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Tax plan still stuck in Senate
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Lawmakers express frustration as end of session approaches By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
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FRANK DILLON GRADUATED FROM EUDORA HIGH SCHOOL in 2000, then got a rocky start at KU before joining the military and deploying overseas multiple times. He returned to KU and is now graduating with a business/entrepreneurship degree and a 3.79 GPA. Frank’s family from left is Joshua, 8, Miranda, 2, wife, Maggy, and Samantha, 7.
Army combat medic gets 2nd chance at college degree
Debater learned to trust her voice
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By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
When Jyleesa Hampton arrived at KU as a freshman, debate coach Scott Harris told her there was a place on the squad for students of all skill levels. That was her — never a high school debate superstar, not much experience, limited knowledge. A month ago she was half of KU’s first allfemale and first all-African-American debate team to make it to the
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The letter Frank Dillon got from KU after his first semester politely “encouraged” him to improve his GPA. The letter KU sent after his second semester informed him that he — and his 0.26 GPA — would not be welcome back. “The most common term would be flunking out,” Dillon said. Dillon, successful in high school without much effort, started KU as an engineering student, found the classes difficult and rather
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JYLEESA HAMPTON, half of KU’s first all-female and first all-AfricanAmerican debate team to make it to the equivalent of the “Sweet 16” of the National Debate Tournament, is graduating from Please see DEBATER, page 2A KU with a triple major.
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Avid student of history prepares for Scotland
LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL graduating senior Kennedy Dold soon will be leaving the comforts of her parents’ farmhouse and the “quirkiness” of Lawrence, as she put it, to study archaeology and history at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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Have you ever heard of a high school freshman mummifying some store-bought chicken? Neither had one of the best archaeology schools in the world. When the time comes for high school students to write their college essays, many wonder how they can stand out. Kennedy Dold, a soon-tobe graduate of Lawrence High School, and her parents described the time she rounded
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Lawrence Veterans Memorial Stadium at Lawrence High School, 1901 Louisiana St. up some peat to give the old “bog body” style of mummification a try. “Yeah, I was kind of an ambitious child,” Dold said, with Please see LHS, page 2A
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The look of exasperation on Sen. Les Donovan’s face was visible when, at the end of another unproductive committee meeting, he called the debate to an end. “Committee, obviously we are going down a dead-end street. We’re adjourned,” said Donovan, R-Wichita, who chairs the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. Donovan had hoped the LEGISLATURE committee would vote to move a tax bill to the full Senate, knowing there would be many more opportunities for discussion and amendments by the full body. But instead, committee members spent the meeting removing portions of the bill they didn’t like, and the motion to advance the bill to the full Senate never came. That leaves the Senate no closer to solving the state’s looming $406 million budget hole. Saturday will mark the 90th day of the 2015 session — the traditional deadline for lawmakers to finish their work. But leaders in both chambers already have resigned themselves that it could take at least another week before the Legislature can adjourn.
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Topeka (ap) — The Kansas Senate rejected a measure Thursday to allow supermarkets and convenience stores to sell full-strength beer. The chamber voted 26-11 against adding the proposal to a bill on alcohol regulations. The Senate later approved the bill on a 31-5 vote. It goes to the House. Supermarkets and convenience stores in Kansas now can sell only beer with 3.2 percent alcohol. Stronger alcoholic drinks can only be sold in the state’s roughly 750 individuallyowned liquor stores. The bill would allow alcohol to be consumed at official events at the Statehouse and create a permit process for alcohol to be sold and consumed at venues like fairs and art galleries. Also Thursday, Kansas lawmakers said they had come to a regulatory agreement that will keep ride-hailing company Uber in the state. Uber announced in early May it had ceased operations in Kansas after the Legislature overrode the governor’s veto on regulations the company opposed. Under the agreement, Uber and other ridehailing companies would be allowed to do third-party background checks on their subcontracted drivers. But they would face possible lawsuits from the state attorney general if drivers were found to be operating with a criminal background. Both chambers are expected to vote on the deal today.
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