's Gazette -- the Senior Living section and the Progress pages -- may sound unrelated, but, in recent years, they have become closely related in the Golden Plains of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas. Why's that the case? Because, as we have moved from one century to another, retirement living has become one of the major growth industries in this region...
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Open Letter
(Column ~ 03/08/02)
Gov. Mike Johanns and State Senators: We the voters of Nebraska who put the governor and the state lawmakers in office were hoping that they could run a balanced budget. Now that we are $183 million short, they look for LB1149 to bail them out. I think we have made significant contributions for the last 26 or 27 years to fund universities and several other projects in the state. ...
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School project
(Column ~ 03/08/02)
I am an eighth grade student at Washington Manor Middle School in San Leandro, Calif. I am currently doing a school project that entails planning a vacation to your fine state. I would greatly appreciate any information or memorabilia that your generous readers could send me. ...
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No tax on food
(Column ~ 03/08/02)
You do not want sales taxes on food. Food is high enough already. Your property taxes will take care of it if you will just budget.
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Everyone has a right to be a buffoon, even Charles Barkley
(Column ~ 03/08/02)
You could never call Charles Barkley dull. He is the "Girth that Roared." He is an National Basketball Association Hall of Famer with a non-stop motormouth. Barkley played several season for the Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets...
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Dale Marlin Steinbeck
(Obituary ~ 03/08/02)
FORT MORGAN, Colo. -- Dale Marlin Steinbeck, 70, died Wednesday (March 6, 2002) at the Colorado Plains Medical Center in Fort Morgan, Colo. He was born Jan. 24, 1932, in Dundy County to Richard and Mary (Bernard) Steinbeck, and attended country school near Doane, west of Benkelman. He served in the United States Air Force...
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