Zuckerberg visit to Kansas prompts questions on Facebook’s health
The Lawrence editorial critiques Mark Zuckerburg’s KU visit as small and underpublicized while urging reflection on Facebook’s role in building community. It argues the platform often spreads misinformation and creates echo chambers, noting broader tech advances in perspective.
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Washington, D.C
Alabama Senate Race Ties to Football and Court Battles
An analysis of the Alabama Senate contest between Doug Jones and Roy Moore, linking Jones's legal prosecutions of bombers to post 9 11 security priorities, and Moore's conservative campaign focusing on social issues. The piece notes Alabama's political history and turnout dynamics amid national attention and football culture.
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Arizona
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Barack Obama
America
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Edmund Pettus
Martin Luther King
Montgomery
Virginia
Ralph Northam
Georgia
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Washington Post Writers Group
Public Forum Letter Advocates Audit and Gun Law Action
In a public forum Ken Meyer and Doug Wolff urge scrutiny of city finances after elections and argue for a thorough city audit. They criticize officials for inaction and press for common sense gun laws and opposition to concealed carry in public buildings.
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Lawrence
Possible female majority on Lawrence City Commission
The Lawrence Journal-World notes the newly elected City Commission could be the first with a female majority and may lack a Lawrence businessman, signaling a potential shift in leadership dynamics. Karen Booker.
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Lawrence
Karen Booker
Mass shootings rise prompts calls for gun law reform
The text argues that gun violence is escalating with mass shooting events becoming common. It cites a 2015 study and notes daily deaths in the United States while urging common sense laws such as mental illness checks, no fly list screening, private sale background checks, and campus concealed carry bans.
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Adam Lankford
University of Alabama
United States
Uniquely Lawrence Letter on MLA Usage at Dillons
A reader from Lawrence writes to the editor noting a brief discussion among two sackers and a checkout clerk at Dillons about MLA usage guidelines while bagging groceries. The writer ends with fond hometown sentiment.
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MLA
Modern Language Association
Bill Sharp
Lawrence
Letters to the Editor Submission Details
readers may submit letters by mail to P O Box 888 Lawrence Kansas 66044 or via email at letters ljworld com for publication in the local newspaper.
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Execution planned as Linn County sheriff arrives in 1867
From the Ran 5 page dated November 14, 1867 in Daily Tribune. Sheriff Goss arrives to oversee the execution of Scott Holder, to be hanged the next day. A North Lawrence disturbance draws a crowd as a woman claims the house owner’s family quarrel. a girl says pa and ma were drunk. A brass door-key is found and offered for return. An ad promotes a bread mixing and kneading machine at 93 Massachusetts Street.
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