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Governor debate gets ‘ugly’
VenturePark opens with dreams of job creation By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw
Mayor Mike Amyx remembers when the Farmland Industries fertilizer plant on the east edge of Lawrence provided good jobs to hundreds of area residents. He also remembers when the plant went Let’s make bankrupt in the 2000s, this the most and how the vacant facility became an successful job eyesore at one of the creation center prime gateways into in northeast the community. On Tuesday, nearly Kansas.” 100 people gathered to celebrate the latest — Mayor Mike Amyx iteration of the property: A 220-acre business and industrial center called Lawrence
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KANSAS REPUBLICAN GOV. SAM BROWNBACK, RIGHT, makes a point during a debate against his challenger, Democrat Paul Davis, of Lawrence, left, Tuesday in Wichita. The race between Brownback and Davis remains close, according to recent polls.
In final round before Nov. 4, Brownback and Davis trade barbs over Carr murders By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press
tences for a quadruple homicide were vacated by the state Supreme Court in July. The Carr brothers were convicted of killing four people at close range in December 2000 at a Wichita soccer field. Brownback has long sought more power to directly appoint justices rather than use a longstanding merit system in which a committee comprised of lawyers
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and members of the public send up suggestions. The system was changed during his administration to give him more power over appointments to the Kansas Court of Appeals, but it takes a constitutional amendment to give him similar authority to appoint justices to the Kansas Supreme Court. “It matters what judges you appoint and whether they stick with the law and constitution or they
Wichita — Gov. Sam Brownback assailed Democratic challenger Paul Davis on Tuesday as a liberal who would appoint Kansas Supreme Court justices overly sympathetic to violent criminals, and Davis accused the Republican incumbent of trying to exploit a high-profile Wichita murder case to boost his re-election chances. Please see DEBATE, page 2A The confrontation during their fourth and final debate came on the same day Brownback’s campaign released a television ad ref- Retiring GOP insurance commissioner Sandy Praeger explains why she erencing brothers Reginald and opposes Brownback’s re-election, while U.S. Senate candidate Greg Jonathan Carr, whose death sen- Orman speaks to Kansas University students in Lawrence. Page 6A
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Douglas County trails in school vaccinations By Elliot Hughes Twitter: @ehughes12
Less than half of the children in Douglas County received all of their vaccinations on time during the 2012-13 school year, placing it well below the state average for immunization, a new reHEALTH port released Tuesday said. The Kansas Action for Children, a child advocacy group, reported that 48 percent of children in Douglas County are fully immunized by the age of 2. The rest of the state came in at 61 percent, and Douglas County’s peer counties scored 59. Please see TRAILS, page 2A
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Lawrence’s new rental licensing program so far has found deficiencies with almost 80 percent of inspected properties. Page 3A
Trash and Recycling Collection Schedule Residential recycling collection service is every-other-week starting on:
WEEK 1 - OCTOBER
Tues., Oct. 21 - Households with Tuesday trash service east of Kasold Drive Wed., Oct. 22 - Households with Wednesday trash service east of Kasold Drive Thurs., Oct. 23 - Households with Thursday trash service east of Kasold Drive Fri., Oct. 24 - Households with Friday trash service (all)
WEEK 2 - OCTOBER
Tues., Oct. 28 - Households with Tuesday trash service west of Kasold Drive Wed., Oct. 29 - Households with Wednesday trash service west of Kasold Drive Thurs., Oct. 30 - Households with Thursday trash service west of Kasold Drive
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