City considers easing blight rules to curb neglect
Lawrence city commissioners weigh changes to the environmental ordinance to stop declaring properties blighted and to require inspectors to guide owner compliance. Proposals seek clearer standards, remove the neigh borhood comparison clause, and engage neighborhoods early to prevent demolition and decline.
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Lawrence
City Commission
John Nalbandian
Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods
Notable U.S. and world events tied to anniversaries
The passage lists key milestones across politics and culture: Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik overthrow in the wake of Lenin. Thomas Nast’s 1874 Republican elephant symbol. Colorado women’s vote in 1893. Jeannette Rankin’s 1916 Congress election. MoMA’s 1929 opening. 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. FDR’s 1944 fourth term. Nixon’s 1962 press conference and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death. Carl Stokes’s 1967 Cleveland mayoral win. L. Douglas Wilder’s 1989 Virginia governorship. David Dinkins’s 1989 New York mayoralty. and the Prague Spring leader Alexander Dubcek’s death five years earlier.
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Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Alexander Kerensky
Republican Party
Thomas Nast
Harper's Weekly
Colorado
Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Museum of Modern Art
New York City
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Washington State
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Richard M. Nixon
California
Nixon
Eleanor Roosevelt
Carl Stokes
Cleveland
Ohio
L. Douglas Wilder
Virginia
U.S
David N. Dinkins
Alexander Dubcek
Journal-World Staff credits and mailing info
Postmaster address for the Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas is listed along with staff roles including Deputy Editor Roger Verdon Managing Editor John Taylor News Editor Ann Gardner Editorial Page Editor Tom Fisher and others. It notes USPS posting and bureau memberships.
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Bill Snead
Roger Verdon
John Taylor
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Mcarager
Bleak Democratic outlook after Tuesday elections
Washington columnist Sandy Grady reports a bleak mood for Democrats after Tuesday's vote. He notes thin fundraising, looming 1998 and 2000 races, and GOP advantage in cash and momentum. Clinton's ethics baggage and the DNC's legal bills worsen the party's position.
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Washington
al Gore
Gore
White House
Bill Clinton
U.S. House
Newt Gingrich
Christine Whitman
New Jersey
Jim McGreevey
Christie
Rudy Giuliani
New York City
Jim Gilmore
Christian Coalition
Virginia
Harrison Hickman
Republican National Committee
Dems
Democratic National Committee
Bob Bennett
DNC
Clinton
RNC
Whitman
Jersey
McGreevey
Don Beyer
Gilmore
Tapes not vindicating Nixon in plain sight
A critique of newly transcribed Nixon tapes says they reinforce his unlikable presidency but fail to solve why he ordered recordings. The piece blasts the tapes as self serving and pointlessly revealing, noting vulgar language, alleged antisemitism, and calls for impeachment while mocking attempts to craft a noble Nixonian legend.
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Richard Nixon
Nixon
White House
Henry Kissinger
Alexander Haig
America
Christ
John Dean
King
Timahoe
Kissinger
Haldeman
Haig
IRS
Rose Mary Woods
Public Forum on gas economy and daily driving habits
Harold E Fisher critiques rising gasoline use and urges stricter enforcement of traffic laws to improve national fuel economy. He cites his own Caprice mileage, notes SUV and luxury car inefficiencies, and calls for accountability by Lawrence and KU campus police and highway patrol to reduce unsafe driving patterns.
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Journal-World
Lawrence
Kansas University
EPA
Turnpike
Lawrence Police Department
EU Police Department
Highway Patrol
Harold E Fisher
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Nixon and local GOP wins mark Kansas vote scene
Douglas County voters backed President Nixon in re election while Kansas Gay and opponent Morris Kay won in Lawrence and statewide. Democrats gained ground in local ballots as Dutch elm disease spread, threatening many big elm trees and causing Lawrence to lose about a third of its mature trees.
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Douglas County
Richard Nixon
Kansas
Bob Docking
Lawrence
Morris Kay
Ladies Host Two Day Society Party With Games
World noted under Society Notes a two day party at a focal home. On day one forty ladies played the card game either. Day two featured blindfolding each participant and guiding them to pin a necktie on a large picture of a man, Mrs Leonard received roses for placing the necktie correctly. Courtesy Watkins Community Museum.
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Sixth and
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United States
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Ralph Gage
Julie Bechtel
Dolph Simons III
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
W.C. Simons
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Lawrence, Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Ema Sonly
McDonald's
Domino's
Pat Robertson
Doug Wilder
Dennis Harbor
Senate
Trent Lott
Newt
Sandy Grady
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Jworld.com
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