By Lakiesha McGhee, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Dec. 4--Almost six months on the job and the new superintendent of the Washington Unified School District has had a taste of the toughest issues facing West Sacramento schools.

By George Gurley, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Dec. 3--A year or two ago, my neighbor leaned over the fence that separates our properties and told me that he'd sold his 80 acres. The new owner proposed to put some cattle on the land, he said.

By Ron Knox, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Nov. 21--When Kenneth Click and his family moved to the Lawrence area four years ago, they liked what they saw. Good schools. A job for his wife just down the road in Topeka.

By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Oct. 17--Robert Krause insists all he wants to do is serve world-class cuisine to no more than 30 people a night. What he's gotten himself into, though, is the equivalent of eating barbecue without a napkin -- a mess.

By Terry Rindfleisch, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Jul. 19--Few surgeons are more loved by their patients than Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence.