Lawrence Journal-World 11-06-2016

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Early voting is booming, but little agreement about why By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Voters in Kansas have been turning out in droves to cast advance ballots in the upcoming general

election, a trend that has in the past been an indicator of heavy voter turnout on Election Day. But when voters in Lawrence and Topeka are asked what motivated them to vote early, many of them gave very typical

answers that don’t reflect a higher-than-normal level of interest in the race. “I’m leaving the country on Wednesday so I wanted to make sure that I got my vote in and that it counted,” said

Janelle Franklin, a Topeka voter who cast her ballot Monday, Oct. 31. “I’m going to be out of town,” said Harley Catlin, who voted later that same day at an advance voting site in west Lawrence.

Mallery Warren, who voted Friday at the advance voting site on the University of Kansas campus, said it was mainly a matter of convenience for her.

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SDEBLATTE With road done, major players reflect on fight By Chad Lawhorn

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The completed South Lawrence Trafficway near the Haskell Avenue interchange is pictured on Monday; nearly 200 people march from South Park to the Baker Wetlands in April 2002 in protest of the trafficway; an Agnes T. Frog crossing sign sits outside a house in November 2001; more than 700 people wait for the beginning of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ public hearing on the South Lawrence Trafficway at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds in September 2002.

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Teachers share how they discuss race with kids her teachers at South Middle School. But when news broke last month that one of Amiyah’s teachers had been indefinitely suspended for allegedly making racist remarks in class, the sixth-grader returned home from school one day in the

By Joanna Hlavacek jhlavacek@ljworld.com

Taryn Steward has a daughter she loves, a daughter she describes as bright, goal-oriented (the 11-year-old dreams of becoming a veterinarian someday) and well-liked by

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he South Lawrence Trafficway surely must be the most debated stretch of concrete in Douglas County’s history. Yes, there are some projects that perhaps could match it in ferocity: construction of the Clinton Lake Dam in the 1970s and plans to build a downtown mall in the 1980s come to mind. But on the menu of Douglas County donnybrooks, those were just appetizers. The South Lawrence Trafficway ended up being the all-you-can-eat buffet.

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aftermath of the incident, her mother recalls, confused and hurt and suddenly unsure of her worth as a person of color. “She said she felt less of herself,” Steward, who is black, remembers of the conversation that followed. “It struck a nerve.”

Fortunately, Steward said, after she reassured Amiyah that “you can be whoever you want to be,” regardless of skin color, Amiyah seemed to bounce back from the incident.

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