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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1996
Page
6
The budget talks feature smaller increases rather than cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Clinton accuses Republicans of fear tactics while Republicans say their plan would raise spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and education over seven years but not as much as Clinton would. The president has waffled on welfare reform and spending, basing positions on polls rather than steady leadership.
Yale University faces disciplinary action for graduate teaching assistants withholding grades in a bid to unionize. About 87 graduate students reportedly held back grades after fall term, with roughly 240 not submitting marks. Protests followed, and administrators argue TA status as students limits strike rights. Students risk delayed degrees and job interviews amid calls for better pay and working conditions.
The record recalls Martin Luther King Jr. birth in 1929 in Atlanta, Elizabeth I crownings in 1559, Notre Dame charter in 1844, Nast’s donkey debut in 1870, Paderewski premier in 1919, Pentagon completion in 1943, first Super Bowl in 1967, Nixon North Vietnam pause in 1973, and Sara Jane Moore’s 1976 life sentence for an assassination attempt.
The document lists the Lawrence Kansas Journal-World masthead with editors such as Dolph C. Simons Jr. and Ann Gardner, plus managers and department heads including Ralph Gage, Bill Snead, Tom Fisher, Mark Chaney, and Dan Simons. It notes the postal address for changes, USPS details, and bureau memberships.
Attorney James W. Paddock president of the Lawrence district school board for three years will not seek re election in the spring. He completes six years on the board as final population counts from the U S Census Bureau show Lawrence at 45698 and Douglas County at 57932. Baldwin 2520 Eudora 1071 Lecompton 434. American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps selling flags house to house to stock banners for town residents. An 1896 note in the Lawrence World reported county revenues rising as the county will receive two percent interest on its densits instead of one, about 1400 per year in county benefit.
The piece compares Steve Forbes to James Gordon Bennett in bold showmanship and uses his funded presidential bid to discuss political advertising. It weighs advertising’s role in democracy, argues for its informational value, notes potential diminishing returns, and and highlights Forbes’s focus on term limits and a flat tax while acknowledging cultural resistance and market risks.
The piece imagines 1996 candidates Clinton Gramm Buchanan Forbes and Dole reacting to a major Washington blizzard. It lampoons policy responses from plowing lanes to federal aid and even office humor, with each figure proposing bold, controversial moves and sharp one liners.
In a public forum letter Victor and Mrs. Lichteig criticize county commissioners Louie McElhaney and Jim Chappell for overstepping zoning roles. They insist the 1972 law limits private roads to three building sites and urge adherence, transparency, and accountability at meetings while urging ranchers to attend.
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