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Kansas appeals to U.S. Supreme Court By Karen Dillon, Sara Shepherd and Elliot Hughes Twitter: @LJWorld
The state of Kansas is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay to keep a ban against gay marriages in place while it considers a legal challenge from two lesbian couples, one of
Douglas County will issue same-sex marriage applications Wednesday them living in Douglas County. In back-to-back action Friday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denied a request from Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office to put on
hold a lower-court injunction preventing the state from enforcing anti-gay marriage laws, including a provision in the state constitution. Schmidt then announced he was planning to ask U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomeyor, who handles emergency constitutional questions, to stay the original injunction pending the state’s appeal. Please see COURT, page 2A
‘Things were moving and changing’ For professors who lived through Berlin Wall’s end, an anniversary and teaching tool
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Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback vowed during the recent campaign that if he was re-elected, he would not cut K-12 education funding. But school officials around the state, as well as some budget experts, are worried that keeping that promise may be imposLEGISLATURE sible after Monday, when a group of economists and other state officials meet to make their official forecast of state revenues for the next 18 months. That’s because in the first four months of the current fiscal year, revenues have come Please see SPENDING, page 2A
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MARIKE JANZEN, A KANSAS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, shows off a piece of the Berlin Wall she was given after the wall came down 25 years ago, when she was in West Berlin.
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Education spending faces tough test Monday revenue forecast could dictate whether Brownback’s promise holds
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As Marike Janzen remembers, the crowd around the Berlin Wall when it fell was joyful but, at the same time, solemn. After all, people had died trying to cross it, Janzen said. “The wall was this really vio- TUESDAY lent thing.” LECTURE Sunday marks Kansas the 25th anniversary of the University day the wall associate came down, re- professor opening a bar- of history rier between Nathan Wood West Germany will give and Communist a lecture titled “Taking East Germany. Janzen is one Stock: 25 of several Kan- Years Since sas University the Fall of professors who the Wall” experienced the at noon historic event Tuesday in firsthand or room 318 whose experi- of Bailey ences with the Hall, 1440 wall led them to Jayhawk study its social Blvd. The talk and political will focus impact on the on changes in the Berlin world. The assistant region since professor of Nov. 9, 1989. humanities and coordinator of KU’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program was 17 when the wall fell. She had
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