Interesting downtown plan for 900 block of New Hampshire
A local developer proposes a $5 million Berkeley Plaza project with 15 apartments and a dozen shops in downtown Lawrence. The plan includes rooftop and underground parking, a city funded lot, and mixed use aims while urging careful evaluation of costs and benefits before a $1.8 million city contribution.
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Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Public Library
Salvation Army
Notable milestones across history from 1634 to 1937
A sequence of events marks key moments: Roger Williams and wife arrive in Boston in 1634, Sweden recognizes U S independence in 1783, Phoenix is incorporated in 1881, Verdi premieres Otello at La Scala in 1887, Indiana backs a circle area and pi value in 1897 but Senate blocks it, 1917 sees anti Asian immigration law and Mexico adopts its constitution, and 1937 F D Roosevelt proposes adding Supreme Court justices amid charges of court packing.
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Journal World staff credits and postal info line
The Journal World lists its editorial staff and department editors Roger Verdon John Taylor Ann Gardner Tom Fisher along with circulation and postmaster address details and AP and ABC memberships for Lawrence Kansas publication operations.
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Bill Snead
Depry
Roger Verdon
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Gore style hides fervor in digital earth visions
Vice President Al Gore champions Digital Earth a virtual global view and simulations. He mimics applause during a Cleveland empowerment zone ceremony and his speaking style blends classroom pedant delivery with deep knowledge, though public images remain robot-like to many voters.
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Robert Squier
Housing and Urban Development
Andrew Cuomo
Mike White
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Illi
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Air Force 2
Use surplus to build security and avoid risky deficits
The author critiques hurried plans to spend a federal budget surplus, warning that overconfident expansion masks vulnerability to shocks from Asia and a downturn. They call for prudent use as temporary stimulus or fiscal discipline, not tax cuts or Social Security raids, to strengthen resilience for the next downturn.
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Asia
Ken
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Congress
Wave plan favored in Lawrence school boundary debate
A reader Letter to The Journal-World argues the Wave option offers a balanced approach to redrawing Lawrence school boundaries. It notes all plans bus students eastward and use leapfrog busing, but says Wave would move the fewest children, with 8 from Quail Run to Centennial in 1998 99 and 21 more in 1999 2000, and urges addressing west side housing pressures now.
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Wakarusa
Quail Run
Sunflower
Laura Bennetts
David Smith
Stone Meadows Dr
Kansas Legislature Defeat Ends Local Legion Fund Drive
Old Home Town IL notes the Kansas Legislature rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize bingo for the April ballot, a move that could end the Dorsey Liberty American Legion Post No. 1 fund raising in Lawrence. Talks arose about closing the post and selling the building.
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University convocation planned to unify faculty and students
The Lawrence Journal reports a Kansas University council meeting on February 5 1898 deciding to test convocation gatherings. The mass meetings aim to increase acquaintance between students and faculty and to boost involvement in university affairs, a feature seen in other schools’ campus life. Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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