Editorial urges more candidates for Lawrence city posts
With the Jan 22 filing deadline near, candidates are filing for the Lawrence City Commission and the Lawrence school board. Five candidates reportedly seek three commission seats, including incumbent Mike Amyx, while the school board race shows less activity with incumbents Bob Byers and Vanessa Sanborn likely seeking re election. The editorial praises those stepping up, notes concerns about a tense political climate, and argues residents should support capable, independent local leaders who will review budgets and staff rather than rubber stamp administration.
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Lawrence School Board
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Mike Amyx
School Board
Bob Byers
Vanessa Sanborn
Not all women share the same political page in Senate mix
A column argues that media praise for female senators masks a double standard by party and ideology. It cites Barbara Mikulski and Barbara Boxer, contrasts Democrats and Republicans including Michele Bachmann, Susana Martinez, Lisa Murkowski, and Tim Scott, and questions how gender, race, and character shape political reception and leadership history. It concludes that ideology, not gender or race, drives attitudes toward lawmakers.
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Diane Sawyer
ABC
World News Tonight
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D-Md
Senate
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Calif
Michele Bachmann
R-Minn
Bachmann
Marcus
Tim Scott
South Carolina
Jim DeMint
Scott
NAACP
Claire McCaskill
D-Mo
McCaskill
Democratic National Committee
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-Fla
Cleopatra
Catherine the Great
Harriet Tubman
Bella Abzug
D-N.y
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher
Robbery probe at Douglas County Bank in Lawrence
Police investigate a December 30 robbery at the Douglas County Bank branch at 15th and Kasold. Sgt. Dan Affalter notes a small tan car with two occupants seen near the bank before the crime, with no injuries and an undisclosed cash amount stolen. Cold temps and a power outage affected area residents as Lawrence faced record low wind chills.
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Douglas County Bank
15Th and Kasold
Dan Affalter
Lawrence
Kansas Power and Light Co
Austin Stedham
19Th Street
East Lawrence
South Lawrence
Stedham
Hospital threat sparks rural Kansas Medicaid stance
A medical student writer urges Gov Brownback to accept ACA Medicaid expansion to protect rural Kansas hospitals from funding losses. Without expansion, federal reimbursements for uninsured care would vanish, risking hospital closures and deterring graduates from returning home to practice rural family medicine.
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Kansas
Public Forum Letters On Draft And Service In Nation
Lawrence readers discuss Medicaid expansion costs for rural areas and hospitals in Brownback era. Letter cites universal military training as a path to national unity, calls for reinstating the draft and notes journal policy on letters to the Public Forum.
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Journal-World
Anne Haehl
Hoeflich
U.S
F. Darleene Stone Overstreet
U.S. Army
Lawrence
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