Tax cuts cited as causing state deficits in Kansas
Gov. Brownback backed tax cut proposal faces conference committee as forecasters predict deficits starting in 2015. Projection grows to 161 million by July 1, 2017, with earlier figures showing a 911 million gap over five years. Opponents urge slow progress while committee plans another meeting.
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Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas Legislative Research Department
Sen
Tom Holland
Baldwin City
Senate
Custodian earns honor among Lawrence district workers
Mike White, custodian at South Middle School, has over eight years with the Lawrence school district. His diligent maintenance work earns him a place among the district’s top honorees highlighted in Lawrence.
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Mike White
South Middle School
Lawrence
Development proposed along riverfront in North Lawrence
Mayor Bob Schumm comments on a riverfront project near Johnny's Tavern that could redefine downtown ambience. Merchants on Mass Street fear competition, while officials review the plan at tonight's City Commission meeting.
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Bob Schumm
North
Lawrence
City Commission
City to unify police into $30 million building plan
City commissioners discuss a proposal to merge the police department into a single new facility with an estimated cost of 30 million dollars. The plan aims to streamline operations and consolidate services in a central campus, pending votes and detailed design.
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Police Department
Tourism leader Judy Billings steered Lawrence through crises and growth
Judy Billings rose from part time secretary to director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau by 1982. Her tenure spanned eras from nuclear threat anxieties to Civil War era tourism, culminating in attracting film production to Lawrence as Hollywood producers sought locations. Local residents grappled with the bureau’s purpose while she guided the city’s tourism strategy through rapid change.
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Richard Gwin
Journal-World Photo
Judy Billings
Lawrence
Billings
Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau
Hollywood
Douglas County
Charles Jones
Retirement reception honors Judy Billings in Lawrence
Community leaders host a 4 to 6 p m reception for Judy Billings director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau at the Carnegie Building Ninth and Vermont streets The event celebrates her long service and mark in Lawrence culture connected to The Day After film legacy.
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Judy Billings
Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau
Carnegie Building
Ninth and
Vermont Streets
Ninth and New Hampshire hotel project still fails review
A multistory hotel and retail project at Ninth and New Hampshire was trimmed but still deemed too tall by the Historic Resources Commission. Key opponents and developers praised changes to reduce height yet the plan remains outside neighborhood guidelines, with an appeal path to the City Commission.
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Ninth and
New Hampshire
Historic Resources Commission
East Lawrence
Historic Resources
Michael Arp
Lawrence
Doug Compton
Mike Treanor
Rhode Island Street
Dan Watkins
Lawrence City Commission
Health disparities in Douglas County access to food and dental care
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department released a 38 page Community Health Assessment identifying inadequate access to nutritious foods and dental services among the top community health challenges. Data from 1 500 residents, online surveys, focus groups, and interviews, show transportation as a barrier to healthy eating and a lack of local resources like farmers markets and grocery stores in parts of Lawrence and Eudora. One in five residents did not see a dentist in the past year.
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Douglas County
Lawrence-Douglas County
Health Department
Dan Partridge
Eudora
East
Lawrence
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