KU Medical Center funding clash highlights communication gaps
An editorial notes the failed push for a 75 million KUMC health education building. It criticizes state legislators and KU officials for miscommunication and misperceptions over space use data, urging cooperation and first hand facility visits to ensure future budget decisions are fact based.
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Kansas University Medical Center
KUMC
Sam Brownback
Kansas
Tom Arpke
R-Salina
Kansas Board of Regents
Arpke
Senate
Regents
Medical Center
3-D printing sparks a new industrial revolution
Andres Oppenheimer analyzes how desktop 3-D printers, once niche, could reshape economies by enabling local production of goods from digital designs. He cites CEO Abraham Reichental of 3-D Systems and experts like Vivek Wadhwa, noting gains in aerospace and medicine, evolving to consumer goods, and implications for China, Mexico, and Latin America as manufacturing shifts toward domestic, design exports.
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Miami
Abraham Reichental
NASA
Reichental
China
Mexico
Vivek Wadhwa
Singularity University
Duke University
U.S
Latin America
Wadhwa
Andres Oppenheimer
The
Miami Herald
Old Home Town from the Lawernce Daily Journal World July 9 1913
The New York American reports Justice of the Peace Joseph A Headley of Milltown New Jersey found what seems to be the original draft of the Lecompton constitution of Kansas among papers from an uncle in Kansas. The Lecompton constitution was Kansas first slaveholding law.
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Lawrence Daily Journal-World
New York American
Kansas
Joseph A. Headley
Milltown
N.J
Lecompton
DCF seeks new office space amid aging building concerns
Janice Friedman of Lawrence welcomes state action to relocate the Department for Children and Families from a deteriorating, inadequate facility. She notes one current building sits empty and staff reductions already shifted to other offices. She also mentions privatizing child support services and questions the scope of consolidating operations.
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Department For Children and Families
Theresa Freed
DCF
Janice Friedman
Lawrence
Public Forum Voices City Frustration Over Law Ambiguities
Marc Briand voices concern that the city’s handling of legal documents and projects erodes trust and unity. He criticizes selective enforcement, calls for competitive bidding on the Rock Chalk project, and opposes leaving the city to escape noise and conflict. Public approval is urged for clearer governance.
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Amyx
Fireworks Nightmare in North Lawrence This Week
A North Lawrence resident reports a week of illegal fireworks noise and debris disrupting daily life. The writer notes sleepless nights through July 6 and questions why authorities have not intervened, pointing to widespread debris on streets as evidence of ongoing activity.
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North Lawrence
Attorney questions city's authority to no bid Rock Chalk Park
Public trust voice cites Mike Amyx remarks from 1984 Charter Ordinance vote as example of bypassing bidding. He recalls early support for 1994 sales tax to boost public health services, now linked to funding a $25 million sports complex and Letters Policy details.
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Rock Chalk Park
Journal-World
Mike Amyx
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