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‘Band-Aid’ deal struck at last ‘Largest tax increase in state history’ ends marathon 113-day legislative session By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
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ZACH DAWSON, A CREW MEMBER OF KU’S STUDIO 804, gets things cleaned up Friday outside the team’s home project at 1301 New York St. The “passive” home will be open today for public viewing. By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
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t’s not easy to build a home that meets the highly demanding criteria for official architectural sustainability designations. But Connor Rollins, a 2015 Kansas University master’s of architecture grad, hopes homes that do make the cut — like the “passive” house he and colleagues from KU’s Studio 804 class just completed in East Lawrence — can at least be inspirational. Even “little things here and there” can reduce the energy a home uses, he said, from making walls a Please see BUILDING, page 2A
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CREW MEMBER ALEX WOLFRUM sands down kitchen countertops Friday in the new home.
KU Studio 804’s passive house, 1301 New York St., will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. The newly constructed threebedroom, two-anda-half bathroom house was designed to meet green standards of the Passive House Institute U.S., the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program and the International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge.
Topeka — Kansas lawmakers adjourned the 2015 session Friday after passing a tax package that still falls short of fully funding the state’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The bill relies heavily on increased sales and cigarette taxes to generate about $384 million in new revenues, and it still requires Republican Gov. Sam Brownback to cut LEGISLATURE about $50 million in spending out of the budget that passed the House and Senate earlier this month. It does not, however, reverse course on any of Brownback’s policies of phasing out income taxes over time and exempting certain business owners from paying any income tax at all. Brownback had threatened to veto any tax bill that contained an income tax on business owners, even though as recently as Thursday his administration alluded to the possibility of having to zero out all state funding for public universities if the Legislature didn’t pass an adequate tax bill he would sign. The final tax package actually was Please see DEAL, page 2A l Anatomy of a deal: A closer look at how Friday’s accord affects taxes. 2A l Saturday Column: Long session an embarrassment for Kansas. 3A
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awrence residents may have a big excuse this summer to get wet. There’s information out on the social media world advertising that a 1,000-foot temporary water slide is coming to Lawrence in August. A company called The Urban Slide is advertising that it will be on Eighth Street on Aug. 8 and 9. The company’s website promotes the slide as being 1,000 feet long and “built for steady sliding and extraordinary family fun.” The website doesn’t really spell out the specific location for the slide, but when you click on the “directions” tab on the site, it takes you to the block of Eighth Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets. I wouldn’t count on that, though.
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That would cause Massachusetts Street to shut down, and I don’t think the city really wants that.” — Ryan Robinson, Silverback leader and water slide organizer Upon further review, Lawrence-based Silverback — the production company that works with The Color Run and other such events — is involved with the Urban Slide. Silverback leader Ryan Robinson said the group originally wanted to have the slide downtown, but a host of logistical issues has that looking unlikely. For one, the slide works best on a hill, which is lacking in downtown. And then there is the issue of size — 1,000 feet is really long. Robinson estimated the slide is
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about 2.5 blocks long. “That would cause Massachusetts Street to shut down, and I don’t think the city really wants that,” Robinson said. Robinson said he’s now looking at areas around the KU campus. Robinson mentioned Mississippi Street and Fambrough Way as possibilities. He said he hasn’t settled on any location, and the use of any city street is going to have to win approval from city officials for safety and traffic purposes.
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