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Kobach to meet with Trump
PRECINCT 40:
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83.5% FOR CLINTON
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By John Hanna
Urban, rural areas show stark contrast in voting patterns
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C hicago — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is scheduled to meet this weekend with Presidentelect Donald Trump, according to a spokeswoman for the Republican official. Kobach is on his way to New Jersey for a meeting on Sunday, Kobach Kobach spokeswoman Desiree Taliaferro told The Ass o c i a t e d Press. She said she couldn’t confirm details of the planned Trump meeting. Kobach was an adviser to the Trump campaign on immigration issues.
PRECINCT 59 (H54):
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By Chad Lawhorn
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PRESIDENTIAL RACE BREAKDOWN In the presidential election, Hillary Clinton won the majority of votes in the blue precincts, and Donald Trump won the majority of the votes in the red precincts. The darker the color, the more
voters in that precinct voted for the candidate. Precincts where fewer than 100 ballots were cast are in gray. Precinct 40, which votes at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hamp-
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Trump lawyer: Suits were ‘distraction.’ 1B PRECINCT 10:
26.6%
PRECINCT 59 (H45):
81.8%
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In these maps, the five precincts with the highest voter turnout rates are highlighted in yellow. The five precincts with the lowest voter turnout rates are in white. The highest voter turnout rate, 81.8 percent, was in Precinct 59 (H45), which votes at Marion Township in southwest Douglas County. Precinct 10, which votes on the University of Kansas campus, had the lowest voter turnout rate at 26.6 percent. Note that all five of the precincts with the lowest turnout rates are located in Lawrence (at left). Only 1 of the 5 precincts with the highest turnout rates — Precinct 44 (H44), which votes at Lawrence Heights Christian Church on Peterson Road — is located in Lawrence.
By Rochelle Valverde
A new water rate model that would penalize high consumption has city leaders trying to find the balance between the city’s revenue needs and its conservation goals. “It’s kind of one of those rock and a hard place type deals,” said City Commissioner Lisa Larsen. That’s because one of the potential impacts of people reducing their water consumption is that the rates for everybody may have to increase to make up for the lost revenue.
shire St., had the highest percentage of Clinton voters. Precinct 59 (H54), which votes at Marion Township Hall in southwest Douglas County, had the highest percentage of Trump voters.
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Water rates will be balancing act for city leaders
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t doesn’t exactly take Sherlock Holmes and his goofy hat to uncover evidence that Lawrence is quite a bit different from the rest of Kansas. The recent presidential election results were the latest exhibit of how different Lawrence is, with Clinton winning big in Lawrence and Trump winning nearly everywhere else in Kansas. But what sometimes doesn’t get much attention is just how different Lawrence is from the rest of Douglas County. An analysis Nov. 8’s Trump’s of presidenworst area tial returns in the rest shows that the national of Douglas trend of an urban-rural County among was signifi- split Clinton and cantly bet- Trump was ter than his in full force in Douglas best area County, too. Here’s one inside the of figures Lawrence set to drive that city limits. home: The largest vote percentage Trump received in any Lawrence precinct (technically any Lawrence precinct with at least 100 ballots) was 34.9 percent in precinct No. 49, which is the area in west Lawrence around the Corpus Christi Church. In the precincts outside the Lawrence city limits, the lowest vote percentage Trump received was 41 percent in Precinct 67, which is the area along U.S. Highway 59 that generally includes the Pleasant Grove area south of Wells Overlook Road.
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Meet the ‘lead advocate’ for undergraduates at KU By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com
Burns-Wallace
DeAngela Burns-Wallace was a black teen from the inner city who went to a predominantly white Catholic high school and had a love for languages
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and all things international. It was her undergraduate years at Stanford University where that all came together, she said — where she learned to be “that black intellectual woman.”
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“Stanford was the first place that I felt like I didn’t have to choose between my identities,” Burns-Wallace said. “Higher education can and should be that for every undergraduate when they walk in that space
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— ‘how do I learn who I am?’” Now, Burns-Wallace, 42, is in her first year as vice provost for undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas.
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