Lawrence items mix mail routes, holidays, babies and coins
Lawrence Daily Journal segment notes Bowersock push for a rural mail delivery route from Lawrence and confirms a Kansas University Christmas holiday start on December 22. It highlights Miss Frances I Bliss as a lone woman in engineering, a free cabinet photo offer for babies, Quincy school pupils funding Mercy Hospital gifts, and mayoral stance on mint vending machines seen as gambling devices. A Dawes letter about a dime story at the White House closes the column.
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Anger over insurers and a killer’s motive revealed
Froma Harrop recounts a brutal predawn murder in Manhattan tied to UnitedHealth Group, exposing the insurer delay deny defend tactics that delayed cancer treatment for her husband. She notes executives’ large payouts and warns about Project 2025’s impact on ACA insurers and Medicare Advantage, urging awareness of preexisting conditions protections.
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Brian Thompson
Rutgers University Law
Jay Feinman
UnitedHealth
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Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade Thanks Editors
Public note from Marty Kennedy, president of Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade Inc. thanking the editor and supporters. Praises the Lawrence Police Department, Parks and Recreation, Douglas County Fairgrounds staff, Shawnee County Sheriff's Mounted Posse, and regional outriders for safety and coordination. Announces the 32nd parade on Saturday December 6 2025 at 11 a.m. and invites patrons to support sponsors listed at lawrencechristmasparade.org.
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Marty Kennedy
Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade Inc
Accountability and taxation drive local anger in Kansas
Letters urge democratic accountability as residents cite 24.5 percent tax increases and a county administrator salary rise to 255,091. They urge cutting taxes and shrinking government. A second letter discusses the UnitedHealthcare executive murder and questions civil justice remedies and insurance denials, noting potential corporate influence and patient harm.
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United Healthcare
William Skepnek
Lawrence
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