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FRIDAY • APRIL 18 • 2014
Bound for Boston
Projections: Tax revenue falling in ‘14
This year’s marathon a special goal for Lawrence runners
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Budget officials say Kansas still in good shape
By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
A recent back injury and move into a new home weren’t going to stop Tiffany Francis from participating in Monday’s Boston Marathon. In fact, she knew on the day of last year’s race she would be back. The Lawrence interior designer remembers crying tears of joy as she ran the 2013 marathon: She was overwhelmed by all the well wishes from the crowd, the beautiful spectacle of the race. Then the bombs went off. The response to that tragedy — from first responders, law enforcement, the city of Boston — solidified her desire to run again. “I want to show that terrorists can’t stop us. We just have to keep moving forward and stick together,” said Francis, 51, who finished the marathon about 45 minutes before the explosions that Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo killed three spectators and wounded more than 260. ON MONDAY, THREE LAWRENCE RUNNERS, Jack Hope, left, Scott McVey and Leigh “If anything, I’m going out Myers will run in the Boston Marathon. Their friend and running partner John Please see BOSTON, page 2A Frydman, right, also of Lawrence, ran in last year’s Boston Marathon.
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Kansas tax revenue to fund state government continues to fall because of Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax cuts, but administration officials maintained that the state budget is in good shape and that the governor’s policies are helping the economy. State budget experts met Thursday to revise earlier revenue projections for the current fiscal year and for the fiscal year starting July 1. The new numbers immediately became the focus of the upcoming election season. The revisions showed that the state will collect Brownback nearly $178 million more in revenues than previously projected through June 2015. “These numbers all confirm that the governor’s priorities of growing the economy and controlling spending continue to bear fruits,” said Jon Hummell, Brownback’s interim budget director. But the numbers also show that total tax receipts to the state on an annual basis are dropping from $6.33 billion last year to $5.97 billion this year, and then staying relatively flat next year at $6.05 billion. House Minority Leader Paul Davis, the likely Democratic candidate for governor, Please see REVENUE, page 2A
HONOR FLIGHT
LAWRENCE RESIDENT and Marine Corps veteran John McCoin, 83, is going to Washington, D.C., as part of an Honor Flight.
This trip to D.C. especially poignant for veteran McCoin served during the McCoin said he also wants to visit Arlington NaKorean War, although he tional Cemetery, where he plans to be buried when never went overseas. He was veteran he dies. “I always like going by there,” he said. an aircraft mechanic at the
By Scott Rothschild
Twitter: @ljwrothschild
Marine Corps John McCoin has been to Washington, D.C., several times but has not been there recently enough to see the World War II Memorial, which opened in 2004. Today, the 83-year-old Lawrence resident will
fly to Washington with a group of other veterans and students of Lyndon High School, courtesy of the Honor Flight Network, a nonprofit that organizes
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Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C. trips for veterans to see naHe grew up in North tional war memorials. Carolina during the Great “I’m really excited,” Mc- Depression and World War Coin said on Thursday as he II. His older brother, Cecil, prepared to leave. “I really Please see FLIGHT, page 2A enjoy going to Washington.”
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Rape case to be retried
Vol.156/No.107 30 pages
Another trial will proceed in the case of an alleged 1997 rape of a Kansas University student after a judge denied multiple defense motions to dismiss. Page 3A
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