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- Kendall: Higher taxes coming soon to Shawnee
- September 18, 2013
- Get ready, Shawnee, your taxes are going up.
- De Soto school board spars over $1 million technology buy
- 09:46 a.m., September 18, 2013 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- The problem isn’t with the amount of money spent on new technology infrastructure equipment, but with the way it was spent.
- Affordable Care Act: Will young, healthy people purchase insurance?
- September 18, 2013
- The Affordable Care Act has a goal of near-universal coverage in the U.S., but for that to happen many young, healthy Americans will have to buy insurance. Otherwise, experts say, costs may go up for everyone else, such as people with pre-existing conditions, who for the first time will be able to purchase insurance without restrictions.
- Affordable Care Act: KU MedWest doesn’t expect big changes
- September 18, 2013
- How the law often known as Obamacare affects medical practices remain to be seen, but many physicians and health care experts say they don’t expect that doctors’ offices will experience a lot of changes.
- Scott: In the end, how will they tell your story?
- September 18, 2013
- Everybody has a story. It makes no difference whether it’s the chief executive of a major corporation who makes a gazillion dollars a year, the janitor who cleans the local school building or the panhandler on the corner looking for a little charity to get him by for awhile until he can entreat the next passerby for another crumpled dollar bill.
Point of View
What’s your favorite place in Shawnee, and why?
“The magic bike path (75th and Pflumm) winds lazily through water and trees. I feel like I’m in fairy tale land!”
