Workforce Center to relocate to new tech campus in Lawrence
The Lawrence Workforce Center will move from South Iowa Street to space at the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center near 31st and Haskell. The nonprofit Heartland Works runs the center, offering job search help, resume improvement, counseling, and career training. The move consolidates services with the technical center, easing access for job seekers and employers hosting job fairs.
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Haskell
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Technical Training Center
Hugh Carter
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
26Th
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First Watch
David Brennan
Brennan
Lawrence
Heartland Works
AmeriCorps member promotes MLK equality event
Alisha Fisher-Afrian American gay Deep South native. United Way AmeriCorps member at Lawrence Douglas County Health Department joins AmeriCorps team with United Way and Lawrence Public Library for MLK Day events. Day includes community service and group discussions on equality. Register at volunteer douglascounty org.
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Deep South
Martin Luther King Jr
Fisher
United Way AmeriCorps
Lawrence- Douglas County
United Way
Lawrence Public Library
Douglascounty. Org
Baton Rouge
Lawrence
Kansas University
Extradition hearing date for homicide suspect unclear
Washington County law enforcement officials in Mississippi say they do not know when the extradition hearing for 18 year old Rontarus Washington Jr. may take place after his Thursday arrest on suspicion of first degree murder in the death of 19 year old Lawrence woman Justin a Altamirano Mosso. Washington lived two doors down from the apartment where Altamirano Mosso was found Nov 9 and left Lawrence for Greenville Mississippi after the crime occurred. Law rence Police Department spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley noted the district attorney accuses Washington of killing Altamirano Mosso on Nov 7.
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Lawrence
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Greenville
Trent McKinley
Altamirano Mosso
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Cheryl Wright
Kunard
McKinley
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Journal- World
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Mississippi
SATURDAY COLUMN ON TERRORISM COURSE AHEAD OF ITS TIME
The piece notes global terrorism as a rising threat and recalls a 1971 KU course by Felix Moos Ron Olin and Maynard Shelly titled Violence Aggression and Terrorism in the Modern World. It highlights the course popularity and views it as prescient before 9 11.
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Felix Moos
Ron Olin
Maynard Shelly
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Olin
Shelly
Mount Oread
Lessons Not Learned on Terrorism Lessons Not Learned
Commentary on university course history and faculty Moos Olin Shelly with terrorism study. Notes Moos lectures at war colleges and founded programs guiding intelligence personnel. Questions U S strategy to defeat extremism and the value of cultural knowledge in security.
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