Lawrence Journal-World 10-14-2016

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Lawrence plant’s future unclear By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

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Above: Kansas center Udoka Azubuike (35) gets his jitters out in the back row as he and the rest of the team, the coaches and the student managers prepare for a team portrait during Media Day on Thursday at Allen Fieldhouse. Left: Azubuike smiles as he talks to reporters. See more Media Day photos at kusports.com/mediaday2016.

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U.S. Sen. Roberts says he’s still endorsing Trump By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts told a Lawrence audience Thursday that he finds Donald Trump’s behavior and comments “abhorrent,” but said he is standing behind the Republican presidential nominee, mainly because he thinks Trump would make better appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court than

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commerce. “And I’m equally concerned about the duplicity and the perfidy on the part of our other candidate.” Roberts was referring to remarks that were recently revealed in a 2005 video tape in — U.S. Senator Pat Roberts which Trump boasted of making uninvited sexual advances toward women as well as a Democrat Hillary Clinton. havior abhorrent,” Roberts flood of allegations that have “I consider the Republican said during a luncheon speech nominee’s comments and be- to the Lawrence chamber of > ROBERTS, 2A

I consider the Republican nominee’s comments and behavior abhorrent. And I’m equally concerned about the duplicity and the perfidy on the part of our other candidate.”

Finding out what school board is doing can be challenging

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et’s be honest: We members of the public sometimes can be annoying. After having covered Lawrence City Commission meetings for more than two decades, I saw that firsthand on many Tuesday evenings. So many public comments about so many different topics. Even though the clawhorn@ljworld.com length of those public comments, or their annoying, they are a tone, or their repetitive very important part of nature could become the process. They help

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ensure that public officials don’t govern in an echo chamber. One public government that receives little public feedback is the Lawrence school board. The amount of public participation in a Lawrence school board meeting pales in comparison to the amount of participation at a Lawrence City Commission meeting.

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Country singer Brad Paisley will perform a free concert at KU parking lot 94, east of Memorial Stadium, at 8 p.m. today.

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Kansas City Power & Light has reached an agreement with the staff of the Missouri Public Service Commission that should eliminate one key question in the utility’s proposed $12 billion merger with Topeka-based Westar Energy. Lawrence residents, though, may still have a significant question about the merger of two of We will the region’s largest elec- continue tric provid- to look for ers: What the best will happen to Westar’s opportunities c o a l - f i r e d across the power plant board. I do just outside the Law- know (the rence city Lawrence limits? plant) is a T e r r y great plant, Bassham, c h a i r m a n though.” and CEO — Terry Bassham, of KCP&L, chairman and CEO told a Law- of KCP&L rence crowd Thursday that it was still too early to know how the merger will impact the Lawrence Energy Center, which employs about 100 people and is one of the county’s largest payers of property tax. Bassham said the proposed merger will give the combined company more options in how it produces power. “We will continue to look for the best opportunities across the board,” Bassham said at a luncheon for economic development leaders, business leaders and others interested in the proposed merger. “I do know it is a great plant, though.” The plant in recent years was upgraded with scrubbers and other cleaner coal technology. KCP&L and its parent company, Great Plains Energy, announced in May that it had reached a deal to buy Westar Energy for $12.2 billion. Westar is the largest electric provider in Kansas, and is the dominant electric utility in Lawrence.

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