KU Band Leader Robert Foster Passes Baton at KU
Longtime director of bands at Kansas University, Robert E. Foster, steps aside after a celebrated 31 year tenure. He will remain active in local music education, repatriating his energy to students and community programs as he ends his role guiding the KU symphonic band. His son Robert Jr. collaborated on a farewell piece.
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Death penalty errors and the case of Ray Krone
Leonard Pitts Jr argues that capital punishment is flawed by judicial errors and false convictions. He cites Ray Krone, exonerated by DNA, and notes high exoneration rates. The piece urges replacing the death penalty with life without parole to avoid irreversible mistakes.
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Miami Herald
East Side Growth Noted by City Assessor in 1902
The Lawrence Journal reports City Assessor S J Churchill finished assessing real estate in the third and fourth wards. He notes great improvements with about four fifths of houses painted and around forty new homes built. He credits his policy against raising assessments for repairs and highlights rising lot values and dense development in east and west Lawrence.
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East Lawrence
Watkins Community Museum
Public Forum Letters Raise Moral Questions and Community Debate
A reader recalls a third grade teacher handling a stolen bracelet without public humiliation and contrasts it with harsher modern reactions. Other letters urge youth activity options and defend open planning commission processes while condemning anti Semitic rhetoric and urging education.
Correction: Hoopes Letter Fixes Public Forum Date
A corrected Public Forum letter from John Hoopes clarifies the referenced attack against Israel. The five Arab nations cited by Hoopes occurred in 1973, not the originally stated date.
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