Counties and City Seek Long-Term Trash Pact
Douglas County and Lawrence officials pursue a long term agreement with the Jefferson County Douglas County landfill to guarantee stable pickup rates and future dumping space. Negotiations involve landfill owner Rod Hamm and Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug with focus on cost coverage and resident benefit.
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Douglas County
Rod Hamm
Jefferson County
Craig Weinang
Hamm
Mike Wildgen
Weinaug
Lawrence
U.S. Highway 2459
Doctors Question The Value Of Milk In Diets
In Boston a news conference features Dr Benjamin Spock and other doctors questioning cow dairy’s nutritional value for children and urging breastfeeding as best. Oski calls milk unusable for humans, while a dairy nutritionist counters that the stance may reflect vegetarian bias.
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Baltimore
Benjamin Spock
Spock
Boston
Frank A. Oski
Johns Hopkins University
Neal Barnard
Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine
Oski
Dairy Industry
Physicians Committee
Greg Miller
Chicago
National Dairy Council
Miller
Haskell runners prepared for Flame Spirit cross country run
Haskell Indian Junior College cross country team aims for Columbus Ohio as 16 runners including four women begin the Flame Spirit run at 7 a.m. from the Medicine Wheel Earth Art. Runners carry torches with fire from a 54 country relay to New York City.
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Haskell Indian Junior College
Columbus
Ohio
America
Melicent Boysen
Visible Horizons
Americas
Haskell
New York City
al Gipp
Club developer seeks zoning appeal over sunroom setback
Local developer Mike Stultz built a sunroom for Greystone Athletic Club at 2512 W Sixth St in the wrong place and time. He asks the Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals to grant an after the fact variance to allow the addition to stand as city records show variance and site plan expired. The case heads to a 7 p.m. Thursday meeting at city hall.
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Mike Stultz
Greystone Athletic Club
Stultz
W. Sixth
Board of Zoning Appeals
Lawrence
City Hall
Sixth
Massachusetts Streets
Sixth Street
Zoning Board of Appeals
Dave Guntert
Economic forecast paints break picture for future
The Commerce Department says the leading indicators slipped 0.2 percent in August, with a second downturn in three months, while the Conference Board reports September consumer confidence dipping to 564, its lowest pre election level in two decades. The data echo last year's late recovery falter and fuel fears of a possible triple dip in the economy.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Conference Board
Bush
Chiefs Rally Past Raiders on Monday Night at Arrowhead
Dave Krieg scored two rushing TDs and Barry Ward gained 125 yards as the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Los Angeles Raiders 27 to 7 on Monday night at Arrowhead. President Bush visited Tennessee railing at Bill Clinton while Ross Perot said he would decide by Thursday about entering the race.
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Dave Krieg
Barry Ward
Chiefs
L.A. Raiders
Arrowhead
Bush
Tennessee
Bill Clinton
Ross Perot
At LHS they mean business and office education
Lawrence High School senior Jay Bomberger works as an office clerk after morning classes to gain computer literacy typing and business communication skills. The office education program plus agriculture home economics and tech and applied science aim to ready students for entry level jobs and college.
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Jay Bomberger
R’s. Bomberger
Lawrence High School
LHS
Bomberger
Helen Seeley
Seeley
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Gloria O'Dell
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