Volunteer Center links residents to local opportunities online
The United Way of Douglas County unveils a new Roger Hill Volunteer Center website to match volunteers with agencies and tasks. It offers roles from Big Brothers to carpentry at Hidden Valley Camp and even board appointments, encouraging time or money donations to support community needs.
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Obama and the 70s revival theme in campaign discourse
George Will analyzes how Obama echoes 1970s liberal reform themes from solar panels to campaign finance reform. He contrasts energy policy and health care priorities with the era's political rhetoric, noting spending, foreign money questions, and the Nixon-Carter-Reagan lineage in American politics.
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Public Forum on Obama Cabinet and Czars Experience
Jim Winn of Lawrence argues the Obama administration lacked practical business and job creation experience among 15 Cabinet nominees 46 czars and 15 task forces. He contends advisers come from politics and academia, claiming education alone fails without hands on application.
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Downtown merchants clash over panhandling and charity
The reader letter argues against punishing the homeless and questions what counts as a productive purchase, while another writer discusses the meaning of human life and abortion terms. The Journal-World notes letters must be concise, signed, with contact details, and may be edited for public forum use.
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Old Home Town Highlights Royals Win and Local Incidents
The Kansas City Royals clinched a 6 2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in the seventh game to reach the World Series. A KU Judiciary panel found two classroom arrest cases from 1970 not guilty. A Dodge City junior and a graduate student clashed in a May classroom incident over order and safety. In 1910, Lawrence Mayor Bishop urged cleaner town habits and ministers pushed an anti Sunday baseball movement, as reported by the Lawrence Daily World.
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