Bushaw gets it.
I agree wholeheartedly with William J. Bushaw's Punchback commentary, "The Public Seems to Get It" (February 2007). As the director of the statewide, federally funded Parent Information Resource Center in Kansas, I am trying to lend support to family literacy programs. A new study in Alberta, Canada...

Former coach, principal Gillis dies at age 66.
Byline: OBITUARIES by The Register-Guard Keith Gillis JUNCTION CITY - A celebration of life will be held Oct. 8 for Keith Daniel Gillis of Junction City, who died Oct. 2 of cancer. He was 66. He was born Jan. 23, 1939, in Annapolis,...

ISRAEL - Apr 27 - Israeli Tank Fire Kills Gaza Children.
A Palestinian mother and four of her children are killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip, amid contradictory claims over who was responsible for the deaths. Local reports said an Israeli tank shell hit their home in the village of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the territory...

ARAB-US RELATIONS - Apr 23 - Bush And Jordanian King Meet On Mideast.
President George W. Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan met privately for breakfast, as the White House tries to resuscitate the ailing Middle East peace talks before Bush leaves for Israel next month. The breakfast session was brief, lasting less than an hour, and the White House would not...

ARAB US RELATIONS - May 4 - Rice Maintains Heat On Israel Over Settlements.
Condoleezza Rice says she still believed that Israel and the PA could reach a peace agreement by the end of the year, shrugging off concerns over the lack of progress in the negotiations. On her latest trip to the Middle East, the US secretary of state offered more direct...

ISRAEL - June 8 - Jerusalem Issue Likely To Prevent Accord This Year, Israeli Says.
An Israeli government official has acknowledged that the crucial issue of the future status of Jerusalem is unlikely to be resolved in negotiations with Palestinians this year, reflecting the abiding gaps between the sides. Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, said that Israel was still...

ARAB ISRAEL RELATIONS - June 15 - Israeli Plan Threatens Peace Talks, Says Rice.
Israel confirms plans to build 1,300 homes in the ultraorthodox Ramat Shlomo area of East Jerusalem Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, warns that the Israeli government's plan to build hundreds of new housing units in the occupied West Bank Jewish settlement of Ramat Shlomo might hurt already...

Saving the Chesapeake with federal funds.
For many Virginia poultry and cattle farmers living along the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the U.S., federal funding is the key to keeping the water clean. The bay is suffering from algae blooms and a decline in fish habitat caused by excess nutrients from nearby farms. ...

ARABS-ISRAELI RELATIONS - Mar 29 - Israel Agrees To Reduce Roadblocks In West Bank.
Israel agrees to remove about 50 roadblocks in the West Bank and promises Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is visiting here, that it would upgrade checkpoints to reduce the waiting time for Palestinians who have been hampered in their efforts to go about their daily lives. This is...

ARABS-ISRAELI RELATIONS - Apr 7 - Israeli And Palestinians Revive Peace Talks With High Hopes.
Meeting after a break of almost two months, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders agree that peace talks will continue from now on without interruption, despite concerns on both sides about the situation on the ground, an Israeli official said. The goal, said Mark Regev, a spokesman for PM Ehud...