Traffic cameras eyed for Lawrence intersections
Lawrence city commissioners will study the cost and feasibility of installing traffic light cameras to photograph red light runs. The system would reduce guesswork, increase enforcement, and potentially improve safety at key intersections such as 23rd and Iowa and Tennessee and Ninth, with Fort Collins reports suggesting fines could cover equipment.
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Lawrence
Lawrence City
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Iowa
Tennessee
Ninth Streets
Journal-World
Fort Collins
Colo
History highlights from June 30 across years
On June 30 events include the 26th Amendment ratified in 1971, Ohio becoming the 38th state to approve lowering the voting age to 18. In 1921 Harding appointed Taft as chief justice. In 1936 Gone with the Wind was published. In 1971 Soyuz XI cosmonauts died after reentry.
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Ohio
Harding
Taft
United States
Margaret Mitchell
New York
Earth
Five Flemming fellows lift spirits of a wary nation
Washington Post columnist David Broder profiles five young Flemming fellows, lawmakers from Illinois Vermont Montana South Carolina and Minnesota. They are diverse, pragmatic, and reform-minded, pushing bipartisan bills despite lobbyist influence and hostile perceptions of legislatures. Their work exemplifies service over partisanship.
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Washington
Linda Tripp
Flemming
Arthur S. Flemming
Franklin Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Center For Policy Alternatives
Linda Tarr-Whelan
Wes Watkins
Elizabeth Coulson
Chicago
Deanna Wiener
Minneapolis
Steve Doherty
Montana
Matt Dunne
Vermont
Ilinois House
Mike Madigan
Coulson
Madigan
Wiener
Pinckney
David Broder
Washington Post Writers Group
Adults repeat tobacco battles echoing past reformers
Cal Thomas notes history shows adults struggle to curb teen smoking. From Lucy Page Gaston’s early 1900s anti-cigarette campaigns to modern political efforts by Clinton, Koop, and McCain, prohibition era lessons imply regulatory attempts often backfire. The piece argues kids may resist anti smoking rhetoric similarly to past generations and warns history may repeat itself.
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Congress
Clinton
Bill Clinton
C. Everett Koop
John McCain
Chicago
Lucy Page Gaston
Anti-Cigarette League of America
Gaston
New York City
Christian Coalition
Russia
Warren Harding
Harding
Sobel
National Anti-Cigarette League
Calvin Coolidge
Adolph Busch
Coolidge
New York Times
Indiana
the Times
Cal Thomas
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Journal-Worp personnel credits line
The document lists staff roles at Journal-Wor.p including Deputy Editor Bill Snead News Editor Ann Gardner Editorial Page editor Tom Fisher and Advertising Manager Roger Verdon plus periodical mailing and AP and ABC memberships indicating standard newspaper masthead details.
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Bill Snead
Roger Verdon
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Corralling Campaign Finance Debate in public forum
In a June 13 opinion piece the writer supports publishing all political donors and taxpayer funded campaigns, while Terzian favors the status quo. The letter argues on ballot access, public funding, and using airwaves as a public asset to provide free time for candidates.
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Terzian
Washington
Congress
FCC
Mark Larson
Kansas Supreme Court Reappoints Raymond Rice to Board
In 1958 the Kansas Supreme Court reappointed Raymond Rice of Lawrence to the state board of law examiners, renewing his post on the regulatory panel.
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Kansas Supreme Court
Raymond Rice
Lawrence
State Board of Law Examiners
Nerve and gall on bicycles roping streets in 1898
The Lawrence Journal on June 30 1898 laments bicycle riders riding on the wrong side, sounding gongs and forcing teams off the road. It notes no ordinance covers such behavior and questions the sufficiency of law without common sense and decency. Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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Lawrence Journal
Watkins Community Museum
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