New Year Reflections on Lawrence 1998 in Review
A look back at Lawrence's year 1998 highlights including Free State High School's first graduates and its first female superintendent Kathleen Williams. Kansas University marks 100 years with Wilt Chamberlain's visit, local bonds for a new elementary school, new retail openings, and ongoing South Lawrence Trafficway debates. The piece notes voter gains, downtown growth efforts, and a hopeful turn into 1999 despite lingering issues like parking, infrastructure, and regional development.
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Clinton
Lawrence
Free State High School
Kathleen Williams
Kansas University
Wilt Chamberlain
Kansas
Bill Graves
David Miller
Piney
Iowa Street
Lawrence Arts Center
Barteldes Seed Co
New Hampshire
South Lawrence
Today in History Highlights From Lincoln to New York
On January 1 1863 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebel areas. In 1892 Ellis Island opened as New Yorks immigrant station. In 1898 New York City merged five boroughs and in 1901 Australia became a commonwealth.
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Ellis Island
New York
Manhattan
the Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Staten Island
New Yorkty
Commonwealth of Australia
Americans redefine news amid shifting political passions
George Will argues contemporary politics heightens petty passions as Washington shrinks in influence. He notes Clinton’s limited largeness, rising self governing behavior, and a media landscape fragmenting audiences. Americans seek news through cable, internet, and local sources, reducing national newspaper readership.
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Washington
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Coolidge
New York
American Enterprise Magazine
ABC
CBS
NBC
Fox
Boston Globe
Boston
The
Globe
Boston Herald
Vaudeyvillians
George Will
Washington Post Writers Group
Moral decline sparks call for bottom-up virtue shift
Cal Thomas argues moral rot comes from citizens not leaders. A Maryland house of prostitution in Gaithersburg shows indifference as neighbors ignore early signs until parking hints reveal the issue. Theater owner David Crenshaw loses profits after banning then reinstating R-rated films, illustrating public demand for "family values" without willingness to support virtue. The piece cites a Washington Post series noting aging permissiveness and a need for clergy to spur individual ethical choices, not government action.
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Washington, D.C
Gaithersburg
Caroline Ripa
Mike Herbert
The
Madar
Montgomery County
White House
South Carolina
Virtue
David Crenshaw
Spartanburg
Family Values
Crenshaw
Washington Post
Don Eberly
Civil Society Project
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
America
Eberly
Alan Wolfe
Boston University
Wolfe
Cal Thomas
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Local Newspaper Masthead with Editorial Leadership
The fragment lists staff roles including Bill Snead deputy editor and editors Roger Verdon Marraguyy John Taylor Ann Gardner and Tom Fisher plus the postmaster address and notice of periodicals postage at Lawrence Kansas. It also notes AB Bureau and AP membership.
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Bill Snead
Roger Verdon
Marraguyy
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Compassion fatigue hides lack of information in media
Louisa Stannow of Doctors Without Borders argues that Americans do not lack compassion but are underinformed about crises such as Sudan. She cites local supporters in California reacting to famine coverage, urging sustained newsroom responsibility and broader international reporting beyond Clinton and space stories.
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Clinton
Sen
John Glenn
Outer Space
Africa
Doctors Without Borders
Ajiep
Sudan
Los Angeles
Abdul
Redlands University
Tiffany
Compton
Max
Hawthorne
Earth
Glenn
United States
Louisa Stannow
Archies Dykes KU chancellor and Docking bank leader noted
A 1973 review highlights a solid year focused on people over events. Archie Dykes debuts as Kansas University chancellor while Arkansas City banker Robert Docking rises to president and chairman of Union State Bank. Docking would later serve four two year terms as Kansas governor.
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Journal-World Review
Archie Dykes
New Kansas University
Arkansas City
Robert Docking
Lawrence
Union State Bank
Docking
Kansas
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Ralph Gage
Dolph Simons Jil
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
Chris Boarman
Chvidation
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
By Louisa Stannow
Los Angeles Times
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