Procrastinating filers rush to finish taxes at deadline
Local tax preparers called the day frantic as thousands race to file or extend. At 825 Mass, CPA Michael Hickman described the rush. The main Lawrence post office extends hours to midnight for 3,000 to 4,000 last minute filers, with postmarking available in lobby. A sixth annual Alfred Packer Memorial String Band Tax Night accompanies the nightly crunch beginning around 9:30 p.m. Other postmarking hours end after hours at Jayhawk Station. Local accountants report fully booked schedules with extensions handled in late hours.
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Mass
Lawrence
Bill Reynolds
Reynolds
Alfred Packer
Jayhawk Station
W. 23Rd
Lawrence board weighs state plan and budget cuts
The Lawrence school board heard proposals to expand junior high athletics and add robotics and districtwide tech use but cannot commit funds without a state finance plan. State aid f operational funds dropped by 2.6 million, delaying decisions. See School, page 9A.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Harriet Shaffer
Sanctions begin Libya's isolation
UN sanctions on Libya took effect targeting air links and arms sales to pressure Col. Muammar Gaddafi to surrender suspects in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Flights were canceled, Libyan diplomats expelled, and other nations joined the isolation, with ferries to Malta remaining as earlier links.
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Libya
U.N
Muammar Gaddafi
Pan Am
Gaddafi
Allah
British Broadcasting Corp
Italy
Switzerland
Timothy
U.N. Security Council
Malta
City and county move to adopt loop road plan around Lawrence
Lawrence city commissioners signaled progress on a circumferential roadway with the Douglas County plan to acquire land for the South Lawrence Trafficway right of way. The pair will adopt the Eastern Parkway route and advance hearings while noting future review if commissions are rearranged. The proposed loop includes the parkway, trafficway and U.S. Highway 40 improvements, spanning from Noria Road to Seventh Street near the Santa Fe depot.
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Lawrence
Douglas County Commission
South Lawrence
Schumm
Noria Road
Santa Fe
Highth Street
Seventh Street
Poll finds trust waning in Clinton and Congress
An Associated Press survey of 1,002 adults conducted April 8–12 shows 20 percent distrust Bill Clinton’s honesty as president, with trust in Congress even lower. The poll, noting a 3-point margin, finds 49 percent mostly trusting Bush and 18 percent' most trust Clinton.
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Associated Press
Bill Clinton
Congress
ICR
Media
Bush
Clinton
Arkansas
New York State
Packer Plastics Eyes Hungary Market
Lawrence based Packer Plastics founder Jim Schwartzburg targets Central Europe with Hungary as a ready market for plastic containers and housewares. Three full cargo containers have been sent this year and were well received by Hungarian consumers, per Schwartzburg and corroborated by Ivan Novak of See Plastics.
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Packer Plastics
Europe
Jim Schwartzburg
Hungary
Packer
Schwartzburg
Ivan Novak
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