Timing drives Lawrence bond votes for school and arts center
The Lawrence school board delaying a second high school bond and arts center delaying a 3.5 million expansion vote reflect concerns over property tax shocks from reappraisal. Officials worry voters will reject tax increases before they understand reappraisal effects and legislative relief. Delays may extend to November or later to avoid ballot crowding and tax fatigue.
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Lawrence School Board
Lawrence Arts Center
Lawrence
Arts Center
Kansas
Health coverage for domestic partners sparks employer concerns
Health care costs rise as courts and cities widen the legal notion of family to include cohabiting partners and their dependents. Employers worry about insuring live-in partners or relatives with costly illnesses, while cities like Seattle and San Francisco weigh extending benefits to domestic partners for public and private workers.
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New York
Edward I. Koch
New York City
New York State Supreme Court
Board of Education
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington
Los Angeles
Madison
Wis
KU executive vice chancellor to leave post
Old home town Del Shankel, Kansas University executive vice chancellor, announced he would leave his post June 30. Chancellor Archie Dykes hoped to persuade him to stay, but Shankel preferred teaching and full-time microbiology research, a KU veteran since 1959.
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Chie Dykes
Shankel
Lawrence
Lawrence- Douglas County
Lawrence School Board
Ecology and ethics clash over fashionable activism and fur protests
A reflective critique of middle class eco-activism, arguing that outdoor protests and celebrity-backed moralizing reveal indulgent idealism. The piece weighs fur campaigns, wildlife protection, and the paradoxes of preserving nature versus feeding human needs, questioning modern ecological zeal.
Letters to the editor confront retail costs and city policy
In a public forum, Fred R. Whitehead Jr. questions Lawrence taxes and Progress Plan 95, arguing Lawrence shopping costs more than Topeka and urging removal of Turnipseed Coalition influence while calling for broader retail opportunity. Betty Dutton of LINK thanks Lawrence groups for meals and support, noting ongoing hunger amid freezing funds and continued community aid.
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Journal-World
Topeka
Lawrence
Schumm
Kansas
East Seventh
East Lawrence
Turnipseed Coalition
City Hall
Fred R. Whitehead Jr
Bonanza St
Link
Betty Dutton
Today in History December 9 1989 recap
Today in history notes December 9 marks 1907 first sale of Christmas seals in Wilmington Delaware to fund tuberculosis efforts. Also mentions Milton's birth in 1608 and Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade published in 1854. Other items include a 1884 patent for ball bearing roller skate and political events in 1940 1941 1958 and 1965.
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Del
John Milton
London
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Light Brigade
England
Levant M. Richardson
Chicago
North
Africa
China
Japan
Germany
Italy
Robert H.W. Welch Jr
Indianapolis
John Birch Society
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Supreme Soviet
Elitism and ignorance in American education tale
A writer laments widespread educational gaps that render Balkan Ambler Nixon and Gladstone obscure terms, while pop culture like Star Trek elevates Vulcan knowledge. He recalls references to the Balkan problem and Eric Ambler, noting readers' likely unfamiliarity, and cautions against elitist labeling amid politics and liberalism debates.
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Eric Ambler
William Ewart Gladstone
William E. Gladstone
Fred Flintstone
Gladstone
Richard Nixon
Education Front
United States
Nixon
Massachusetts
Europe
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