Kansas Athletics ticket scandal deepens with new indictments
Editorial notes the ongoing Kansas Athletics ticket scandal after a internal probe found former staff skimmed as much as five million dollars in football and basketball tickets over five years. It questions how executives and the current ticket director Kassie Liebsch could stay in leadership as indictments emerge and criticizes oversight by KU officials.
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Kansas Athletics Inc
Athletic Department
Kansas University
Kansas Athletics
Kassie Liebsch
Ticket Office
Liebsch
Charlotte Blubaugh
Lew Perkins
Perkins
Bernadette Gray-Little
Political bickering overshadows business politics
The piece surveys post election infighting within both parties. It notes Republicans fractured between insurgents and regulars over leadership and earmarks, while Democrats contend with leadership challenges and tax policy battles. It highlights deficits, Social Security, taxes, oil dependence, and the deficit commission’s clashes as the era’s defining struggle.
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Thad Cochran
Mississippi
Nancy D. Pelosi
House
Lyndon Johnson
Sam Rayburn
Bipartisan Commission On
Canada
European Union
White House
Erskine Bowles
Cochairman
Deficit-Reduction Commission
Wall Street Journal
Alan Simpson
Wyoming
Rome
David Shribman
The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
No Compromises as McConnell Presses Obama on Lame Duck
Washington faces a standoff as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leverages a stronger GOP presence in both chambers to challenge President Obama’s agenda for the lame duck session. The fight spans tax policy and the New START treaty with Russia, with McConnell and allied Republicans resisting compromise and pressing Obama to secure enough GOP votes. Columnist David Broder notes Republicans claim the schedule limits debate, signaling obstinacy ahead of the 2012 election.
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Carl Sandburg
Lincoln
David Ross Locke
Petroleum V. Nasby
Ohio
Toledo Blade
Tennessee Valley Authority
George W. Bush
Senate
Mitch McConnell
Kentucky
Washington
United States
House
McConnell
Obama
Congress
White House
General Motors
Wall Street
Russia
Henry Kissinger
James A. Baker III
Brent Scowcroft
Jon Kyl
Arizona
Harry Reid
David Broder
Washington Post Writers Group
Rematch Set For 6A Playoff Semifinal Duel
Old Home Town notes Lawrence High School 10 0 and Shawnee Mission West 9 1 as top Sunflower League contenders awaiting a semifinal clash that could seal a perfect season and a state title add to LHS’s 1984 and 1979 championships. A separate 1910 jail breakout recounts Charles Keeney escaping by hollowing a wall, crawling to the fire department hay mow, and fleeing.
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Lawrence High School
Shawnee Mission West
LHS Lions
Lawrence Daily World
Charles Keeney
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the World Company
Sixth and
New Hampshire Streets
Lawrence
P.O
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Dolph C. Simons III
Dan C. Simons
Suzanne Schlicht
Dan Cox
Mediapharmedia
Ralph Gage
Republican Party
PMN
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Shpost.com
Old Home Town
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