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Budget deal reached, but passage in doubt By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — Kansas House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a proposed budget deal Saturday, but it remains
doubtful whether the package has enough votes to pass either chamber. The bill, known as the “omnibus budget” package, contains some changes from the budget for the fiscal year that begins
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July 1 that lawmakers initially approved last year, and then later amended earlier this session. But it would do little to address a projected $153 million funding shortfall that was the result of new,
updated revenue forecasts released April 20. Instead, it would give Republican Gov. Sam Brownback authority to continue delaying a $92 million payment into the Kansas Public Employees
Retirement System that has already been delayed once. It also puts restrictions on additional cuts Brownback may need to make later in the year. The governor will need to cut between $140
million and $150 million to balance the budget. Please see BUDGET, page 6A l Budget deal raises
constitutionality questions. Page 3A
A SECOND CHANCE Program helps family move out of shelter and into new home By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling
How did Panda T Garden grow?
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hen you think of Lawrence’s longtime successful Chinese restaurant Panda Garden, you don’t often think of it being built upon potatoes and goulash. But as the restaurant at 1500 W. Sixth St. closed its doors for the final time on Saturday — the owners are retiring after 30 years in business — I heard a couple of stories that made me think that without potatoes and goulash, Lawrence never would have had Panda Garden. First, the potatoes. It is helpful if you understand that in Taiwanese culture, potatoes are considered the food of poor folks. That’s why Lucy White frequently would receive a bag of rice in the mail from her Taiwanese mother. She couldn’t stand the thought of her daughter eating potatoes in America.
he newest tenant of Rohan Ridge Apartments, Kayla Brown, broke conversation with a new neighbor late Tuesday afternoon when she spotted an old truck turn into the complex’s parking lot. From her doorway, she had been watching for it, waiting. Brown, 27, hurried down the stairs from her second-floor, three-bedroom apartment and met the truck as it pulled into a stall. A Lawrence Community Shelter employee drove the old Chevrolet Silverado, loaded with boxes and bags of donated dishes, toys, clothing and other essentials. More than the supplies, Brown was eager to see her two children, just retrieved from day care and smiling from the front seat. The kids — 5-year-old Joseph, or “Joe Joe,” and 3-year-old Amiyah — jumped from the cab, ran to their mom to give her a quick hug, and then darted up the stairs and in and out of every room of their new home. Please see HOUSING, page 8A
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LAWRENCE MOTHER KAYLA BROWN hugs her children Amiyah, 3, and Joe Joe, 5, moments before the two children see their new apartment for the first time. LEFT PHOTO: Sheryl Sanders, left, director of the family program at the Lawrence Community Shelter, gives a hug to Kayla Brown as Brown prepares to move into her apartment after seven months of living at the shelter with her two children.
About this series This is the first story in a five-part series exploring the shortage of affordable housing in Lawrence, which is designated through national health rankings as a “severe” problem in Douglas County. We’ll cover the attention that issue has received in the past year and what means city leaders and others are proposing, moving forward, to improve it. Part two will be printed in next Sunday’s Journal-World.
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