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City OKs policy for high-speed broadband
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But long wait is likely in store for consumers By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw
After an 18-month debate, Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday approved a policy designed to make it easier for companies to build high-speed gigabit broadband service in the city. The delay, though, may end up costing Lawrence in its race to get the Google Fiberlike service before other area communities. Baldwin City-based RG Fiber confirmed that it signed an agreement with Eudora officials on Monday that is expected to bring
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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER VALERIE SCHRAG, center, and student Jordan Martinez, right, participate in class Tuesday at LHS. Schrag will receive Northwestern University’s Distinguished Secondary Teacher Award during a ceremony on June 18. The awards honor high school teachers who had “transformative effects” on the lives of graduating Northwestern University seniors whom they once taught. LHS alumna Brittany Ray (class of 2011) nominated Schrag for the award.
LHS teacher wins distinguished honor from Northwestern history teacher is most Twitter: @elliothughes12 excited about is a thank you from a former stuworld-class unident. versity honored Based on a nomination Lawrence High from that former pupil, School history teacher Northwestern UniverValerie Schrag Tuesday, sity awarded Schrag the but the recognition the Distinguished Secondary
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Teacher Award, which annually goes to five high school teachers who had “transformative effects” on the lives of graduating Northwestern seniors they once taught. “One of the greatest rewards we can receive
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is our students saying ‘thank you’ to us, whether they’re in our classroom or in other points in time,” Schrag said Tuesday. “I think that’s the thing that meant the most Please see TEACHER, page 2A
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Local lawmakers expect tough wrap-up session By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — Kansas lawmakers return to the Statehouse today for the start of what many are expecting to be a difficult and possibly prolonged wrap-up session as they try to finalize a spending plan for state government in the face of an estimated $422 million revenue shortfall. “I think it’s going to be a
very contentious, drawnout session,” said Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City. The $422 million shortfall repre- Holland sents the difference between the amount of spending House and Senate negotiators have tentatively approved, and
sweeping income tax cuts that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback championed in 2012 and 2013. Those changes eliminated income taxes for more than 300,000 businesses — mainly sole proprietorships and small corporations whose owners receive “pass-through” income from business profits — as well as reductions in the tax rates for wage earners, who still pay
The attorney representing Sara Gonzales McLinn, 20, convicted of first-degree murder in the death of CiCi’s Pizza owner Harold “Hal” Sasko, is seeking a new trial. McLinn’s sentencing, originally scheduled for today, has been delayed so a hearing can be held on the motion for a new trial. McLinn was convicted McLinn March 20 of the Jan. 14, 2014, murder of Sasko. Jurors agreed after her conviction that the act was committed with “aggravating factors,” making McLinn
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the amount of money the state actually expects to have available. But that plan includes a lot of “one-time money,” including nearly $377 million to be taken out of the state highway fund, much of it to shore up state general fund expenditures. The actual gap between anticipated general fund spending next year and regular, general fund revenue is more than $775 million. Much of that is due to the
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