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February 23, 2009

In early February the LJW reported that adoptions cost between $10,000 and $40,000. Some adoptions are expensive but not all. Adoption of children from child welfare is inexpensive, rewarding and very common.

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January 25, 2009

That McDonald's coffee commercial that includes Paraguay is so annoying.

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January 13, 2009

A report from the University of Kansas found that over half of children in foster care are receiving mental health services. However few of these are family based and mental health screening may not be the most effective.

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January 7, 2009

Stevia is about to be allowed to be used as a food additive in the United States says a recent article in the LJ World. Stevia also has an interesting connection with Kansas.

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December 23, 2008

Help the economy by giving to an agency working successfully with the homeless.

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December 17, 2008

Wall Street has a credit crisis for large banks and Lawrence has a credit crisis for people with a lot less income. While Wall Street has the US Treasury as a cheap or no cost source of credit, Lawrence has plenty of sources of high cost credit.

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December 2, 2008

Governor Sebelius proposes to address the problem of a larger proportion of African-American children in state custody.

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November 25, 2008

The Wall Street Journal convenes a council of business leaders to make recommendations on energy and the environment for the new president.

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November 12, 2008

Colorado proposes to lower carbon emissions by closing two coal-fired power plants while groups in Kansas still want two new coal-fired plants.

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November 7, 2008

The newly passed Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 has potential of helping hundreds of Kansas children.

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October 22, 2008

Kansas is also proposing cuts in services to teens.

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October 16, 2008

This is the title of an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine about screening for domestic violence in emergency rooms. Unfortunately the title tells much of the story.

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October 2, 2008

Nebraska's save haven law's unintended consequences.

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September 29, 2008

Take a look at the trash can at South Park at yesterday's Feria Hispana

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September 26, 2008

The Kansas Family Advisory Network (KFAN) is a group of parents who are partners in child welfare.

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September 9, 2008

An interesting dialogue

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September 1, 2008

As we begin football season that morphs into basketball season I recall that last year the pigskin Jayhawks beat Iowa State by a score of 54 to 17 and that Self's guys beat them here and there. But Iowa is beating Kansas in the race to provide health insurance to low income children.

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August 15, 2008

Today (August 15) Paraguayans have two reasons to celebrate. It is the first democratic transfer of power in 61 years and the 467th birthday of AsunciÃ³n.

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August 11, 2008

SRS reports on the 9,187 children that were in state custody last year. How did we do in helping raise these children?

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August 6, 2008

Recent data from SRS show that children from Douglas County were placed into foster care at the rate of 2 per 1,000. This is below the state rate of 5 per 1,000.

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