by Mike Schneider Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau on Feb. 6 halted plans to change how it asks people about disabilities after facing a growing backlash Advocates for disabled people had argued that proposed changes to disability questions on the bureau’s American Community Survey would artificially reduce their numbers by more than 40 …
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OKC Bombing “Surreal” 28 Years Later
by Kevin Burton A bomb blast that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City 28 years ago today, reverberates still. My wife Jeannette worked at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building for the department of Housing and Urban Development for 5½ years from 1983 to 1989. Six years after she relocated to Wichita, that …
Skunk Baxter’s Unlikely Second Act
His parents named him Jeffrey, you know him as Skunk. How did he get the nickname Skunk? He isn’t saying. He played guitar for two of the best rock and roll bands ever, Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a …
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