Painful pavement plans for Lawrence streets this year
Editorial notes Lawrence city commission will hear a pavement management plan costing 4.38 million dollars to rebuild and repair major routes including Iowa Street Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive. The program aims to raise street condition from 31.5 percent poor in 2005 to 19.5 percent by completion with multiple intersections and overlays on tap. Drivers should expect detours and delays but the payoff is better roads and crosswalks once finished.
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Tennessee
George Williams
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Haskell
Lawerace Street
Chavez Cuba ties spark questions amid health crisis
Venezuela ties to Cuba raise eyebrows as Hugo Chavez remains hospitalized in Cuba. Officials allegedly forge a Havana Pact backing Vice President Nicolas Maduro while Chavez’s health and political future hinge on the Caribbean island.
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Cuba
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Caribbean
Fidel Castro
Brazil
Nicolas Maduro
Raul Castro
Ramiro Valdes
Havana
Maduro
Caracas
Venezuela
Danilo Arbilla
Chavez Cuba ties deepen as Venezuela leans on Havana
Andres Oppenheimer argues Venezuela relies on Cuba for security and political guidance. He notes Chavez's closeness to Castro since 1994, Cuban guards and engineers, and Havana's influence over Venezuela's oil, ports, and intelligence. He warns dependence may wane if oil prices stay low.
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Luis Miquilena
Castro
Miquilena
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Havana
Venezuela
Castro Brothers
Pacto de la Habana
Raul Castro
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States
Chile
Andres Oppenheimer
Latin America
The
Miami Herald
Old Home Town a mix of street plans and rights debate
Lawrence city commissioners prepared to discuss resurfacing Seventh Street as part of an Eastern parkway plan linking downtown to Kansas Highway 10 while a proposed amendment to the Human Rights ordinance faced sharp letters about homosexuality and AIDS. A Social Security office was set to open by Jan 1, 1974, with eight to ten staff from Topeka, and the city eyed spending 2500 to install grassy ceramic medians at 15th and Iowa and 19th and Iowa, with total cost around 5000 of which half would be funded federally.
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Lawrence
Seventh Street
New Hampshire
New York
Kansas Highway 10
Journal-World
Social Security Administration
Elmer Iske
Topeka
Larry Winn
James B. Pearson
Bob Dole
Iske
15Th
Iowa
19Th
Who’s lying in Washington on defense budget cuts
The letter criticizes the administration for alleged deceit over defense budget cuts and urges impeachment. It contrasts the secretary of defense’s warning of catastrophe with a new appointee claiming bloated spending. The writer references revolution and political frustration. It then shifts to nursing home costs and Rhode Island’s law paying family caregivers to keep elderly at home.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense
Washington
Ken Meyer
Lawrence
Rhode Island
Public housing and health care debate letter writer cites options
The letter writer in his 80s 90s discusses affordable public housing at Babcock Presbyterian Manor and Pioneer Ridge noting Babcock offers noon meals and proximity to Dillons. He contrasts Canadian European systems where the state funds medical care and hospitals are public and asks if Congress will pass a second health care law.
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Presbyterian Manor
Babcock
Brandon Woods
Pioneer Ridge
Dillons
United States
John A. Bond
Lawrence
Reinstating the draft is wrong says Craig Tucker
In a letter, Craig Tucker argues against a national draft, citing Vietnam and Iraq wars. He says patriotism should not be equated with war and asserts young Americans should not risk life for ill-justified conflicts. He urges trust in government before any compulsory service.
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Iraq
Craig Tucker
Lawrence
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