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Title
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Greenwood Donation to Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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The donation (1918) of the library of James Greenwood by his heirs to the Kansas City Public Library, consisting of more than 2,000 volumes, primarily nineteenth-century mathematics textbooks, is noted in a column called "Forty Years Ago: From the Files of November 8, 1918."
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Date
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1958-11-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Un-Tif'd
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Description
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Article outlines how Raytown Quality Schools Superintendent, Allan Markley, fought against the Kansas City TIF Commission and reclaimed $4 million in funds for his schools. Details of the Winchester TIF project, a plan to construct new soccer fields within Swope Park, is outlined. The author also explains the workings of tax increment financing.
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Date
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2013-04-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Saving 17,000 Kids
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Description
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Series of six articles examines the problems of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District and the measures taken by Superintendent John Covington to deal with them. In addition to examining the district in general, one of the 26 schools scheduled to close, Pinkerton Elementary, is followed as teachers and students prepare for the closing of their school.
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Date
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2010-08-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
