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THURSDAY • FEBRUARY 4 • 2016
CATERING TO MORE THAN JUST CARS
Judicial selection vote lacks majority Sweeping changes to Kansas courts face hurdle in final decision today By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
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FROM LEFT, HANS COLEMAN, his dog Cleopatra, Christian Embrey and Nathaniel Spencer walk between holes during a Wednesday game of disc golf in Centennial Park. A new volunteer count is seeking to make Lawrence more friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists by measuring the volume of such traffic in key areas.
Campus leads way in bike, foot traffic “
n September, a few dozen volunteers counted bicyclists and pedestrians at 22 locations across Lawrence, hoping to discover more about how many people walk and bike, and where they’re doing it. Now, data from the count are ready to be used to inform the city’s decisions on infra-
structure projects, said Jessica Mortinger, a senior transportation planner with the city. Because of the upcoming reconstruction of Kasold Drive, locations on that street were included in the 2015 count. “We hear often from the community this desire for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure,” Mortinger said. “So documenting how that’s being used, our existing infrastructure, is
By Roxana Hegeman
Forecast paints tough future for economy, rural populations
By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @NikkiWentling
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It goes back to the ‘build it and they will come’ philosophy of infrastructure and safety improvements.” — Jessica Mortinger, senior transportation planner important to show what the value is.”
Lawrence’s data are submitted to the National Bicycle & Pedestrian Documentation Project, which created a national database of bike and pedestrian activity. This was the seventh year Lawrence has participated in the project. Following the project’s methodology for counting, volunteers in September
Topeka — The Kansas House voted Wednesday to advance toward final action on a proposed constitutional amendment that would change the way state Supreme Court justices are selected, but the 69-53 vote was far short of the two-thirds majority, or 84 votes, needed to pass the measure. A final vote in the House is scheduled for today. The measure calls for adopting what some had called a “federal model” for selection in which the governor would appoint justices, subject to LEGISLATURE Senate confirmation. It would replace the current “merit selection” process that has been in place since 1959 in which an independent, nonpartisan nominating commission made up mostly of lawyers screens candidates and submits three names from which the governor selects. Please see JUDICIAL, page 2A
FREE STATE HIGH
Flag display not meant to be racist, Kansas seniors to outnumber kids in 50 years? student says Associated Press
Wednesday said. Wichita — The number The study by Wichita of Kansas residents older State University’s Center than 65 is expected to dou- for Economic Developble in the next 50 years, ment and Business Reoutnumbering children for search also projects a 21.8 the first time in state hispercent increase in the tory as the population ages state’s overall population and more working-age between 2014 and 2064 as families leave the state in the number of Kansas resisearch of better opportudents reaches more than nities, a forecast released 3.5 million people. That
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is worrisome because it is that body of labor that produces goods, pays income and sales taxes and generally drives the state’s economy. “I did not anticipate that group to not be as self-sustaining as it had been in the past,” Hill said. Please see SENIORS, page 2A
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By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
The Free State High School student who was disallowed from flying a full-sized Confederate flag from a makeshift flagpole on his pickup truck said he has been unfairly “sinSCHOOLS gled out” as being racist. The student said he had family on “both sides” of the Civil War and pointed out that he was flying both Please see FLAG, page 8A
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is slower than the growth rate for the nation. But the biggest social and economic impact may come from projections that the state’s workingage population, ages 18 to 64, is expected to increase only 10.3 percent during that period. Jeremy Hill, the center’s director, said that
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Classroom police?
Vol.158/No.35 26 pages
Lawmakers are weighing a bill that would allow Kansas teachers to be prosecuted for material perceived as harmful to minors. Page 3A
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