Editorial scoffs at lawmakers over one-block winter walk
An editorial mocks Kansas House leaders for worrying about 70 members moving to the Docking State Office Building during Capitol renovations. It taunts lawmakers for fearing a short outdoor walk in winter and calls for “pioneer spirit” while praising the state’s hardy ancestors and resilience. It underscores the basic discomfort as a trivial challenge for the upcoming session.
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House
Docking
Capitol
Kansas
Kansas House
Lawrence Humane Society Steps Up For 187 Seized Pets
Miami County officials seized 112 dogs and 75 cats from a rural residence and turned them over to the Lawrence Humane Society. Staff worked through the night caring for the animals, many in rough shape, with cats mostly sick and dogs facing mange. The shelter, already home to 720 animals, appeals for donations of food, supplies, and money to meet this winter influx.
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Miami County
Humane Society
Midge Grinstead
Kansas
First Innocent Known to Die Under Death Penalty
Leonard Pitts Jr. reflects on capital punishment and the possibility of executing an innocent person, citing Ruben Cantu’s 1993 death and the broader moral cost. He argues the system hides flaws behind a fiction that errors do not happen and warns a future case may reveal an undeniable miscarriage of justice.
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Supreme Court
North Carolina
Kenneth Boyd
The
Houston Chronicle
Texas
Ruben Cantu
Cantu
San Antonio
Sam Millsap Jr
the Chronicle
Bill Ewell
Leonard Pitts Jr
Miami Herald
State sales tax proposal aims to cut school property taxes
Lawrence officials back a 1981 Kansas Legislature plan to shift school funding from property taxes to sales taxes. Kansans would pay an extra $2 per $100 of purchases to reduce property taxes for public schools. Also notes football receipts from 1905 Kansas Missouri game and a Kansas Academy of Science meeting in Lawrence.
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Kansas
Lawrence Daily World
Universities of
Missouri
Kansas City
Kansas Academy of Science
Early ruling may have eased abortion battle
Washington column notes Henry Friendly, a noted judge who died in 1986, did not join a pre Roe opinion that could have slowed Roe v Wade. It argues his stance might have protected democratic debate by delaying Supreme Court intervention on abortion policy.
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Henry J. Friendly
Supreme Court
A. Raymond Randolph
U.S. Court of Appeals
D.C
Federalist Society
Friendly
Court of Appeals
2Nd Circuit
New York
Connecticut
University of Alabama Law
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Mootaa
U.S
New York Times
Roe
Randolph
John Stuart Mill
Mill
Sam Alito
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