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The Garden City High School Debate team finished the national qualifying tournament for the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) on April 17
th. The team qualified a number of students that will be competing at the national tournament this June. The team also received a series awards from the NSDA. The school belongs to the West Kansas NSDA.
The following students have earned qualifying spots and will be competing at the national tournament. The team qualified a number of seniors for nationals in Public Forum Debate. They are Reagan Wright and Gracie Mueller. This will be Mueller’s fourth national competition. She is only GCHS’ second ever four time qualifier for national competition. Other qualifying students include: Jessica Angulo/Riley Metheney, Duo Interpretation; Maddie Stout/Chelsea Valadez, Duo Interpretation; Jessica Angulo, Humorous Interpretation (deferred for Duo); Jacob Wegner, Humorous Interpretation; Jyothi Kalaikkal, Program Oral I
COVID vaccinations for armed forces, presidential work, disabled access, herd immunity, poverty
Readers recall lining up for shots in basic training; suggest Biden has more important things to do; try to parse Abbott’s statement; and press for more specifics to address poverty.
Soldiers line up to get a shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Epiclachima Military Fort in Quito, Ecuador.(Dolores Ochoa)
Vaccinations for military
When I joined the U.S. Air Force in 1977, I knew that I signed over my life to the military. I did not expect special treatment.
During basic training, we would line up to get various shots as we passed through a line with our sleeves pulled up. The shots were administered by jet injectors, and the people administering the shots told us not to move at all or it would rip our arms open. I ended up getting a dose of German measles after one vaccination and had to be admitted to the infirmary for several days. We were required to receive these shots
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If you care about housing the homeless in Dallas, you need to know Mandy Chapman Semple
For months now, Mandy Chapman Semple has quietly worked behind the scenes to make sense of a homeless assistance network in North Texas that looks a lot like a bowl of spaghetti dozens of good-hearted providers pulling in different directions with no system in place to measure their own impact, let alone their collective impact on getting people off of the streets.
With the support of the Meadows Foundation, Dallas Foundation and six other major foundations, Semple, who is credited with making a dent in Houston’s homeless population in 2012, is working as a consultant on homelessness in Dallas. And what she’s noticed so far is cause for pause. “The path out of homelessness is not very clear,” she recently told the Dallas City Council. “The components are not organized in a way to make it easy and efficient to resolve their homelessness.”
Two cities tried to fix homelessness, only one succeeded
Housing First is considered a best practice for addressing homelessness, but where one city succeeded, another still struggles. A surge in pandemic homeless aid will help, but experts say only with strategic planning.
Audrey Jensen, Jill Ryan, Chloe Jones and Madeline Ackley Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
HOUSTON Nearly a decade ago, two U.S. cities with large homeless populations tried to solve their problem by adopting a strategy that prioritized giving people housing and help over temporary shelter.
But Houston and San Diego took fundamentally different approaches to implementing that strategy, known as Housing First. Houston revamped its entire system to get more people into housing quickly, and it cut homelessness by more than half. San Diego attempted a series of one-off projects but was unable to expand on the lessons learned and saw far fewer reductions in homelessness.