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THURSDAY • JUNE 12 • 2014
Court sides with state on equity issue in schools
BETWEEN REALITY AND SCIENCE FICTION Writers, fans and scholars to converge at KU conference
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Panel takes no action on question of overall funding
By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
By Peter Hancock
There is a question among science fiction fans and futurism aficionados repeated so often that it has become more than just a refrain or cliche. It embodies a whole genre of thought. T h e question: Where is my flying car? S c i e n c e fiction writers This year’s often try conference will to analso honor the t i c i p a t e work of the what the late Frederik world Pohl, a wellwill look known figure in like descience fiction. c a d e s or centuries out. Sometimes they get eerily close to reality. Sometimes they are way off, as with those who predicted personal air cars by the 21st century. The intermingling
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Topeka — A three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that the Kansas Legislature satisfied the demands of a recent Supreme Court ruling to equalize education funding between rich and poor school COURTS districts. After a hearing that lasted about three hours, the judges said the additional $129 million that lawmakers added for equalization of capital outlay and local option budgets was sufficient to meet the standards that the Kansas Supreme Court handed Please see SCHOOL, page 9A
JAMES GUNN, KU PROFESSOR EMERITUS of English and founding director of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, is pictured Wednesday in his Lawrence home. Gunn also founded the Campbell Conference at KU.
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Kansas GDP lagging most states in region By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Topeka — Kansas’ gross domestic product grew 1.9 percent in 2013, slightly ahead of the national rate, but lagged behind all regional states except Missouri, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. “We’re not doing very well,” said Kansas University professor Donna Ginther, director of the Center for Science, Technology and Economic Policy. In the Plains Region, Ginther North Dakota’s GDP grew 9.7 percent; South Dakota, 3.1 percent; Nebraska, 3 percent; Iowa, 2.9 percent; Minnesota 2.8 percent and Missouri, 0.8 percent. Please see GDP, page 2A
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