Plan 95 faces test as Target store eyed for South Lawrence
Nieder Acres residents push to sell homes to avoid costly sewer and water upgrades for annexation while planners weigh a zoning change that would align with nearby retail like Target. Downtown business leaders urge planning before zoning, arguing plans must adapt as South Iowa Street growth and resident wishes shift the city’s development path.
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South Lawrence
Lawrence-Douglas County
Target Department Stores
Neider Acres
Iowa Street
Nieder Acres
Target
South
Iowa
Lawrence
Public plea to bring home missing Kansas airman
A letter to the editor criticizes President Clinton for misnaming MIAs at the Vietnam Memorial and recalls David Hrdlicka, a Kansas Air National Guard member shot down in Laos. Hrdlicka’s widow Carol waits in Wichita as brother Leo Hrdlicka plans a Lawrence stop with a banner urging the president to bring them home.
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Clinton
Vietnam
Washington
Bill Clinton
Hope
Ark
Laos
Pathet Lao
Sam Neua
Hrdlicka
Carol
Wichita
Kansas
Leo Hrdlicka
David
Lawrence
Michael Caron
Journal World staff and postal details listed
A reader notices the Journal World staff roles including editor Dolph Simons and general manager Ralph Gage. The snippet also lists editorial positions, operations management, and a USPS second class postage notice with Lawrence, Kansas mailing details.
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Journal- World
Dolph C. Simonett
Ralph Gage
Gene Armstrong
Oivertiging
Robert Nordyke
Caroline Trowbridge
Ann Gardner
Dolph Simons
Donna Wiley
Menace II Society exposes violence in modern America
The Hughes brothers deliver a stark film about intergenerational violence set in urban Los Angeles. Caine's doomed arc, a mother’s overdosed death, and a father who kills shape a brutal vigil on a society where violence seems inescapable. Critics debate its therapeutic value and social impact.
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Washington
Allen Hughes
Caine
Hughes Brothers
Pomona
Los Angeles
Tyger Williams
Goodfellas
New York
America
Leroy O’shield
Chicago
West Side 15Th Police District
HBO
Assay
O’shield
Somalia
Richard Price
U.S
Macedonia
Cloning Voices History From Dinosaurs To Presidents
A column ponders cloning, noting DNA from a 120 to 135 million year old weevil cannot yield dinosaurs. It imagines cloning famous figures like Madison, Roosevelt, Truman, and Lennon for educational or societal uses, then grills the ethics and plausibility with cultural humor.
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Waco
Tex
Louisiana
James Madison
Pat Robertson
Warren Court
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Truman
Michael Jordan
Will Rogers
John Lennon
Ed Sullivan
Elvis
World News
Amelia Earhart
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
Huck Finn
Malcolm X
Knute Rockne
Rockne
Charles Darwin
Darwin
Clinton food fight ends with hot meal lesson
The June 7 Newsweek item recalls ABC White House correspondent Brit Hume’s upset over cold breakfast on a press plane during Travelgate. Clinton’s Ginsburg nomination sparred with Hume, prompting a sharp exchange. The piece argues the Clinton-media feud shows wariness on both sides and ends with the quip that reporters should start the day with a hot meal.
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Brit Hume
Newsweek Magazine
ABC White
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court
Hume
Guinier
Breyer
Ginsburg
Clinton
White House
Bush
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Dolph Simona Sr
the World Company
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United States
Lawrance
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulationa
Associated Prose
Journal-World
F.O. Box
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George Will
Brazil
Babe Ruth
By Bill Thompson
Fort Worth
Star-Telegram
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