City delays bike track plan as recreation goals reassessed
Commissioners postponed action on a Mountain Bike Lawrence request to build and maintain a bicycle motocross track on city land while a mayoral task force reviews recreation spending. The piece urges a comprehensive plan prioritizing broad access, affordability, and safety, balancing new facilities with existing concerns such as skateboarding near neighbors.
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T Ie
Centennial Park
Lawrence
Lawrence Aquatic Center
Burcham Park
Mountain Bike Lawrence Club
Kaw River
Eighth and
Oak Streets
North
Buford
Victimhood politics and social bias in policy
George Will critiques a shift toward victimology in U S policy arguing that widening set aside rules for socially disadvantaged contractors and the use of ability grouping in schools reflect a deeper trend. He cites SBA criteria expanding beyond race to environmental isolation and personal experiences of disadvantage, and notes a Civil Rights Commission discussion on ability grouping that many see as perpetuating grievance narratives.
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New Republic
Small Business Administration
Commission On Civil Rights
SBA
Congress
Harvard
The
Civil Rights Commission
Yvonne Lee
Clinton
Robert George
Princeton
Lee
San Francisco
Commissioner Lee
George Will
Washington Post Writers Group
A-plus Accounts proposed to boost education choice
Col Thomas argues for school choice as a fix to a failing system. He criticizes affirmative action limits in California and Texas and contrasts President Clinton's stance with Sen. Paul Coverdell's plan to create after tax A-plus education accounts funded early in life. He cites NEA opposition and outlines potential growth in savings to college costs.
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California
Texas
University of Texas
University of California At Berkeley School of Law
Clinton
Washington
Paul Coverdell
R-Ga
Coverdell
National Education Run
NEA
Clintons
Gores
Cation
Newt Gingrich
Stanford
Sidwell Friends School
America
Col Thomas
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Postmaster notice on address changes for Journal-World
Postal directive informs readers to send address changes to the Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas. It notes periodicals postage paid status and membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the Associated Press.
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Journal-World
P.O
Lawrence
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Public Forum on media limits and saints debate
In two letters readers challenge limits on photography and whether public figures deserve saintly status. Ted Frederickson defends First Amendment rights against bans on paparazzi while noting market demand for coverage of Diana and Clinton. Tom Clark defends sainthood as a divine judgment, arguing only God knows true sanctity.
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Calder Pickett
Princess Diana
Diana
Lawrence
The
Journal-World
Kansas City
David Duke
Oprah Winfrey
National Enquirer
New York Times
Larry Flynt
Gordon Parks
Ted Frederickson
Kansas University
Bill Thompson
Journal- World
Thompson
Sam
Tom Clark
Hugh Camerons Tramp Pioneer Endurance Tour 1897 News
Lawrence World reprints a Topeka Mail item about General Hugh Cameron arriving in Kansas after a pedestrian tour of the eastern states. He began in Lawrence on February 1, traveled on foot, averaging thirty one miles daily, and reached Washington for McKinley’s inauguration. Cameron, 71, known as the Kansas Hermit, once lived in a tree house by the Kansas River south bank near today’s Kansas Power & Light plant.
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Lawrence World
Topeka
Hugh Cameron
Kansas
Lawrence
Washington
McKinley
New York
Cameron
Kansas River
Kansas Power & Light
Watkins Community Museum
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Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
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Dolph Simons II
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