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Brownback defends education funding
Trafficway inching toward goal
Gov. has new goals for K-12, higher ed John English/Special to the Journal-World
THIS AERIAL VIEW LOOKS WEST from above Kansas Highway 10, just east of 1750 Road, and shows where the path of the final leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway, visible at left, will connect with K-10 and wrap around the south side of Lawrence and 31st Street. Columbia, Mo.-based Emery Sapp & Sons Inc. was awarded the $129.8 million construction bid for the SLT last year. The project is expected to be completed by late 2016.
Wicked Broadband launches super-fast Internet portals ahead of city vote
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e are entering that time period where the entire U.S. economy becomes highly dependent on super-fast Internet service. Of course, I’m talking about the fantasy football season, and your ability to quickly drop Kansas City Chiefs players off your roster as they hurt themselves tying their shoelaces. Well, perhaps there are other reasons for gigabit broadband, and now Lawrence residents have a new place to try the superfast service. Lawrence-based Wicked
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Broadband on Sunday launched a new gigabit demonstration site at Z’s Devine Espresso at 23rd
and Harper streets. If you are confused about what gigabit service is, it is the same type of super-fast Internet service that Google Fiber is installing in the Kansas City metro. (Now you, too, can download SUV reviews as fast as they do in Johnson County.) Wicked plans to have a second demo site operational — likely today — at the Good Eats restaurant, which you may remember as the former site of the Basil Leaf Cafe near Sixth and Fireside in West Lawrence. Wicked has offered gigabit
service at several apartment complexes and other locations around town for some time now, but hasn’t been able to widely deploy the service. But that may change. Get ready to start hearing more about gigabit service in Lawrence. City commissioners are expected to have a vote soon on whether to provide a $1 million loan guarantee to Wicked Broadband to help the company install a pilot project that would bring
By Peter Hancock phanccock@ljworld.com
Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback continued to spar with Democrats Monday over the question of whether state funding for education has gone up or down under his administration. Speaking at campaign events in Johnson County and Topeka, Brownback repeated his assertion that overall education spending has gone up each year he’s been in office. He also rolled out new goals for Brownback education for the next four years that focused on outcomes for both K-12 and higher education. “We’ve got record amounts of money going into the K-12 classroom,� Brownback said at the Topeka event. “The formula is now back in equalization as the court has ordered and has now said it is. And my opponent (Rep.) Paul Davis voted against that. He voted against putting more mon- Davis ey in K-12. He voted against the equalization formula.�
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Jenkins hears feedback about sexual assault from KU students, staff By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Kansas University student Angela Murphy on Monday said she doesn’t feel safe walking home alone in the evening. Murphy and other KU students and school administrators shared their concerns with U.S.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka, who was gathering information to take back to Washington, D.C., where legislators are working on measures aimed at reducing sexual assaults on college campuses. “We want to ensure that universities can provide the safety for these young people while
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women on the economic front. “Two thirds of those making minimum wage in this country are women, many of them single parents. We need to take serious action in Congress to help change these startling statistics,� she said. Please see SAFETY, page 2A
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educating them,� said Jenkins, a co-sponsor of bipartisan legislation on campus safety in the U.S. House. Democrat Margie Wakefield, who is challenging Jenkins in the November election, said she supported the legislation, too. But Wakefield said Congress also needed to do more for
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Because of a partisan stalemate in Congress, federal election officials might not have to impose the proof-of-citizenship requirement on voter registration forms. Page 3A
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