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‘Ironic’ Kansas bill would negate $1.3M voters OK’d for schools
Eldridge expansion incentives move ahead By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
A city committee has given preliminary approval to tax breaks for the proposed Eldridge hotel exInside: pansion, which City OKs would fill a longpolice empty gravel lot dog on Massachufunding. setts Street. 3A Lawrence’s Public Incentives Review CITY COMMISSION Committee considered the Eldridge’s request during its meeting Tuesday. A public hearing on the Please see ELDRIDGE, page 2A
Historic picture removed from Capitol after words censored
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SIXTH-GRADERS GRACE SHARON, LEFT FRONT, AND ZELLA LUBIN-MEYER confer over a measurement of Lubin-Meyer’s vertical jump in the hallway outside their Guided Studies classroom Tuesday at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. In back are Sophie Brandon, partially obscured, back left, and Kiersten Baber. Some state legislators are working on a bill that would cut local option budgets. If the measure were to pass, Lawrence would lose an estimated $1.3 million from its local option budget, roughly equivalent to the $1.4 million voters here recently approved.
Lawrence district could slash open positions and stop buying supplies, superintendent warns By Peter Hancock
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he increased school funding that voters in the Lawrence school district approved last month would be effectively wiped out under a bill now working its way through the Kansas Senate. In a mail ballot election
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Ironic, isn’t it?” —Lawrence Superintendent Rick Doll that was completed Jan. 27, voters overwhelmingly approved a measure to let the district keep about
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Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas Historical Society has removed an 1860s illustration depicting an election in the state’s territorial period after receiving complaints that the image had been airbrushed to remove references to voter fraud. The original illustration, “Voting in Kickapoo” by Frank Beard, shows men waiting to vote and then lining up for whiskey after
$1.4 million in lo“Ironic, isn’t cally generated it?” Lawrence school funding. Superintendent But on TuesRick Doll said in day, the Senate a telephone inWays and Means terview after the Committee heard hearing. testimony on a All that is the SCHOOLS bill that would result of a long seeffectively wipe out that ries of events that started increase by changing the last year with the Kansas way some state aid is disPlease see SCHOOLS, page 4A tributed.
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The removal of the illustration came after Sen. Greg Smith, an Overland Park Republican, questioned on Twitter the changes to the Please see HISTORIC, page 2A image.
KU lecturer sentenced
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An award-winning Kansas University lecturer now is serving two years of probation after a judge found him guilty of stalking. Page 3A
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