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Voters ‘SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS’ have big role in schools debate By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

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ABOVE: FORMER U.S. SENATORS AND LONGTIME FRIENDS NANCY KASSEBAUM AND BOB DOLE speak about the time they served in Congress, as well as contemporary politics, on Saturday afternoon at the Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive. BELOW: Dole is pictured in 1996 and Kassebaum in 1993.

Dole, Kassebaum reminisce, call for bipartisanship at forum By Elvyn Jones

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n an appearance Saturday at the Dole Institute of Politics, former U.S. senators Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum shared stories of their years together in Congress, while lamenting the current lack of bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill. The two Republicans, with 40 combined years of service in the Senate representing Kansas, fielded questions

from moderator William Lacy, director of the Dole Institute, for 90 minutes in front of an overflow crowd. Kassebaum, the daughter of 1936 GOP presidential candidate Alf Landon, served in the Senate from 1978 to 1997. After eight years in the U.S House of Representatives, Dole was first elected to the Senate in 1969 and

served until he resigned in 1996 to devote his energy to his presidential campaign. The event concluded with the presentation of the 2016 Dole Leadership Prize to Kassebaum. The award is given annually to an individual or group whose public service has inspired others. Past winners include Congressman John Lewis, Nelson Mandela, the Wounded Warrior Project and

former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Elections both past and present came up in the conversation. Dole demonstrated his famous wit with a quip about the Kansas election landscape during his political career. “You can’t win (elections) unless you have people working for you in every county,” he said. “Douglas County was a tough one. Both people who

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If you’re not surrounded by friends, you don’t get as far as you would like to go.”

— Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum

— Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole

Proposed updates to growth plan worry some developers By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

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Police launch homicide investigation; no arrests made A homicide investigation is underway after officers found 42-yearold Lawrence resident Lenny Dwayne Morrison dead Friday night in the 400 block of Ohio

Topeka — The long-running school finance lawsuit Gannon v. Kansas will return to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, marking the fourth time the justices have been asked to resolve the matter. This time, though, the oral arguments before the court will coincide with a hotly contested political campaign in which the issue of school funding is driving COURTS many races for state legislative seats. The arguments also come at a time when five of the seven Supreme Court justices are on the election ballot themselves, and active campaigns are underway to convince voters to either retain or not retain them, based largely on their previous decisions dealing with school finance and other hot-button issues, including the death penalty.

Street, Lawrence police said. Police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance involving weapons shortly before 9 p.m. Friday, according

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to department call logs. When they arrived, officers found the dead man and a woman “with significant injuries,” Lawrence Police Capt. Anthony Brixius said in

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No arrests had been made in the case, Brixius said. Police had not released any other details late Saturday.

As the Lawrence city limit has crept outward over the decades, most have come to agree that the city needs to do a better job of centralizing growth. How that is done, though, has left some developers and city leaders at odds. A preliminary draft of policy updates to Horizon 2020, the comprehensive plan governing Lawrence growth, would put a ring around the city to prioritize infill development.

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