Editorial on Eagle Bend Golf Losses in Lawrence
The city operated Eagle Bend Golf Course is losing revenue and may require cuts to services and expenses. The piece argues municipal courses rely on taxpayer subsidies, contrasts with private courses, and notes competition and winter limits. It questions how much residents will fund so called quality of life programs amid budget pressures.
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Eagle Bend
Alvamar Inc
Alvamar
Lawrence
Journal-World
City Hall
Ken Meyer
Len Susan Wagle
Philip Baringer
Hometown drama and a Nebraska defeat echoed in 1903 Kansas City
A Kansas City scene in 1903 recounts a wife chasing her husband and his companion after he was seen with another woman at the depot. A separate incident at a Nebraska baseball game ended with a student snatching a cap from a Nebraskan on the field as the team left. The Lawrence World dated May 16, 1903, notes the deplorable behavior toward visiting players.
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Kansas City
12Th
Main
Nebraska
Lawrence Daily World
Lawrence
Gary Hart Prompts Democratic Debate With Unconventional Ideas
Gary Hart addresses college audiences on topics like Darwinian determinism and Calvinistic predestination. He cites Jefferson’s duty and rationality and discusses selective delegation of sovereignty. Hart, notable for two White House runs, disrupted standard politics with a 1984 bid that surprised party leaders.
Gary Hart's second act finds him shaping a new role
David Shribman portrays Gary Hart now aged 66 as an elder statesman who never ran again but who crafts influence through ideas. Hart popularized homeland security and warned of terror, writing seven books and earning an Oxford PhD. He critiques Dem eratic centrism, questions political culture, and seeks a meaningful public role rather than a campaign.
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New Hampshire
Moscow
Iraq
Iran
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Osama bin Laden
Afghanistan
Gary Hart
Redemp
Hart
Homeland Security
America
Snickers
Oxford
Pentagon
Fareed Zakaria
Alexander Hamilton
John F. Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
Bimini
Lee Hart
Karl Marx
David Skribman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PUBLIC FORUM Applauding Joes and silent housing protests
A reader praises the editor for articles on low income housing hardships and consequences of tenant silence. The letter cites Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin as undesired influences and thanks Lenta Walker and Journal-World editors for exposing the issue and inviting community solutions.
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Susan Wagle
Joe McCarthy
Joe Stalin
Larry Day
Lawrence
Lenta Walker
Walker
Journal-World
Hilda Enoch
Weather and civic concerns raise reader letters
A reader urges readers not to rely on outdoor sirens for severe weather alerts praising NOAA radios and TV forecasts for May 8 2003 storms in eastern Kansas. Letters discuss Eagle Bend taxes downtown Lawrence housing issues and critique state schooling policy and extremism in biology education.
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Kansas
Douglas
Douglas County
NOAA
Matt Withers
Lawrence
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