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“There is really no law against it,” he notes. Well, no written law, but what on earth would cause someone to take an air compressor and plasma cutter on a Caribbean getaway? The answer is simple: a collision. More specifically, a collision of minds. Paley, you see, is a big wheel in Lawrence real
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LAWRENCE RESIDENT GEORGE PALEY is pictured on Wednesday in his East Lawrence studio, where he houses artifacts of past lives and careers and current works of art, as well as work by others who use his space to create their own art. Among some of Paley’s notable ventures were his involvement in the production of a Spanish-translated production of “Sesame Street” in the 1960s and a job as a certified wind-surfing instructor. In addition to being one of downtown Lawrence’s biggest property owners, Paley, now 65, creates sculptures from Please see PALEY, page 9A “junk,” as he refers to it, that he hauls back from Jamaica.
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Topeka — The proposal that does away with teacher tenure in Kansas was added to a school finance bill without any public input and lacks only Gov. Sam Brownback’s signature to become state law. That school finance bill includes $129 million to try to address a Kansas Supreme Court order to increase aid to poor school districts. But it also includes a number of education policy changes that State Sen. were pushed by conserva- Vicki Schmidt, tive Republican leaders R-Topeka, says, in the closing hours of the “The procedure regular legislative session regarding the that ended last week. policy changes While it is not unusual contained in for legislators to pack- this bill were age legislation with vari- clearly not ous bills in order to secure transparent.” more votes, in almost every instance each of those proposals receives some level of vetting and public input. But removing teacher tenure received no hearing where members of the public, Please see TENURE, page 9A
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When Casey Thomas decided to start his own veterinarian practice in Junction City, he understood he was taking a leap of faith. Starting a business often is. For years Thomas worked 60hour work weeks, plus emergency calls on nights and weekends, treating pets in the area
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