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The first would include 28 buildings, each with 18 one- and two-bedroom apartments, along with a clubhouse, recreation area and parking. The remaining buildings would be constructed when the first phase was fully occupied. WASHINGTON - The nation's largest labor federation is taking aim at the conservative Koch brothers in ads designed to highlight the billionaires' East Texas event center political clout and to energize liberal voters. It features Joyce and Karen Koch - who aren't related to Charles and David Koch. The women criticize the Koch brothers and their network of conservative groups, including Americans for Prosperity. The 30-second ad calls the brothers "right-wing billionaires." The union has more ads ready to go in the next few weeks.
Small said Thursday he is probably going to have the best crop he has had in 10 years. A government report released this week estimated 7 percent of the corn statewide had been cut as of the end of August, with most of the harvest activity in southeast Kansas. TOPEKA, Kan. - Democratic challenger Paul Davis has pulled his first television ad of the Kansas governor's race after the state Republican Party questioned the background of an actor in the spot. The ad featured Davis responding to criticism from Republican Governor Sam Brownback's campaign and other groups.
He received an honorary degree from Georgetown University, his alma mater, and was the commencement speaker in 1980. He is an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, although he did not complete his studies there. Schools have been named for Clinton, and statues have been built to pay him homage. U.S. states where he has been honored include Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and New York.
During the 1992 campaign, it was revealed that Clinton's uncle had attempted to secure him a position in the Navy Reserve, which would have prevented him from being deployed to Vietnam. This effort was unsuccessful and Clinton said in 1992 that he had been unaware of it until then. During the Vietnam War, Clinton received educational draft deferments while he was in England in 1968 and 1969.
The White House responded to the controversy by claiming that the firings were done in response to financial improprieties that had been revealed by a brief FBI investigation. Critics contended that the firings had been done to allow friends of the Clintons to take over the travel business and the involvement of the FBI was unwarranted. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee issued a report which accused the Clinton administration of having obstructed their efforts to investigate the affair. Special counsel Robert Fiske said that Hillary Clinton was involved in the firing and gave "factually false" testimony to the GAO, congress, and the independent counsel. On July 29, 1994, the Clinton administration launched the first official White House website, whitehouse.gov. The site was followed with three more versions, with the final version being launched on July 21, 2000.
Roberts's campaign called Taylor's withdrawal a "corrupt bargain" between Democratic leaders and a viable independent candidate, Olathe businessman Greg Orman. MANHATTAN, Kan. — A team of graduate students from Kansas and Missouri universities have won a $50,000 prize for coming up with the best redevelopment proposal for the Downtown East area of Minneapolis. The students from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City competed against 149 teams to win the Urban Land Institute's Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. After the Kansas and Missouri students were picked as finalists, they visited Minneapolis to refine their project. Last week, they presented their plan to a jury that was made up of national leaders in design and development.
It coincides with a crawfish boil, a "Battle of the Bands", a bike show/one day motorcycle rally, a motorcycle parade, and pool tournament. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 16.3 square miles , of which 16.3 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.31%) is water. The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum. The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students. Old Dominion has a complex and diverse Greek system with thirteen fraternities and eleven sororities. There is also a variety of service fraternities active on campus.
In the January 1997, State of the Union address, Clinton proposed a new initiative to provide health coverage to up to five million children. That year, Hillary Clinton shepherded through Congress the Adoption and Safe Families Act and two years later she succeeded in helping pass the Foster Care Independence Act. Bill Clinton negotiated the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 by the Republican Congress. In October 1997, he announced he was getting hearing aids, due to hearing loss attributed to his age, and his time spent as a musician in his youth. Paul Yandura, speaking for the White House gay and lesbian liaison office, said Clinton's signing DOMA "was a political decision that they made at the time of a re-election". The veteran gay rights and gay marriage activist Evan Wolfson has called these claims "historic revisionism".
Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994. The failure of the bill was the first major legislative defeat of the Clinton administration. In 1987, the media speculated that Clinton would enter the presidential race after incumbent New York governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of multiple marital infidelities.