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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 2000
Page
4
Lynn Bretz the Interim director of university relations confirms drinking fountains are available at Memorial Stadium. The first level concourse has eight fountains while the third level west side and the third level east side each have two fountains.
Call Sound Off at 832-7297 to hear a prompt inviting listeners to leave their questions. The message instructs dialing the number to participate and submit a query via voicemail.
Levi Chronister examines the question of whether soft money donations should be banned, weighing arguments about political influence, disclosure, and campaign finance reform. The piece weighs potential impacts on parties, donors, and donors’ ability to aid campaigns.
Robyn Tackett of Lawrence argues soft money risks corruption and urges checks on candidate funding, while opposing view stresses voter choice in donations to groups before politicians. The exchange highlights differing opinions on campaign finance and transparency.
This datebook listing advances a full day of community happenings in Lawrence and Douglas County. Highlights include health services, a free Brown Bag Concert, a library program, a care and employment law seminar in Kansas City, a farmers market, and advisory and gallery talks. Also notes a weekend Kansas Pilots Association gathering with air demonstrations and flyovers at Lawrence Airport.
A Missouri man, Tom Smith of St. Joseph, was trapped for hours in a grain silo near Walcott by shifting soybeans and freed with minor injuries. Firefighters built a box and used a wooden door to halt the flow. He was treated and released from Kansas University Medical Center after the 10:30 a.m. incident and subsequent rescue.
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to work with Trinity Lutheran Church at 1245 N.H. to ease parking at the county courthouse and Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The plan targets juror parking on jurors’ first day, when 50 to 100 residents arrive monthly, asking church officials to allow jurors to use their lot on these days.
Police say a Lawrence 17-year-old reported kidnapped appears not in danger though officers have not located him. Detailing contact with witnesses, they describe a red Buick with Oklahoma plates and three unidentified men. The boy allegedly forced into the car before contact with police.
KU officials reported spray paint damage on a wall between 5 p.m Sunday and 7:30 a.m Monday at the Kansas Union causing about 50. Fire medical crews also responded to multiple calls including a warming table fire at Taco Bell and several medical emergencies. A 26-year-old Lawrence woman reported a man in a dark ski mask approached her car early Wednesday in the Quail Creek Drive area. Births noted Patricia and Darren Skelton welcomed a son in McLouth. a correction issued about an athletics investigation at KU involving Barbara Ballard.
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