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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 2012
Page
1
On the eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001, the multibillion-dollar World Trade Center towers rise over lower Manhattan as the Ground Zero commemorations occur without politicians for the first time, renewing questions about politics shaping the observance.
Kansas State Oklahoma State and Oklahoma rank in the top 10 nationally in rushing yards led by Kansas State with 612. Through two weeks of the season all but one Big 12 team is averaging over five yards per carry.
Eric Hanushek of Stanford Hoover Institution notes the long fight, as Chicago teachers walk out protesting evaluations and job security. The dispute has national fringe as unions watch the action in America’s third-largest city.
Gov. Sam Brownback addressed about 1,200 at KU Lied Center pledging population and job growth as primary goals after signing sweeping tax cuts. He proclaims aim for a pro growth environment while protesters from Douglas County Democrats criticized the tax cuts as hurting the poor and middle class.
Kansas University announced an 11 million dollar five year National Institutes of Health grant to study why people develop diseases such as cancer Huntington's Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Professor Susan Lunte leads the effort expanding staff and equipment and enabling collaborations with other state universities to explore genetics of diseases. The funding backs ongoing KU research including Huntington's work by chemistry professor Michael Johnson, with about 30,000 nationwide cases and 600 in Kansas.
Hutchinson AP reports the Women's Christian Temperance Union persists in opposing alcohol tobacco and drugs a century after its Kansas State Fair booth. Despite beer gardens today the group notes Prohibition history and Kansas lingering dry counties while expanding renewed local activity and member interest led by Glenna Dellenbach and Patricia Jackson.
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