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Victims’ families seek to remake court By John Hanna Associated Press
Kansans for Justice asks voters to boot two who ruled in Carr appeal
Topeka — A small group of The state Revictims’ family members is wagpublican Party’s ing a campaign to remake the chairman and Kansas Supreme Court after it GOP Gov. Sam overturned the death sentences Brownback last of two brothers convicted of no- week endorsed efforts by the torious multiple murders. group, Kansans for Justice, to
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What we really want Kansans to understand over the rulings in the cases of is that the retention Jonathan and Reginald Carr. The brothers were sentenced part of the ballot is to die for shooting four people really important.”
get voters to remove two of the court’s seven justices in the Nov. 4 election. Brownback, locked in a tight race for reelection, brought further visibil- in a snow-covered Wichita field ity to the cause with a television — Amy James, victim’s girlfriend Please see COURT, page 2A ad criticizing “liberal judges”
Analysts see Davis taking Topeka
Praeger honored for advocacy
But panel meeting in Lawrence thinks U.S. Senate race is too close to call By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
istered to his Sproxton flock from its pulpit as proof that the chapel so organic to its current environment and important in the day-to-day life of the university was indeed relocated from England. Its large basement now houses his office and a fellowship room that students use for meetings or informal relaxation between
A panel of seven political analysts said Sunday they think Democrat Paul Davis is the odds-on favorite to win the Kansas gubernatorial election Nov. 4. But they think the U.S. Senate race is still too close to call. Insight Kansas, a group of political science professors in Kansas who write columns and blog about state politics, shared their observations Sunday during a forum at the Dole Institute of Politics on the Kansas University campus. They were joined by Ann Gardner, Davis editorial page editor of the Journal-World. Like TV sports analysts being interviewed Sunday morning just before the NFL football games, the panelists were asked to handicap the top two races on the Kansas ballot. Brownback “I think the odds are with Davis right now,” said Michael Smith, who teaches at Emporia State University. Washburn University’s Bob Beatty agreed, conditionally. “If Democrats will vote, over what their registration is, Davis should win,” he said. Chapman Rackaway of Fort Hays State University was the lone panelist to give a slight edge to Brownback.
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KANSAS INSURANCE COMMISSIONER SANDY PRAEGER hugs Kansas Advocates for Better Care executive director Mitzi McFatrich as Praeger receives the 2014 KABC Caring Award on Sunday afternoon at Maceli’s, 1031 New Hampshire St., in downtown Lawrence.
Baker ready to inaugurate new president By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @LJWorld
Lynne Murray will be inaugurated at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Baker University’s Clarice Osborne Memorial Chapel sits on the east side of the Baldwin City campus, nestled between groves of trees to its north and south and behind low wall of the same limestone used in its construction. With a donation from Robert Osborne, of Olathe, the chapel
and walls were brought stone by stone in 1996 to Baldwin City from Sproxton, England. Originally constructed 150 years ago with stones quarried in Leicestershire, the building complements the other limestone buildings on the Baker campus. Baker campus minister Kevin Hopkins points to a watercolor of the chapel as it existed when former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s father min-
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