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ST. JOHN CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WATCH AS CREWS MOVE THE FORMER SISTERS OF CHARITY CONVENT from its original location near 12th and Kentucky streets to 1229 Vermont St. on Wednesday. With the house moved, St. John can begin building a full-size gymnasium at the site.

ST. JOHN SCHOOL LIFTS OFF Parish moves house to make room for renovations

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t. John Catholic School’s much-anticipated $3.3 million renovation is finally off the ground, both figuratively and literally.

Crews on Monday morning entered the project’s first phase by picking up and moving “The Convent,” as it’s lovingly known in the St. John community, from its original location near 12th and Kentucky streets to 1229 Vermont St. The former Sisters of Charity Convent (in recent years, it’s been used as additional meeting space for the parish) now sits snugly between the school and St. John’s existing parish center.

“This is the first big piece,” said Samantha Romero, director of stewardship and development at St. John. Moving “The Convent,” which will receive minor upgrades (new carpet, paint and such) as part of the renovations, allows the school to move

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THE HOUSE IS SHOWN RESTING ON STEEL SUPPORTS above its new foundation after the move. ahead with building a new full-sized gymnasium where the old house once stood.

Other improvements include the conversion of St. John’s current gym into an arts center that Romero says will better serve the school’s expanded visual and performing arts programs.

The new center, slated for completion by winter 2017, will include a stage and seating, lighting and sound systems, a catering kitchen and a permanent display area for student artwork.

So far, St. John has raised about $2.6 million of its total budget for the project.

It’s enough for crews to get started while the fundraising campaign continues, Romero said.

Originally, it was suggested that “The Convent” be torn down to make way for the school’s new gym.

But one St. John parishioner, an architect, saw the value in the old house. And after a feasibility study was conducted and its results were shared with the St. John congregation, fellow parishioners “resoundingly” agreed, Romero said.

Measurements were taken and, sure enough, the building fit nicely between the school and St. John’s parish center.

“We’re preserving it, which is true to this particular parish,” Romero said.

“We’re very big on preserving our history and where we come from, and this will allow us to do that and get the project done.”

— K-12 education reporter Joanna Hlavacek can be reached at 832-6388. Follow her on Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

Sales tax renewal will be big part of city budget talks

By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

Among the questions that could go before Lawrence voters this year is whether three city sales taxes that support infrastructure and transit should be allowed to expire.

Combined, the sales taxes total .55 percent and generate millions annually. If not renewed by Lawrence voters, the taxes will sunset in March 2019. City Manager

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Tom Markus said given how important the renewal is, the City Commission will be asked to consider a course to take as part of budget discussions this spring.

“It just all makes sense, rolling it together with our budget and financial projec-

tions,” Markus said.

The three sales taxes, which are in addition to the 1 percent general city sales tax, generated $9.7 million to support infrastructure and transit in 2016.

Vice Mayor Stuart Boley said that whether to renew

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the tax and exactly how that money should be spent should be carefully thought out. He said it’s a decision that can’t be isolated from state tax policy and the city’s ongoing strategic planning process.

“It’s a lot of money, and we don’t want to make any hasty decisions,” Boley said. “…To a certain extent, what we have to do is take a look at where are we today in 2017 going forward for the next 10 years.”

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House bill identical to one voted down Tuesday in Senate

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A Kansas House committee heard impassioned testimony Wednesday on a bill that would allow public colleges, universities and other local LEGISLATURE governments to continue barring Inside: people from car- Budget rying concealed talks begin; weapons in pub- January tax lic buildings. collections The hearing top official came one day forecast. 3A after a Senate committee voted down an identical bill.

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University of Kansas men’s basketball player Carlton Bragg Jr. is now on diversion in his drug paraphernalia case.

The diversion was granted on Wednesday through Lawrence Municipal Court, Bragg according to the court. A charge of possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor, had been entered against Bragg on Monday.

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Civil Air Patrol officer out after post targeting legislator Topeka (ap) — A lieutenant colonel in Kansas’ Civil Air Patrol has resigned his command after posting on Facebook that a state lawmaker should “swing from a tree” for introducing a bill that would undo a law allowing concealed weapons on college campuses starting in July.

The Civil Air Patrol, a volunteer group that conducts emergency searches, among other things, said in a statement late Tuesday that it also sus-

Wrote that she should ‘swing from a tree’ for proposing campus carry rollback pended Jonathan Holder from its membership, pending an investigation, as it “does not condone such behavior from its members, especially one in a leadership position.”

In his post, which was later removed, Holder wrote that he was offended that Republican

Rep. Stephanie Clayton, of Overland Park, proposed legislation that he thinks would undermine his constitutional rights and suggested she should “swing from a tree” — a reference to hanging.

Overland Park Police Officer John Lacy said the case remains under in-

vestigation. No charges have been filed.

Holder, who commanded a squadron based at a Kansas National Guard Armory in Emporia, didn’t respond to an email Wednesday from The Associated Press.

But he reasserted his position Monday in a Face-

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Similar to the Senate hearing last week, an overflow crowd turned out to testify on the bill, forcing many people to stand outside the hearing room listening through a loudspeaker or watching any number of live streams that people inside were posting on social media.

The vast majority of those who testified were from campus faculty and student organizations, hospitals, nursing homes and the general public speaking in favor of the bill.

“All of us have the right to decide if, when and how we want weapons to enter our homes. Residents of nursing homes must not and should not be treated any differently,” said Rachel Monger of LeadingAge Kansas, which represents nonprofit nursing homes, including municipally owned adult care homes.

Under a law passed in 2013, nearly all government-owned facilities in Kansas must begin allowing people to carry concealed firearms into their buildings starting July 1 unless the governing bodies that operate those buildings provide adequate security to ensure that no one can bring in weapons.

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AN OVERFLOW CROWD STANDS OUTSIDE THE OLD SUPREME COURTROOM of the Statehouse on Wednesday as a House committee hears testimony on a bill to repeal a law allowing people to carry concealed weapons on college and university campuses, public hospitals and other governmentowned buildings. nitely.

A survey conducted last year by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University found that 70 percent of the faculty and staff at Kansas Regents universities supported changing current law so that handguns are not allowed inside campus buildings.

At the University of Kansas, officials said recently that they plan to spend about $1 million on security equipment to keep guns out of athletic events at Allen Fieldhouse and Memorial Stadium.

Jo Ella Hoye, Lenexa, from the group Kansas Moms Demand Action, said she and many other parents would not allow their children to go to

college in Kansas if concealed weapons are allowed on campuses.

“I am disappointed that my son won’t be able to attend the University of Kansas or other public colleges and universities in our state some day due to the risks that guns on campus would create,” she said.

Only three people showed up to speak against the bill, including a National Rifle Association lobbyist.

Unlike last week’s Senate committee hearing, House committee members engaged directly with those who testified, asking questions and even challenging them on points they had tried to make.

Rep. Blake Carpenter, R-Derby, for example,

When combined with the county and state’s sales tax rates, Lawrence residents pay 9.05 percent on their purchases, which in Kansas includes groceries. Boley said he thinks the commission also needs to consider how sales tax affects the city’s lower-income residents.

“The sales tax is a regressive tax,” Boley said.

“It hits the people with the least ability to pay the hardest. And I think for a lot of people, taxing groceries is a big deal.”

gic planning process. As part of the commission’s strategic plan, the city will determine what its core services are.

Boley said that is the first question that needs to be answered when considering the renewal.

“What does the community want us to provide in the way of core services?”

Boley said. “How are we going to pay for them?”

That conversation is likely to have particularly high stakes for the city’s transit service, also known as the T. The transit service operations currently are funded almost entirely by the sales taxes that are set to expire in 2019.

Defining core services Wrapped up in the sales tax renewal question is what services the city should continue to support.

The sales tax was passed with strong support from voters in a citywide election in 2008.

Almost three-quarters of city voters, or 73 percent, approved the measure.

About half of the three additional taxes, or .25 percent, go toward transit, funding either the transit system’s operations or transit expansion, which could include funding a transit hub or the purchase of buses and shelters. The remaining .3 percent goes toward the city’s road and infrastructure repair.

Boley, who is a retired auditor with the Internal Revenue Service, said the decision on the sales tax renewal is part of larger decisions the commission is considering as part of its budgetary and strate-

Other ballot measures Ultimately, the decision will go to Lawrence voters, and it will likely have company.

The city’s sales tax renewal wouldn’t be the only tax measure that local voters are asked to consider in the next one to two years. Already the Lawrence school district has scheduled a bond issue election that would require a property tax increase, and the Douglas County commission may seek a tax increase for a jail expansion and crisis intervention center project.

In an election May 2, voters will be asked to support an $87 million bond issue to renovate and expand the school district’s secondary schools, with emphasis going toward aging Lawrence High School. If approved, that measure would likely increase property taxes by about 2.4 mills. The Douglas County Commission

is also considering a $30 million to $40 million tax increase for jail and mental health improvements, though it is unclear when that measure will go before the public.

Markus said the other measures are a factor, which is why he wants the commission to determine the calendar as part of the budget.

“I think that you don’t want to overwhelm people with all of those initiatives,” Markus said. “You could argue both ways, that they should all be on one election so people can vote what they think the most important priority is, or you can spread them out.”

At this point, Boley said he didn’t think the question of a city sales tax renewal would necessarily have to be put to voters this year, and could potentially wait until November 2018.

“Not unless we’re ready,” Boley said. “We’ve got this huge conversation that we’re going through on these things, and these things take time. People have to have a chance to learn and think about things and then make their decisions.”

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Transit hub When it comes to the city’s public transit, a key part of the equation is the future of a central transit hub.

Determining a location for the transit hub generated ample local debate, with several locations being suggested and ultimately ruled out.

At one point, the city was considering locating a $30 million multimodal

break out in the hearing room.

Rep. Kristey Williams, R-Augusta, for example, asked how hospitals and nursing homes are ensuring security for their patients and residents now, other than posting signs that say guns are not allowed.

Chad Austin of the Kansas Hospital Association said local hospitals have developed their own individual procedures and only a small number have chosen to allow guns inside.

“If you do allow this, there are some legal questions as to what happens when someone comes to the emergency room. Are we allowed to go ahead and disarm that individual before we treat them?” he said. “There are some federal aspects related to that with EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Those are the things that are going on, and so each of the hospitals has been trying to prepare for it as we get to July 1.”

Committee chairman Rep. John Barker, RAbilene, said he planned to give the committee “plenty of time” to read through and digest the voluminous written testimony that was submitted, and he indicated he did not plan to bring the bill up for a vote in the committee in the immediate future.

transit hub near the University of Kansas’ Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center. That plan was abandoned last year after the city failed to win a federal transportation grant that would have covered half of the project’s cost.

Because the transit hub didn’t go forward when expected, Markus said the city’s transit fund has a sizable balance, and that the fate of the hub proposal makes a difference in the sales tax renewal decision.

Markus said city staff are still considering potential locations, and that the goal is to have those options in front of the commissioners when they make the budget and sales tax decisions.

“At some point, we’ll bring it back to the commission and kind of lay out some options for them and try to get some direction moving forward,” Markus said.

“Hopefully, that all occurs within the context of the budget process.”

increased revenues from new construction or annexation of new territory.

The tax lid puts new limitations on how much Lawrence can raise from property taxes in a time when the funding ratio between property taxes and sales taxes is already uneven. For instance, in the 2017 budget, about 40 percent of the city’s general fund revenue came from sales taxes and about 25 percent from property taxes.

Boley said the local elements and the outside factors are all part of the BIRTHS decision that the commisLeigh Asher Stearns sion and the public need Christopher Michael to make regarding the and Dellasega, Lawrence, a boy, sales tax renewal.

Wednesday.

“They’re going to sunset in 2019,” Boley said.

“We need to figure out what we’re going to do.

Frankly, we as a community need to figure out what we’re going to do.”

The City Commission typically begins budget discussions for the upcoming year the first week in May.

Other considerations The decision regarding the sales tax renewal is also intertwined with other funding issues the city is encountering, including the state-imposed tax lid and what sources the city draws on to fund its operations.

State lawmakers recently imposed a property tax lid on cities and counties. The tax policy, which went into effect in January, requires cities and counties to get voter approval before increasing property tax revenues from one year to the next beyond the rate of inflation. The policy includes some exemptions, such as

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asked supporters of the bill, “In your belief, is the Second Amendment a privilege or a right?”

“I think that Justice (Antonin) Scalia said in the (District of Columbia v.) Heller decision that it was within the rights of the states to limit public carrying of weapons, and he specifically mentioned schools and public buildings,” said Rabbi Moti Rieber of Kansas Interfaith Action.

The Heller case was a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a Washington, D.C., ordinance that banned the possession of handguns in the district. It also established that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a personal right to bear arms, as opposed to a collective, societal right.

There were challenges to people who opposed the bill as well. Jay Atkins, an opponent of the bill who didn’t identify where he was from, also referred to Scalia’s decision in the Heller case during his testimony, and Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence, challenged him on that issue.

“Isn’t it true in the Heller decision that the Supreme Court and Justice Scalia pretty clearly acknowledged that states have the right to ban concealed weapons in public places?” Highberger asked.

“I don’t agree with that particular portion of the ruling,” Atkins said, prompting laughter to

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Senators not pleased with Brownback’s plans for KPERS, K-12

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Republicans and Democrats alike on the Senate budget committee said Wednesday that they are uncomfortable with significant parts of Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan for balancing the current fiscal year’s budget, including his plan to delay payments to public school districts and reduce contributions into the

Budget talks begin; January tax collections top estimates by $24M state pension plan.

“Those are kind of the things we need to stop doing,” committee chairwoman Sen. Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, said after a hearing on the plan Wednesday.

Sen. Laura Kelly, of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the panel, said there is hardly any-

thing in the governor’s balancing plan that she’s willing to accept.

“I think you have to scrap pretty much everything but the borrowing of investment money over at KPERS,” she said.

That was a reference to Brownback’s proposal to sell

off $362 million from state idle funds that are invested in the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System fund. That includes about $45 million in accrued earnings on those investments. The remaining $317 million would be a loan that the state would have to pay back over seven years.

Ambulance service begins in Eudora

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Lt. Nick Simon was far from busy on Wednesday, the inaugural day for ambulance service in Eudora. He had been on duty about nine hours at the Eudora Public Safety Building and had not yet left on a call.

“I expect we’ll be busy soon,” Simon said. “Eudora’s good for two or three calls a day.”

The actual number was 1.7 calls per day, Eudora Fire Chief Ken Keiter said.

He should know. Keiter collected such data over the last three years as the city of Eudora requested that the Douglas County Commission

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I don’t care that (the ambulance is) not brand new as long as it’s here and fully staffed. The community has anticipated this day for a long time.”

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expand ambulance service in the growing eastern Douglas County community and the eastern part of the county.

The work of Keiter, the Eudora City Commission and city staff paid off last July when the County Commission agreed to introduce a fully staffed ambulance service in Eudora and include a new ambulance and needed equipment for the expansion in the county’s 2017 budget.

Thanks to years of planning and the availability of the spa-

Keiter was more than happy with the reserve ambulance that was provided to serve the city in the meantime.

“I don’t care that it’s not brand new as long as it’s here and fully staffed,” he said.

“The community has anticipated this day for a long time.”

There will be a ceremony for the new service at 3 p.m.

Feb. 28 at the Eudora Public Safety Building, 930 Main St. Eudora City and Douglas County commissioners, Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Chief Ken Bradford and Keiter will be in attendance.

cious 3 1/2-year-old Public Safety Building to house the ambulance and its rotating crews, the introduction of the service went smoothly, Keiter said. The service’s rollout was delayed by only a month to give the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical time to hire and train a new crew.

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Chief Mark Bradford said the new ambulance that will be permanently stationed in Eudora won’t be de- — County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166. Follow him on Twitter: @ElvynJ livered until mid-summer, but

County’s next big road project could last into 2018

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

Douglas County’s big road project for this year, a series of improvements to West County Road 458, won’t start until late May and might not be completed until the spring of 2018, county commission-

ers were told Wednesday.

The project, with an estimated $3.4 million price tag, COUNTY COMMISSION is slated for a 5-mile section of CR 458 from East 800 Road north of Lone Star east and

north to near its junction with North 1150 Road. Work will include replacement of undersized culverts, installation of paved shoulders, pavement resurfacing and flattening of roadway slopes. Three 40 mph curves on the section will be altered to accommodate 55 mph traffic. The section to be

improved is the only part of CR 458 west of U.S. Highway 59 without the upgrades.

Douglas County Public Works Director Keith Browning had previously cautioned commissioners that a great deal of work needed to be

Wednesday’s hearing began amid some good budget news because the Kansas Department of Revenue reported Wednesday morning that state tax collections in January came in $24 million above official estimates.

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Man accused of selling counterfeit detergent

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Last May, a number of law enforcement officers converged upon a house in rural Douglas County for a raid.

Special Agent Randy Slater of the Kansas Attorney General’s Office testified in court on Tuesday that he was present during the raid alongside a representative of the Department of Homeland Security and others.

The officers weren’t looking for drugs, guns, cash or an underground fight club.

Rather, they were looking for soap. Laundry detergent, to be precise.

The officials were concerned that Brian Glenn, owner and operator of Clean Start Soap Sales, was selling laundry detergent in his home and falsely presenting it as Tide-brand detergent.

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significantly higher than first estimated, necessitating the redesign of sections of the project, he said.

Browning said a review appraiser was now evaluating the county’s initial appraisal of the project’s right of way. The county won’t be able to make official offers for the easements until that process is complete, he said, but it has contacted most property owners and made informal offers for some right of way.

Work on the project will start with replacement

of culverts and bridges, which will require the road’s closure and use of a detour route, Browning said. Emergency responders will be informed of a faster route, he said.

Once the culverts and bridges are replaced, improvements to the road and shoulder will be completed first on the south and east side of the roadway, Browning said.

Once those are complete, he said, work on the north and west side will begin.

While that construction work is taking place, traffic on the road will be reduced to one lane, Browning said.

The County Commission approved Wednesday the banning of bicycles in the CR 458 construction zone. County Administrator Craig Weinaug, an avid bicyclist, said many leaders in the bicycle community understood the onelane construction zone would be unsafe to ride in.

Slater said. But the distinction wasn’t specifically made again as they spoke.

When asked by defense attorney Cooper Overstreet, Slater acknowledged that Glenn made no attempts to make his business a secret, nor did he believe he was selling a fake or inferior product.

Slater said he believed Glenn sold the detergents, among other products, at a local flea market, to individuals, and he distributed them to other salespeople.

Lynne Miller, senior counsel for Procter & Gamble, the company that owns Tide, testified Wednesday morning alongside Slater.

Miller said her work focuses on trademark infringement and counterfeiting issues. She was also present during the May raid on Glenn’s house.

Approximating the suggested retail price for Tide, Miller said the dozens of five-gallon buckets

of detergent seized from Glenn’s home would be worth more than $3,000.

At no time did Glenn ever obtain a license to use Tide’s trademark, called The Bullseye, Miller said.

In addition, Sol Escobar, a senior engineer for Procter & Gamble, testified that the detergent Glenn was selling was significantly different from the company’s authentic Tide products.

Overstreet and prosecutor Steven Karrer did not make closing arguments during Wednesday’s hearing. Rather, citing the complicated legal references they anticipated would come up, they requested that Martin allow them to submit written arguments.

Martin granted the request and scheduled the hearing to continue at 1:30 p.m. March 24, when she will announce her decision on whether Glenn will face a criminal trial.

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done regarding utility relocation and right-of-way acquisition before construction on the project could start. On Wednesday, he told commissioners that construction on the project would probably start in late May and wrap up for the season in November at a logical point. Remaining work would be completed in the spring of 2018.

After the meeting, Browning said the goal would be to complete all but the final overlay of asphalt on the project before work ends for the year.

Browning said he would bring cost estimates for utility relocation, rightof-way acquisition and construction to share with commissioners at their Feb. 8 meeting. The costs for utility relocation were

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Dozens of buckets of the detergent were seized during the raid, and now Glenn faces a single felony count of counterfeiting in Douglas County District Court.

Wednesday morning, Glenn appeared in court for a preliminary hearing where witnesses offered testimony to Judge Paula Martin, who will consider whether Glenn should face a criminal trial.

Slater was one of those who testified. He said he went undercover and visited Glenn’s home in rural Baldwin City in April.

There, Slater said Glenn gave him a small sample of detergent labeled “T.O.” for “Tide Original.”

At one point in the conversation, Glenn referred to the products as “Tide-like,”

Douglas County Public Works staff will meet with residents about this year’s planned improvements to West County Road 458 from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Wakarusa Valley Elementary School, 104 East 1000 Road.

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When war broke out in Europe in 1914, the U.S. stood on the sidelines as President Wilson asked his fellow citizens to remain neutral “in thought as well as in deed.” Michael Neiberg, noted scholar and chair of war studies in the U.S. Army War College, introduces the 2017 Presidential Lecture Series, exploring the complex paths of politics, economics and cultural divisions that came together and brought America into the war in 1917.

A GIANT WITH FEET OF CLAY: THE AMERICAN MILITARY IN THE GREAT WAR Thursday, Feb. 9 - 7 p.m.

The story of how the U.S.Army sought to transform itself over the course of 18 months into a comparable or superior military force to the European armies is grounded in irony. Richard Faulkner, professor with the U.S.Army Command and General Staff College, lays out how the American Expeditionary Forces played a pivotal role in the brutal campaigns that led to Germany’s defeat on the battlefield.

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In America,World War I brought expanded involvement in global politics, the experience of modern warfare—and equally important domestic changes. Noted scholar from Chapman College Jennifer Keene will discuss the responses of Americans to the introduction of the draft, economic mobilization, the patriotism crusade and its effects and much more.

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A closer look at exemptions Amid a state budget crisis, lawmakers need to scrutinize the breaks that farmers are getting.

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f legislators hope to address the state’s fiscal woes, they likely will have to find the political courage to ask farmers to pay more in taxes and fees.

The state faces a deficit of nearly $1 billion over the next two fiscal years, and legislators are tasked with coming up with a plan to fix the problem. There are two options: increase revenues or cut expenses. But after multiple years of slashing line items in the state’s budget, there aren’t many expenses left to cut.

That leaves lawmakers with the task of revisiting the state’s tax policies, where few groups enjoy the number of tax breaks and outright exemptions that farmers do.

Consider, for example, the controversial LLC exemption, passed in 2012. The law exempts from state taxes income that is earned from pass-through entities such as limited liability companies, partnerships and sole proprietorships. The exemption affects 330,000 entities in the state, including 60,000 farm operations, and costs the state an estimated $250 million in tax revenues each year.

Farmers also are exempt from paying sales taxes on purchases of farm machinery and equipment or personal property taxes on such items. And agricultural land is taxed at a lower rate than residential or commercial property.

Finally, as the state seeks to find $43 million per year to fund the State Water Plan Fund to conserve and protect the state’s water resources, legislators are considering increasing fees on residential and commercial users. Who isn’t being asked to pay more? Kansas farmers, who are exempt from paying into the fund, even though agricultural irrigation accounts for 80 to 85 percent of the state’s water use.

One reason farmers continue to enjoy such exemptions is the strong lineup of groups lobbying on behalf of agricultural interests in Kansas. Groups like the Kansas Farm Bureau, Kansas Livestock Association, Kansas Corn Growers Association and the Kansas Pork Association have converged on the capital to protect current farm exemptions.

They argue that farmers do contribute taxes and fees, despite the fact that farm income continues to decrease in Kansas.

There are 15,000 fewer farms in Kansas now than there were in 1980 and new taxes and fees could force more farm operations out of the business. No one wants that.

But a $1 billion hole is a serious problem that requires lawmakers to ask everyone to contribute to solving. That should include asking the state’s farm operations to contribute more.

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Travel ban a national embarrassment I have never been more embarrassed for this country.

Under the rubric of protecting Americans from terrorism, the Trump regime last week banned travel into the United States by people from seven majority-Muslim nations. And never mind that experts, including the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank, say the combined U.S. death toll in terrorist attacks from citizens of those nations is zero since 1975.

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Progressives need to stop taking boxing gloves to a knife fight. What is at stake here is not any one ideology, but reason itself, decency itself. A muscular and consistent resistance is required now.”

Trump’s ban created predictable chaos around the world. Watching the stranded travelers and bewildered families, I kept wishing I could apologize to those whose lives, careers and plans were thrown into needless turmoil because a minority of American voters chose to invest a fearmongering man-baby with the awesome powers of the presidency.

That includes Nisrin Omer, a Sudanese woman who has lived in the United States since 1993. She told The New York Times she was handcuffed, searched

and interrogated for five hours as she returned from Sudan, where she was doing research for a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

It also includes Sarvin Haghighi, an Iranian woman who wound up stranded in Australia after visiting family there. Her husband, a U.S. citizen named Andrew Culley, told Al-Jazeera she was first admitted to this country only after three and a half years of vetting by the Department of Homeland Security.

Most of all, I wished I could apologize to Hameed Khalid Darwish, a 59-year-old Iraqi man who was handcuffed and spent nearly 19 hours in detention at Kennedy Airport.

Over 10 years, Darwish — at grave risk to himself and his family — worked with U.S. military personnel in Iraq as a translator and contractor. For a man who put himself on the line to further American interests and safeguard American lives to be treated like that upon arriving on American soil is shabby beyond be-

lief. Of course, shabbiness is a hallmark of the new regime.

The one heartening thing in this is that the detentions sparked such a great outcry, with mass protests erupting at airports across the country. Taken in conjunction with the Women’s March that brought huge numbers to Washington a week and a half ago and inspired echoes across the country and around the world, it seems not unreasonable to hope that we are seeing the birth of a mass movement here.

It’s darn well about time.

Over the last 25 years, as conservatism has mutated from a respectable ideology to a cult of perpetual lunacy, progressivism has been marked by an often milquetoast unwillingness to fight for its own values.

The tea party organized, demonstrated and became a force in Congress. Progressives wrote think pieces, shared snarky tweets and complained.

These were people whose forebears once took to the

streets to stand down racism, sexism, imperialism and homophobia.

Now — especially in Congress — they were people who were routinely left standing with their figurative pants yanked down around their metaphorical ankles.

Well, progressives need to stop taking boxing gloves to a knife fight. What is at stake here is not any one ideology, but reason itself, decency itself. A muscular and consistent resistance is required now. Pray God, that’s what’s taking shape.

Darwish, by the way, went free Saturday after lawyers filed a writ of habeas corpus. “America is the land of freedom,” he told reporters after his detention. “... America is the greatest nation, the greatest people in the world.”

He spoke without irony.

He meant it from his heart.

And that may have been the most embarrassing thing of all.

— Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

Where Justice Scalia was wrong Washington — With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence,” but “there is no such philosophizing in our Constitution,” which is “a practical and pragmatic charter of government.” Scalia was wrong, and much depends on Neil Gorsuch not resembling Scalia in this regard.

Gorsuch can endorse Scalia’s originalism, construing the Constitution’s text and structure as it was understood by its Framers and ratifiers, without embracing Scalia’s misunderstanding of this: There is no philosophizing in the Constitution — until the Founders’ philosophy is infused into it by construing the document as a charter of government for a nation that is, in Lincoln’s formulation, dedicated to a proposition that Scalia implicitly disparaged as impractical and unpragmatic. The proposition is that all persons are created equal in their possession of natural rights, to “secure” which — the Declaration’s word — the government is instituted. In Lincoln’s formulation, the Constitution is the “frame of silver” for the “apple of gold” that is the Declaration. Silver is valuable and frames are important, but gold is more precious and frames derive their importance from what they frame.

The drama of American democracy derives from the tension between the natural rights of the individual and the constructed right of the community to make such laws as the majority desires.

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The drama of American democracy derives from the tension between the natural rights of the individual and the constructed right of the community to make such laws as the majority desires.”

Natural rights are affirmed by the Declaration; majority rule, circumscribed and modulated, is constructed by the Constitution and a properly engaged judiciary is duty-bound to declare majority acts invalid when they abridge natural rights.

In Justice Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing, she was asked if she believes there are natural rights that are not among the rights the Constitution enumerates.

She replied: “I don’t have a view of what are natural rights, independent of the Constitution.” Using a foggy double negative, she added: “I’m not saying I do not believe that there are rights pre-existing the Constitution and the laws, but my job as a justice is to enforce the Constitution and the laws.”

And: “I think that the question of what I believe as to what people’s rights are outside the Constitution and

the laws — that you should not want me to act in any way on the basis of such a belief.”

Well.

Natural rights, which are grounded in nature, are thus “independent of” the Constitution. They are not, however, “outside” of it because its paramount purpose is the protection of those rights.

The Ninth Amendment says: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” If you believe, as Robert Bork did, that this amendment is a meaningless “inkblot” you must believe that the Framers were slapdash draftsmen about this, and only this, provision. Scalia believed that “the whole theory of democracy ... is that the majority rules. ... You protect minorities only because the majority determines that there are certain minority positions that deserve protection. ... The minority loses, except to the extent that the majority, in its document of government, has agreed to accord the minority rights.”

If that is the “whole theory” of democracy, then democratic theory is uninteresting. What is interesting begins with the institutional and cultural measures necessary to increase the likelihood that majorities will be reasonable and respectful of the natural rights of those in the minority. It is the judiciary’s job to construe the “document of government” — the frame of silver — in the light cast by the apple of gold.

With the Declaration, Americans ceased claiming

the rights of aggrieved Englishmen and began asserting rights that are universal because they are natural, meaning necessary for the flourishing of human nature.

The Constitution is America’s fundamental law but not its first law. The Declaration appears on Page 1 of Volume 1 of the U.S. Statutes at Large and it is at the head of the United States Code under the caption “The Organic Laws of the United States.”

Since the 1864 admission of Nevada to statehood, every state’s admission has been conditioned on adoption of a constitution consistent with the U.S. Constitution — and the Declaration.

The Constitutional Convention met in the room where the Declaration was debated and endorsed, and the Constitution implements what the Declaration initiated. Gorsuch will occupy much of the jurisprudential space Scalia so admirably did. But having earned a doctorate in philosophy and jurisprudence at Oxford studying under John Finnis, author of the book “Natural Law and Natural Rights,” perhaps Gorsuch will effect a philosophic correction.

— George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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But that reduced only slightly the size of the budget hole lawmakers now must fill to roughly $320 million, the difference between how much the state has budgeted to spend this year and how much revenue it actually expects to receive.

Still, Kelly said that means that if revenues continue meeting or exceeding estimates through June 30, the plan for liquidating idle funds held at KPERS could be enough to get the state through this fiscal year without budget cuts or any of the other things Brownback has proposed.

Among those would be to “permanently delay” a $75 million payment to public schools, which involves

making that payment in early July, after the new fiscal year begins, instead of in June when it is actually due.

Budget director Shawn Sullivan noted that the state has done that routinely for about the last 15 years, and the amount currently rolled over from one year to the next is currently about $200 million. Brownback’s proposal would raise that to about $275 million.

Under a law that the Legislature passed years ago to accommodate that practice, school districts are allowed to effectively “back-date” the payment by recording it on their books as having been received in the fiscal year when it was due, even though it was actually received the following year.

Another of Brownback’s proposals is to not repay a $92 million quarterly payment into the KPERS fund that was delayed in 2016 and also to

cancel one quarterly payment into the fund each of the next two years.

Budget officials say that would save the state $85.9 million this fiscal year.

But KPERS officials say the long-term impact of the whole plan would be to add $1.3 billion onto the system’s unfunded liability, which currently stands at around $8.5 billion.

In his State of the State address in January, Brownback urged lawmakers to deliver a budget-balancing bill to his desk by the end of that month.

But Wednesday was the day the Senate Ways and Means Committee formally started working on the bill. The House Appropriations Committee is expected to start working on the bill next week.

diversion agreement, a judge can revoke the diversion and reinstate the charge, Hafoka said.

Conditions of Bragg’s agreement were not immediately available.

Possession of drug paraphernalia is punishable by a fine of up to $2,500 and a jail sentence up to one year, according to Lawrence city ordinance.

Bragg, 21, is a sophomore from Cleveland.

KU men’s basketball coach Bill Self announced Jan. 26 that Bragg was suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules.

Self said Monday that the suspension would definitely remain in place for Wednesday’s home game against Baylor.

On Friday, KU police said one person was facing a drug paraphernalia charge

in a case that stemmed from a rape investigation at McCarthy Hall, 1741 Naismith Drive, the on-campus building where KU men’s basketball players and other male upperclass or transfer students live. The name of the suspect in the drug paraphernalia case, Bragg, became public Monday.

During the KU police department’s investigation of the alleged sexual assault at McCarthy Hall and a subsequent search, drug paraphernalia was found, KU police said. KU Police Chief Chris Keary reiterated this week that there was no indication the drug paraphernalia is related to the sexual assault allegation.

The rape investigation remains open, and police have released no information on a possible suspect.

— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock can be reached at 354-4222. Follow him on Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

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The city’s diversion application lists factors considered for eligibility including the nature of the crime, whether the defendant is a first-time offender and recommendations of law enforcement.

Supervising city prosecutor Elizabeth Hafoka said granting the diversion for Bragg was consistent with those.

“We handled this like any other case,” she said.

“We looked at our criteria, we reviewed everything and made the decision that it was an appropriate resolution.”

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Auto sales stall in January

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USA TODAY NETWORK EXCLUSIVE

Proposed bills stifle free speech, critics say They see national trend trying to muzzle protests John C. Moritz

Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times

In North Dakota, motorists who run into demonstrators on public streets would be exempt from prosecution, even if someone is injured or killed, as long as the motorist did not purposely hit the victim.

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In Minnesota, demonstrators who break the law would be liable for the cost of law enforcement.

In Iowa, blocking traffic on a highway would be a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

Civil libertarians and First Amendment scholars said these proposed measures are part of a national trend to stifle public debate and criminalize the constitutional exercise of free speech.

They said bills in statehouses from Washington to Virginia seek not only to stifle free speech but also encourage vigilante justice from those who disagree with

THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC

Terry Gunn, 63, protests at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.

demonstrators.

Protests have mounted nationally, from women’s marches that clogged streets in cities large and small, to demonstrations at airports around the country over the weekend in response to President Trump’s travel restrictions, to the long-running oil pipeline protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

“This goes beyond having a chilling effect on free speech, it puts a freeze on it,” said James Harrington, a veteran civil rights attorney in Texas who began joining demonstrations for civil rights and against the Vietnam

War in the 1960s.

Backers of the bills argued the measures are needed to control protests, which can block major roadways and incite violence.

Minnesota state Rep. Nick Zerwas, a Republican from a suburb near Minneapolis, said he was simply trying to help cashstrapped communities that have been badgered by out-of-control protests over the past 18 months.

The protests came in response to the police shooting of Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July. v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

USA TODAY EXCLUSIVE

SAFIN HAMED, AFP/GETTY IMAGES

A displaced Iraqi girl, who fled the violence around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, looks out a window on a bus last Wednesday in the Khazer refugee camp near Irbil.

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ISIL HAS CHOKEHOLD ON CIVILIANS IN MOSUL Hundreds of thousands face starvation, beatings, execution Igor Kossov

Special for USA TODAY The first Thursday in February,

“Fall off the Wagon Day,”

is the day when the uptick in visits to fast-food joints meets the downturn in visits to gyms.

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IRBIL , IRAQ About 750,000 civilians trapped in western Mosul by the Islamic State face beatings, executions, starvation and forced military conscription of children as they wait desperately for Iraqi troops to free them.

Residents who recently escaped to liberated eastern Mosul across the Tigris River said

cruel punishments such as flogging for minor infractions are growing along with executions as the militants prepare for a showdown against advancing Iraqi troops.

More civilians are being forcibly drafted into Islamic State ranks, including children, and some people risk death by trying to cross the Tigris to secure food for their starving families, according to residents who fled.

The Islamic State “became more crazy” as Iraqi forces advanced in the city, said Ammar

“If your beard is not perfect, they beat you. If they suspect you of moving information (to the Iraqi army), they execute you.”

Ahmed Rajb, 47, who escaped with his family on a smuggler’s rowboat. “If your beard is not perfect, they beat you. If they suspect you of moving information (to the Iraqi army), they execute you.”

Executions and beatings have gone up sharply, according to members of four families interviewed at the Khazer refugee camp outside Mosul. The family members, who escaped western Mosul within the past two weeks,

Ammar Ahmed Rajb, 47

v STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

Imported bling shows ancient ‘Lady’ was fashionista Her jewelry indicates trade across Europe Traci Watson

Special to USA TODAY

A fabulous hoard of jewelry and unprecedented objects recovered from the grave of a highranking Celtic lady who lived more than 2,500 years ago hint at far-flung trade across Europe.

Among the treasures in the grave were golden brooches, an elaborate gold-and-amber necklace and a long gold earring that

looks like 21st-century club bling.

The site, located in what is now southwestern Germany, is the earliest such “rich grave” of a Celtic woman and one of the few like it to have escaped looting, researchers said.

“We were surprised to find the grave goods were still there, even the gold, waiting for us,” said Dirk Krausse, state archaeologist of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and co-author of a new study about the finds. The intact site, he said, “opens a window through which we can see the past.”

The grave of the Lady, as the researchers call her, wasn’t the only repository of gold. Buried

YVONNE MHLEIS, OFFICE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

Gold brooches, top, were taken from the grave of the Celtic Lady, who was buried in 583 B.C. in what is now Germany, and gold earrings belonged to a little girl buried nearby, who was probably her daughter.

nearby was a 2- to 4-year-old girl, probably the Lady’s daughter, researchers reported in the latest Antiquity. The girl’s gold brooch, a child-sized version of the Lady’s, signals “the highest social rank,” Krausse said. The Lady herself, who was in her 30s, may have had a ritual or magical role, Krausse said.

Whatever her place in Celtic society, the Lady was buried in sight of the first city north of the Alps. Known as Heuneburg, it was a trade center that covered some 250 acres — more than twice the size of Vatican City — by 600 BC. It boasted exotic mudbrick architecture similar to

buildings in far-off Phoenicia on the eastern Mediterranean, and residents enjoyed luxuries from across Europe thanks to commerce on the Danube River.

Imports account for many of the Lady’s fine possessions, such as her bracelets, carved of English jet, and a 2-inch amber pendant, probably fashioned from amber collected near the Baltic or North Sea. The Lady’s grave shows that people, as well as materials, flowed in and out of Heuneburg.

Her gold beads were decorated with a technique typically used by the Etruscans, the people who lived across the Alps.

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Air Force busts down retired general Two-star demotion, retirement cut follow allegations he coerced subordinate into sex Tom Vanden Brook @tvandenbrook USA TODAY

The Air Force stripped a retired four-star general of two ranks and docked him about $60,000 per year in pension payments after determining that he had coerced sex with a subordinate officer three times and told her that he would “deny it until the day he died,” USA TODAY learned from documents and interviews.

The rare move means that retired general Arthur Lichte, who led the Air Mobility Command until 2009, will be demoted to major general and see his retirement pay dip from about $216,000 per year to $156,000. He is the latest in a string of general officers to be sacked or demoted in the past year for sex scandals.

Lichte’s actions drew a stinging rebuke in a letter of reprimand in December from Air Force Secretary Deborah James. James blasted Lichte for putting the officer WASHINGTON

“in a position in which she could have believed that she had no choice but to engage in these sex acts, given your far superior grade, position and significant ability to affect her career.”

James suggested Lichte, who is married, would have been courtmartialed, but the statute of limitations of five years had lapsed.

Lichte retired in 2010, but the Air Force began conducting an investigation in 2016 after it received a complaint from the woman.

“You are hereby reprimanded!”

James wrote, exclamation point hers, in the letter of Dec. 6, 2016.

“Your conduct is disgraceful and, but for the statute of limitations bar to prosecution, would be more appropriately addressed through the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”

Lichte’s lawyer disputed the Air Force’s account of what took place and vowed to appeal its decision.

“My client did not commit a sexual assault and vehemently denies the unsworn allegations made against him regarding consensual events that happened

CLIFF OWEN, AP

AIR FORCE

Former Air Force secretary Deborah James

Retired Air Force general Arthur Lichte

over eight years ago,” Larry Youngner said in a statement.

Lichte regrets his actions, is sorry for the pain he has caused his family and asked for privacy, Youngner said.

The acting Air Force secretary, Lisa Disbrow, said in a statement Wednesday about Lichte that all airmen, regardless of rank, would be judged equally.

“The Air Force takes all allegations of inappropriate conduct very seriously,” Disbrow said.

“We expect our leaders to uphold the highest standards of behavior.

These standards and rules underpin good order and discipline.

Airmen at every level are held accountable.”

The demotion to major general occurred because that is the last rank at which Lichte served satisfactorily. The inappropriate sex allegedly happened when he was a three- and four-star officer.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis withdrew the certification of satisfactory service from Lichte on Jan. 30 and returned the case to the Air Force to determine the highest rank in which Lichte served satisfactorily.

Lichte joins a roster of disgraced generals and admirals in the past year that includes Maj.

Gen. David Haight, the “swinging general” whose serial promiscuity saw him get stripped of three ranks and cashiered from the Army. The Army fired National Guard Brig. Gen. Michael Bobeck, a staff member for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for carrying on an extramarital affair. The Pentagon inspector general found that Army Lt. Gen. Ron Lewis, the top military aide to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, put strip-club tabs on his government credit card, got drunk and had “improper interactions with females.”

Lichte, a pilot with more than 5,000 hours experience flying a variety of military aircraft, ascended to the Air Force’s highest ranks. He led Air Mobility Command, the Air Force’s vast fleet of cargo, refueling and medical evacuation warplanes.

The heavily redacted 50-page report by the inspector general into Lichte’s case shows that he and the woman, now a colonel, had sharply differing views of their relationship. Lichte maintained that he believed their three sexual encounters, two in 2007 and one in 2009, were consensual; she felt coerced, although she did not protest or struggle with him physically.

Families who escaped tell of ISIL’s barbarity v CONTINUED FROM 1B

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About 9,000 people march from the Shelby County Courthouse to the National Civil Rights Museum in downtown Memphis during the Memphis Women’s March.

Lawmakers say communities hurt by out-of-control protests v CONTINUED FROM 1B

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should not be property taxpayers’ responsibility to cover for your illegal behavior.”

The measure, approved last week by a House committee, drew such a large and loud rebuke from protesters that further work by the panel was halted for the rest of the day. Amid cries of “shame, shame” and “shut it down” from representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement and other activists, committee members left without addressing the remaining legislation up for consideration.

Zerwas, whose bill has the backing of the Minnesota House speaker and awaits a vote before the full House, said critics read more into the legislation than its wording contains. He insisted it posed no threat to anyone’s First Amendment rights. “It wouldn’t limit anyone’s ability to legally protest,” he told the committee.

“It wouldn’t limit anyone’s ability to legally petition their government or to demonstrate.”

The bill protecting motorists who might hit demonstrators was filed by North Dakota state Rep. Keith Kempenich, a Republican who has served in the state House since 1993, in response to oil pipeline protests near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

Kempenich, a rancher, told The Washington Post in January that he filed the bill after his motherin-law’s encounter with protesters who hurled themselves into the path of her car. He was not, he said, seeking to stifle the right to peaceful assembly.

“But there’s a line between protesting and terrorism,” he told the Post. “And what we’re dealing with was terrorism out there.”

An Arizona lawmaker is pushing a measure that would punish organizers of demonstrations that escalate into a riot under state racketeering charges. That would allow authorities to go after the organizers’ financial assets.

“If somebody is funding someone to go out and cause a riot and damage property, they’ve gone beyond their First Amendment right,” said Republican state Sen. Sonny Borrelli, whose bill is scheduled to be heard in committee Thursday.

In Iowa, a state lawmaker filed legislation that would make obstructing traffic on an interstate highway a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. State Sen. Jake Chapman said the bill is in response to protests that followed the election of Donald Trump as president in November.

A bill in Washington state would define impeding commercial highway and rail traffic as “economic terrorism.”

“We know that groups are planning to disrupt our economy by conflating the right to protest with illegal activities that harm the rights of others,” the bill’s author, state Sen. Doug Ericksen, said on his website. “We need this legislation to protect the rights of all citizens.”

John Thompson, who said he was a friend of Castile’s, told Minnesota lawmakers that protests were needed to get the attention of policymakers out of touch with the black community. “We have no voice,” Thompson said. “We vote for people like you to make changes. We vote for people like you to give us hope. We vote for people like you to stand up against garbage laws like this.”

Harrington, founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, said the authors and supporters of such legislation would do well to remember not only their high school civics classes but also their history.

“The exercise of free speech knows no party line,” he said.

Contributing: William Petroski and Brianne Pfannenstiel, The Des Moines Register; Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic

said the militants slit residents’ throats or hanged them, leaving their bodies prominently displayed as a warning to everyone else.

“When under pressure, they will take it out on the civilians and place them in greater danger and enact increasingly brutal population control measures,” Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition in Baghdad, said in an interview.

Dorrian said half of the Islamic State’s estimated 3,000 to 6,000 fighters in Mosul were killed in the campaign that recently liberated eastern Mosul. Now that many of the group’s fighters and commanders are dead, the remaining militants use brutal tactics to enlist civilians.

“In some areas, they force young men to join them,” said Abd al Haq Abdelkader, 37, who moved to eastern Mosul in January. He said the militants sometimes recruit children during morning prayers at a mosque, then punish or kill fathers who refuse to let their children join.

Recruiting children is a staple of the Islamic State, which refers to them as “Cubs of the Caliphate” or “Lion Cubs.” In liberated neighborhoods of eastern Mosul near the Tigris, there were bodies of Islamic State fighters killed by coalition airstrikes and Iraqi special operations forces, and some appeared to be in their mid-teens.

Abdelkader and Rajb said some of the child recruits are orphans who have nowhere to turn for food or money. Some are as young as 8 years old.

Dorrian confirmed that the coalition is aware of child soldiers, calling the recruitment a “despicable practice.”

Civilians accused of selling cigarettes or other infractions are

jailed and let go only if they agree to be fighters, said Marwan Thamer, 33, who escaped with Rajb.

Some agree to cooperate for the militants as the only way to obtain scarce food, which the Islamic State controls. “We didn’t eat for too many days,” Abdelkader said.

“We could only mix flour and water,” Rajb said.

He said some people could not even get flour unless they worked for the militants.

Increasing numbers of people are fleeing western Mosul because of starvation, said Shamal Dawood, an IT technician at Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displacement at the Khazer camp.

Dorrian confirmed that the coalition has heard reports about low food supplies.

Escape is difficult. Families reported that a handful of smugglers take people across the river at night for $100 each. Rajb said he persuaded one smuggler, a former fisherman, to bring him and several other families across for a cheaper rate.

When they got to the other side in the freezing cold, Rajb’s son, Rayan, went toward the Iraqi lines to get help but was mistaken for a militant in the dark and shot at.

The family pinched their baby daughter until she cried. Iraqi troops heard the crying and came to get them.

Rajb said he was surprised the army gave the escaped families food, water and cigarettes.

The Islamic State told residents in the predominantly Sunni city that Iraqi troops, most Shiite Muslims, would execute Sunnis who fled, sowing fear among families in western Mosul.

“If we were shot by the army, it would not be worse than starving to death,” Rajb said.

MSTYSLAV CHERNOV, AP

Iraqi special operations forces troops walk past a tank as they prepare for the next stage in the battle for Mosul on Sunday.

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STORY STOCKS

Fast start to year bodes well for Wall Street Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

How the stock market performs in the first month of the year often signals how the rest of the year will go. Generally speaking, when stocks go up in January, the chances of stocks advancing the rest of the year also increase as the positive momentum has a habit of continuing.

A slow start to the year, on the other hand, often spells trouble.

Using that historical trend as a guide, the broad stock market’s nearly 2% gain in January could signal more gains to come.

In the years since 1950 when stocks posted gains in January, the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index posted average gains of 12.1% in the final 11 months of the

year, and the so-called, “As the S&P 500 goes in January, so goes the year” success rate was close to 90%, according to Strategas Research Partners. In contrast, the large-company stock index gained only 1.2% from the end of January until year-end, when the S&P 500 lost ground in January.

The bullish theme for 2017 gets even more upbeat when you consider that, in addition to the just-mentioned “January barometer,” two other seasonally focused prediction measures (namely, a positive return during the “Santa Claus rally” and gains posted in the first five trading days of 2017, dubbed the “early warning signal” by The Stock Trader’s Almanac) also point to a good year for stocks.

The Almanac says the “January Indicator Trifecta” has a predictive power considerably greater than any of them individually.

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Three months after a recall, the action camera maker’s Karma drone is back. GoPro says it has fixed the sudden power loss issue. With some analysts thinking GoPro has missed a chance to claim a bigger share of the market, shares reversed early jump.

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A proposed tax on imports could boost the automaker since it relies the least on imported vehicles, along with Honda Motor and General Motors.

About 79% of domestic vehicle sales were built in the U.S. Shares slid after weak January sales report.

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Apple (AAPL) Shares up after posting strong holiday quarter.

Waters (WAT) Shares jump early after earnings results.

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Americans making big compromises to buy homes Many are willing to reduce their savings, go smaller Anne-Marcelle Ngabirano USA TODAY

Limited housing supplies are forcing prospective homeowners to make significant compromises, such as devoting less money to saving for emergencies and retirement, a new survey says.

According to a study commis-

sioned by Owners.com, an online brokerage, about 60% of consumers said saving for a home takes priority over saving for an emergency or retirement, and 72% said it would limit their contributions to other investment funds.

Although most consumers prioritize home ownership, the lack of affordability is a cause for concern. According to the survey, 69% of consumers fear not having enough cash for the down payment.

Besides cutting back on other savings, the survey respondents are willing to downsize their

dream homes: 51% would consider buying a fixer-upper, while 36% are willing to purchase a smaller home than what they prefer.

“Constrained inventory in many areas and climbing rents, home prices and mortgage rates means it’s not getting any easier to be a first-time buyer,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. “It’ll take more entry-level supply, continued job gains and even stronger wage growth for first-timers to make up a greater share of the market.”

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Home buyers are getting squeezed by several forces. Total housing inventory in December was 6.3% lower than a year ago and has fallen for 19 consecutive

months, the realtors group says.

The supply crunch is pushing up prices. The median price of an existing home was up 4% from a year earlier.

And 30-year mortgage rates have risen to 4.19% recently from 3.47% in late October, increasing monthly payments. Also, despite the growing housing demand and strengthening economy, home construction is still stuck modestly above recessionary levels.

Although buyers face challenges, experts say home ownership is still a better deal than renting.

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Hostess may not realize she’s hijacking discussion Dear Annie: My wife and I just visited good friends we’ve known for over 40 years.

The hostess talked from ‘’good morning’’ to ‘’good night.’’ What a performance!

At dinner, I was able to get a word in and remark that we had seen a moose on the road to their house. As was typical for the hostess, she butted in before I was done talking, and in a minute or so, she was talking about what her aunt Sally Smith’s neighbor, Joan Nobody, had for dinner at her daughter’s birthday party.

Why would any intelligent person have any interest in this? These are people we don’t know, and there was nothing special about the dinner.

I would rather have kept talking about the moose.

I now never want to visit them again. My wife

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tells me I am a social misfit. I feel our hostess is out of touch with polite behavior. Your thoughts? Please sign me — Tired of Boring, Never-Ending Chatter Dear Tired: The hostess is the real social misfit here, but everyone is too polite to let her know it. Do visit them again. But when this woman interrupts you, you must gently snag the conversational reins again. Let her speak for a minute before remind-

Hirsch back in workplace comedy Judd Hirsch (‘‘Taxi,’’ ‘‘Numbers’’) returns in ‘‘Superior Donuts’’ (7:30 p.m., CBS, TV-PG).

He’s Arthur, the cranky, older and perhaps wiser owner of the shop in the show’s title who takes a chance on brash young employee Franco (Jermaine Fowler), a kid from ‘‘the street.’’

At a time of so many television choices, CBS reaches back four decades to essentially re-create ‘‘Chico and the Man.’’ Set in a rapidly gentrifying part of Chicago, the donut shop is seen as the last vestige of a vanishing community. Franco tries to help popularize the shop with social media, poetry slams and other methods Arthur only dimly understands.

Katey Sagal plays a policewoman all but raised in the store. David Koechner is an unemployed regular who’s so old-school, he still uses a fax machine. Hirsch can still deliver zingers, even ancient ones, with great timing. Fowler more than holds his own with the old pro. ‘‘Donuts’’ will air on Mondays, beginning Feb. 6.

O Because CBS shows are the most watched, often by an older audience who enjoys ‘‘traditional’’ TV viewing, people tend to think of them as ‘‘normal’’ and overlook the fact that CBS shows (’’Criminal Minds,’’ ‘‘Stalker’’) can also be the most violent and depraved.

Not to give too much away, but at least six police officers are machine-gunned to death in the pilot episode of ‘‘Training Day’’ (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14), starring Bill Paxton and Justin Cornwell. And that’s just a small part of the on-screen carnage.

As a rogue cop under investigation, Paxton delivers unending drivel about how he plays the ‘‘game’’ on the ‘‘dark side of the mirror.’’ ‘‘Training Day’’ is a dreadful and pretentious Jerry Bruckheimer production that should suffer the fate of other recent series based on popular movies, including ‘‘Frequency,’’ ‘‘Limitless’’ and ‘‘Rush Hour.’’

Tonight’s other highlights O A winner is crowned on ‘‘Hell’s Kitchen’’ (7 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

O Cuba Gooding Jr. visits ‘‘Inside the Actors Studio’’ (7 p.m., Bravo, TV-PG).

O ‘‘30 for 30’’ (8 p.m., ESPN) presents ‘‘This Was the XFL,’’ recalling a failed media sports hybrid blending pro wrestling pyrotechnics and professional football.

O Facts emerge about Jason on ‘‘Riverdale’’ (8 p.m., CW, TV-14).

O Rayna and Deacon need tighter security on ‘‘Nashville’’ (8 p.m., CMT, TV-PG).

O A killer trades in contagion on ‘‘The Blacklist’’ (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

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ing her that you were in the middle of speaking.

A little humor will keep the tone friendly and spare the hostess some embarrassment.

Dear Annie: I’d like to add something to your response to ‘’Tears and Fears for the Victims All Over,’’ who wondered how to help when witnessing violent or unpleasant situations. I have been in such situations, too, and in a couple of instances, I have gone over and asked whether there was anything I could do to help. Obviously, one does not want to put oneself in harm’s way, but for events such as the ones ‘’Tears and Fears’’ described, what I might suggest also, seeing as there were automobiles included in the scenarios, is for the people who see what is happening to take the license plate down or take

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Thursday, Feb. 2: This year you might be more stubborn than you realize. You are also prone toward impulsiveness.

Make it a point to slow down and take in the big picture. Detach as much as possible, and you will feel better. If you are single, you could meet someone quite exotic and different from you. If you are attached, getting 100 percent involved in whatever you are doing will result in a stronger bond between you and your sweetie.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) ++++ Put your best foot forward. The unexpected could elicit an element of confusion. Tonight: Think “weekend.”

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ You might want to pull back and think before you take action. Tonight: You feel up to snuff.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++ You could find that others are acting unpredictably. Tonight: You are going to need all the rest you can get.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Toward the end of the day, you will feel like celebrating.

Tonight: Opt for an early weekend.

Start now!

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Reach out to someone you care about, as he or she always puts an interesting slant on an issue. Tonight: A friend could

a brief video of the incident using a cellphone.

Sometimes there is more we can do than we realize in situations such as this. I once saw what appeared to be an assault going on in a car in the parking lot of a hospital, and I went over to try to intervene.

It turned out that a young woman was having a grand mal seizure in the back seat, and her father was trying to restrain her so she would not hurt herself.

I quickly ran to the hospital and got somebody to bring a gurney out so that the young woman could be taken in.

Thank you, concerned citizens, for the good work that you do to make the world a better place.

— Good Samaritan — Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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play a strong role.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You might want to make a decision, but you recognize that you need to depend on a key person. Tonight: Read between the lines.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++++ Defer to a partner who feels secure. Be willing to let go and trust your gut. Tonight: Opt for something different.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++++ Reach out to an associate who makes all the difference when you work with him or her.

Tonight: Go along with a friend’s suggestion.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ Let a creative person give you strong feedback. Tonight: Grab an opportunity for a little R and R. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ You’ll discover how different your opinion is from someone else’s. Tonight: Add some mischief.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ You will state your case and also support yourself in heading in a certain direction. Tonight: Settle in.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ Continue your disciplined approach in order to get more of what you want. Tonight: Mellow out.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy Parker February 2, 2017 ACROSS 1 Build up, as a fortune 6 Palindromic band of Swedes 10 Arranged fight 14 Anti-flooding embankment 15 Messy one 16 Bonheur or Parks 17 Disdainful look 18 Game in which you rack ’em up 19 Sound made with fist-tomouth 20 Old sitcom for “us” 23 Common city-name starter in California 24 Paying for a hard workout?

25 Girl in a barn?

28 “... best-___ plans ...”

31 They stand tall in the salty air 34 Algeria native 36 False or graven object 38 They go with thees 40 Old Henry Fonda film with advice for a “friend” 43 Merits, as compensation 44 Far from more 45 Land of Dublin 46 Crockett and Jones 48 Work a spoon 2/2

50 “America the Beautiful” waterway 51 Aware of the real nature of 53 Get it to go 55 Tomei film that’s a favorite of “mine” 61 Solo in “Tosca,” e.g.

63 “Chestnuts roasting ___ open fire” 64 Vicinities 65 Belted out a song 66 What batting avgs. are, essentially 67 Wren’s “Beau ___” of literature 68 London park 69 You can find one in the bleachers 70 Walk in DOWN 1 “Wait, there’s more!”

2 It comes down on a computer 3 Declare firmly 4 “What ___ to be the problem?”

5 “Tune in for the conclusion” story 6 Egyptian cobras 7 Amorphous shape 8 Unmannerly ones 9 Bursting magnificently into flower 10 Frictioncreating car part

11 Aahs’ partners 12 “___ as directed” 13 Flat Scottish hat 21 Slowpoke that just creeps along 22 Speak to a crowd 25 Legendary soul singer Marvin 26 On ___ to nowhere 27 George W.’s first lady 29 Musical composition evoking rural life (var.)

30 Political Robert and Elizabeth 32 Tennille and Braxton 33 One Bolivian capital 35 “Have a pleasant cruise!”

37 Tip to one side, at sea

39 Words before “doctor” or “ghost” 41 Boy band of the ’90s 42 Hippie’s “peace”-ful display 47 Exhibits improper posture, in a way 49 Lay waste to 52 1/16 pound 54 Police car’s noisemaker 55 It’s “a terrible thing to waste” 56 ___ spell (rested) 57 “Meet Me ___ Louis” 58 Bird’s home 59 Thurmond of the NBA 60 River that rises in French Flanders 61 “Evil Dead” hero 62 Bit of sun

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Kansas officials sound off on Gorsuch Topeka — A number of Kansas public officials and advocacy groups weighed in Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s nomination of 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. And as one might expect, their reactions fell along partisan and ideological lines.

“Judge Gorsuch is a mainstream, respected judge who has served on the bench next door in Colorado for a decade,” said Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, who will vote on Gorsuch’s confirmation. “It is important for Kansans to know that he is a strict Constitutionalist and will not legislate from the bench. We have seen too many critical rulings of late that have ignored the separation of powers and have turned our courts into a super-legislature. Judge Gorsuch will not contribute to this disturbing trend.”

Kansas Democrats, on the other hand, were not so complimentary.

“The Kansas Democratic Party hopes to see the same consideration for Mr. Gorsuch as the Republicans in the Senate have given to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, the Honorable Merrick Garland,” said Kerry Gooch, executive director of

Statehouse Live

local option budgets violated a number of rights under the U.S. Constitution.

In one of the appeals involved in that case, a three-judge panel that included Gorsuch ruled in 2012 that the parents did have standing to sue.

But the case was later dismissed on its merits by another three-judge panel in 2015.

Peter Hancock Gov. Sam Brownback, phancock@ljworld.com who was the named defendant in that case, isthe state Democratic sued a statement praising Party. “Those RepubGorsuch. licans entirely ignored “President Trump the nomination, openly made good on his most refusing to give Mr. Gar- important campaign land even a hearing, let promise, to fill Justice alone a vote. It would be (Antonin) Scalia’s seat on hypocrisy on the side of the Supreme Court with the Senate Republicans someone with impeccato demand Senate Demo- ble credentials who will crats vote for confirmadefend the Constitution tion in a quick and quiet with vigor and integrity,” manner.”

Brownback said. “Judge Gorsuch, a native of Gorsuch is an excellent Colorado who gradujurist, more than qualified, and has demonstratated from Harvard Law ed great respect for the School in 1991, was named to the 10th Circuit rule of law.”

Republican Attorney appellate bench by PresiGeneral Derek Schmidt, dent George W. Bush in who has challenged a 2006. number of federal regulaOne significant case from Kansas in which he tions issued during Demparticipated was a school ocrat Barack Obama’s administration in cases finance case, Patrella vs. that have gone to the U.S. Brownback, in which a Supreme Court, also said group of parents in the Shawnee Mission School he has high hopes for Gorsuch.

District sued in federal “We know him as a court, claiming the state’s solid, capable jurist,” cap on the authority of Schmidt said. “It will be school districts to levy

good for Kansas and the Midwest to have a voice from the central part of the country on the U.S. Supreme Court.”

As of Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Jerry Moran had not issued a public statement. But he posted comments on Twitter Monday night calling Gorsuch, “an impressive & well-qualified #SCOTUS nominee who has already received bipartisan support in the Senate.”

Republican 2nd District Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, whose district includes Lawrence, also took to Twitter to comment on Gorsuch, calling him “an ardent defender of the U.S. Constitution and a great legal mind.”

Gorsuch also received praise from the Kansas Republican Party and the conservative Family Policy Alliance of Kansas, a lobby group that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage and supports “religious freedom” legislation that allows private businesses and government officials to deny service to certain individuals based on religious faith.

— This is an excerpt from Peter Hancock’s Statehouse Live column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

Group looks to expand preschool in Eudora, Wellsville, Baldwin City

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

POLICE BLOTTER Here is a list of recent Lawrence Police Department calls requiring the response of four or more officers.

This list spans from 6:18 a.m. Tuesday to 5:21 a.m. Wednesday. A full list of department calls is available in the Lights & Sirens blog, which can be found online at LJWorld.com.

Each incident listed only bears a short

description and may not capture the entirety of what took place. Not every call results in citations or arrests, and the information is subject to change as police investigations move forward.

Tuesday, 9:55 a.m., five officers, domestic disturbance, address redacted.

Tuesday, 8:59 p.m., six officers, disturbance, 700 block of Monterey Way.

The East Central Kansas Cooperative in Education is looking to expand preschool options in the Baldwin City, Eudora and Wellsville school districts.

Dan Wray, director of the special education cooperative, said the plan would open half-day preschool classes to more 3and 4-year-old children in the three districts.

Wray said there were two goals: one, to provide more children the opportunity to attend preschool with curriculum designed to prepare them for kindergarten; and two, to create the “least restrictive environments” in classrooms for those children with individualized education plans by placing them with typically developing peers.

The cooperative offers Preschool Enhancement Program classrooms in all three districts for 3and 4-year-olds identified through screening as having learning difficulties in areas of speech, motor, communication, social or other skills.

Those PEP preschool classes are all that are now available for children younger than 5 in the Eudora and Wellsville districts. Wray said both districts were ready to move forward with the expanded preschool option for the 2017-2018 school year.

The cooperative’s plan is to accept enough typically developing children to have 13 to 15 students

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next school year in Eudora and Wellsville’s PEP classrooms, Wray said.

Eudora now has from nine to 11 students in its four PEP classrooms. The cooperative would hire additional paraprofessionals when necessary to maintain appropriate adult-to-student ratios, he said.

The Baldwin City situation is different in two ways, Wray said. That district has a large enough percentage of single-parent families, teen parents, students receiving free and reduced lunches, and other risk indicators to qualify for state funding of an at-risk preschool program. It also has an existing large community preschool in the Rainbow Experience Preschool.

Currently, the Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center has three four-day-a-week PEP classrooms for 3- and 4-year-olds, a half-day atrisk 4-year-old classroom and all-day at-risk 4-yearold classroom. The at-risk 4-year-old classrooms are free to qualifying students, but they also accept a number of tuitionpaying students.

Wray said the cooperative’s plan would blend the half-day 4-year-old classroom with the PEP classes and accept more typically developing students to increase enrollment to 12 to 15 students per classroom. The all-day at-risk program would be unchanged.

A complication in blending the PEP and half-day at-risk classrooms is their differing

schedules. Wray said the Baldwin City district’s PEP classes meet four days a week while the 4-year-old at-risk classrooms are five days a week so students can receive the 465 hours of instruction the state mandates for the program.

A solution would be to expand the proposed blended classrooms to five days a week, but that issue was still being discussed, Wray said. A decision should be made in the next few weeks, he said.

Another factor in Baldwin City is how the proposal would affect Rainbow Experience Preschool, which offers 3-year-old and 4-year-old preschool classes. Baldwin Elementary School Principal Deb EhlingGwin told the Baldwin City school board last month that she didn’t want the expansion to hurt Rainbow.

For his part, Wray maintains it would have little consequences on the 53-year-old Rainbow.

“We’re talking about very few children, and we’re offering very different kinds of products.”

Chelsea Bradbury, Rainbow director, shares that view.

Bradbury said EhlingGwin visited with her last week about the proposed changes, and she would update the preschool’s board on the plan at a meeting Thursday. Rainbow currently has 17 3-year-olds and 18 4-year-olds in its preschool programs, but they are offered all-day

and after-school day care options and other programs unavailable at the elementary school, she said.

“We have a very different atmosphere,” she said. “Honestly, I’m not too worried at this point, but I’d have to see what the rates are compared to ours.”

Wray, who served as the Ottawa special education director before taking the ECKCE job last year, said similar concerns were expressed before that district expanded its preschool.

The Ottawa preschool program attracted more than enough peer students and only affected the waiting list numbers of private preschools, he said.

There are still details to be put in place, including tuition costs, Wray said. Enrollment for the expanded preschool programs would coincide with the districts’ kindergarten roundups in the spring, he said.

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166. Follow him on Twitter: @ElvynJ

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Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. Toddler Storytime, 9:30-10 a.m. and 10:3011 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Latino Community Coalition Lunch Meeting, noon, Community Health Facility, 200 Maine St. Cottin’s Hardware Farmers Market indoors, 4-6 p.m., Cottin’s Hardware and Rental, 1832 Massachusetts St. Dinner and Junkyard Jazz, 5:30 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Harry Potter Book Night, 6-8 p.m., The Castle Tea Room, 1307 Massachusetts St. Lawrence Stamp Club, 6-8 p.m., Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. The U.S. and the Great War: 100 Years Later, Part 1 — America’s Road to War, 7 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish

Drive. Part of the 2017 Presidential Lecture Series.

Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council meeting, 7 p.m., Commission Meeting Room, Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Intersection Repair 2.0 Meeting, 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, meeting room A, 707 Vermont St. Write Club, 7-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, Meeting Room B, 707 Vermont St. Native Plants of the Midwest: A presentation and book signing of Alan Branhagen, 7-9 p.m., Flory Meeting Hall, Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper Ave. Pippin, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Weekly Tango Lessons and Dancing, 7:30-10:30 p.m., English Room, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

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Ecology Seminar: Dawn Beuhler, Friends of the Kaw, noon, Takeru Higuchi Hall, 2010 Constant Ave. Career Clinic, 1-2 p.m., Lawrence Public

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Library Health Spot, 707 Vermont St. Tween Club (ages 8-11), 3:30-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Bingo night, doors 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. Post Inaugural Commiseration Dance, 8-10 p.m., Union Pacific Depot, 402 N. Second St.

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Red Dog’s Fun Run, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelers, 833 Massachusetts St. Jayhawk Audubon Society Late Winter Bird Seed, Book & Feeder Sale, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Fellowship Hall, 1245 New Hampshire St. Read Across Lawrence Kick-off Parties, adults, 11 a.m.-noon; kids ages 7-11, 2-3 p.m.; kids ages 12-17, 4-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. St. Pat’s Parade: Pool Tourney and Chili CookOff, noon, Astros, 601 Kasold Drive.

Re-Imagined Pollinators Mural Community Meeting, 1-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Great Books Discussion Group: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” 2-4 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Americana Music Academy Community Jam, 3-5 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Massachusetts St. Lawrence Stands with Refugees, 4-6 p.m., Islamic Center of Lawrence, 1917 Naismith Drive.

American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St.

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KANSAS GUARD FRANK MASON III (0) JUMPS UP TO RECEIVE KU STUDENTS gathered over the scoreboard in the northwest tunnel following the Jayhawks’ 73-68 win over Baylor on Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse. For more photos, please visit: kusports.com.

Late stop sends KU past Baylor

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About 30 minutes after the third-ranked Jayhawks secured a 73-68 victory on Wednesday night over No. 2 Baylor at Allen Fieldhouse, junior guard Devonté Graham found himself laughing while thinking back to a question posed by KU coach Bill Self to his team a couple of weeks ago.

“It’s funny, because coach asked us if we would rather be down two with the ball or up two and have to get a stop (to win),” Graham began.

“And a lot of us said up two and get that stop.

That’s what it was tonight. We were up three, but we just needed to get

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that stop and get the win.”

Never had the Kansas defense looked better this season in doing it, as the Jayhawks played the part of a boa constrictor suffocating its daily meal during the frantic final 18 seconds, as the Bears desperately searched for enough daylight to try a game-tying 3-pointer.

It never came.

With Frank Mason III hounding Baylor point guard Manu Lecomte and Kansas trapping both on the initial ball screen and a second pass, the Bears finally broke and turned the ball over with a bad pass out of bounds with 1.3 seconds showing on the clock.

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KANSAS GUARD JOSH JACKSON soars in for a dunk late in > JAYHAWKS, 4C the second half.

ack-to-back games against top-five teams, one in enemy territory with more than 24,000 rooting against him, the other in the building that supplies college basketball’s most outrageous home-court advantage.

Time for Josh Jackson to show the nation how much he loves to play basketball, how much he loves to win.

As Kentucky on Saturday and Baylor on Wednesday night can attest, he was more than up to the challenge.

Jackson dropped 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead Kansas past Baylor, 73-68, after dropping 20 and 10 on Kentucky.

The better the competition, the more rapidly

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Jackson improves his game.

It’s why he came to Kansas, to take on all comers, to compete and to win.

“Steel sharpens steel,” Jackson said. “I don’t feel like you would get better if you were playing against a bunch of guys who don’t really want to compete or want to win. It’s even harder being Kansas because everyone just wants to beat you so bad.”

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NATIONAL SIGNING DAY

Running backs highlight KU recruiting class

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KANSAS FOOTBALL COACH DAVID BEATY gives the rundown on his incoming players during a signing day news conference Wednesday at Mrkonic Auditorium in the Anderson Family Football Complex.

Some coaches liken National Signing Day to Christmas. For thirdyear Kansas football coach David Beaty, who saw a crop of new additions make their affiliation with the program official Wednesday, it felt more like a game day. And Beaty thought the Jayhawks emerged victorious.

“That’s what it should feel like when you cul-

minate a class like this,” Beaty said.

The biggest KU wins in behind-the-scenes recruiting wars came at running back. Dom Williams, a high school rusher extraordinaire from McKinney, Texas, rated a four-star recruit

by Rivals, stayed true to a commitment he made in September of 2015 — even after Arizona State, Baylor, Boise State, Utah and other programs attempted to snatch him away.

“He stuck with us,” Beaty said of Williams, a 5-foot-10, 190-pound talent, “when people came knocking every day. Every day there was somebody big coming to knock on his door. But he believed in it, he saw the vision, and he knows what’s going on here. Not only that, he’s dang good.”

The Jayhawks also added an unexpected running back to their Class of 2017, who wasn’t widely known as a possibility.

Auburn and Louisville of-

fered Itawamba Community College’s Octavius Matthews, but the threestar back signed with KU, just like his juco teammate and quarterback at ICC, Peyton Bender, did in December.

“I don’t know a lot of people knew about this guy until today,” Beaty said of the 6-1, 200-pound Matthews, who will be a junior at KU. “And that’s because we had to battle all the way until today to

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TWO-DAY SPORTS CALENDAR

KANSAS

NBA Roundup

TODAY • Softball media day at Rock Chalk Park, 1 p.m.

FRIDAY NORTH • Track at Nebraska Invitational, all day • Women’s tennis at North Carolina State, noon • Women’s swimming vs. Iowa State, 6 p.m.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE The Associated Press

Cavaliers 125, Timberwolves 97 Cleveland — LeBron James scored 27 points, Kyrie Irving had 14 and a career-high 14 assists and Cleveland, coming off a losing record in January, defeated Minnesota on Wednesday night.

MINNESOTA (97) Wiggins 9-17 3-3 23, Towns 11-19 2-2 26, Dieng 1-4 0-0 2, Rubio 5-11 3-3 14, LaVine 4-18 0-0 8, Muhammad 7-16 0-0 16, Bjelica 4-7 0-2 8, Payne 0-1 0-0 0, Aldrich 0-1 0-0 0, Dunn 0-0 0-0 0, T.Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-94 8-10 97.

CLEVELAND (125) James 11-14 4-7 27, Frye 7-13 1-2 18, Thompson 7-11 4-5 18, Irving 5-18 3-4 14, Shumpert 3-9 0-0 9, Jefferson 2-5 0-0 4, Felder 3-5 1-2 9, Liggins 0-0 0-0 0, Korver 8-11 0-0 20, J.Jones 1-2 0-0 2, McRae 1-1 1-2 4. Totals 48-89 14-22 125.

Minnesota 32 28 19 18 — 97 Cleveland 36 27 30 32 — 125

Celtics 109, Raptors 104 Boston — Isaiah Thomas scored 19 of his 44 points in the final quarter to lift Boston over Toronto in a showdown for first place in the Atlantic Division.

TORONTO (104) Carroll 2-8 0-0 6, Patterson 3-6 3-5 10, Valanciunas 1-1 1-2 3, Lowry 12-20 4-6 32, Powell 6-9 0-0 12, Ross 3-10 0-2 6, Sullinger 5-8 2-5 13, Poeltl 2-2 0-0 4, Nogueira 3-4 4-4 10, Joseph 4-10 0-1 8. Totals 41-78 14-25 104.

BOSTON (109) Crowder 5-13 3-4 14, Brown 2-6 4-6 8, Johnson 2-2 0-0 5, Horford 4-13 2-2 11, Thomas 12-22 15-16 44, Green 1-3 0-0 2, Jerebko 2-7 0-0 6, Zeller 2-3 0-0 4, Smart 4-11 1-2 10, Rozier 2-7 0-0 5. Totals 36-87 25-30 109.

Toronto 30 32 23 19 — 104 Boston 28 23 26 32 — 109

Heat 116, Hawks 93 Miami — Goran Dragic scored 27 points, Dion Waiters added 20 and Miami pushed the NBA’s longest current winning streak to nine games by easing past Atlanta.

EAST

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Atlanta 22 25 24 Miami 29 33 32

22 — 93 22 — 116

Pistons 118, Pelicans 98 Auburn Hills, Mich. — Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored a career-high 38 points, leading Mavericks 113, 76ers 95 Detroit over New Orleans.

Dallas — Seth Curry scored 22 points and Dallas beat Philadelphia.

Cole Aldrich, Minnesota Min: 3. Pts: 0. Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

Darrell Arthur, Denver Min: 16. Pts: 14. Reb: .5 Ast: 0.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Min: 3. Pts: 0. Reb: 0. Ast: 0.

Joel Embiid, Philadelphia SOUTH Did not play (knee injury).

NEW ORLEANS (98) Hill 3-7 0-0 9, Jones 5-9 1-1 11, Davis 13-24 5-6 31, Holiday 10-17 2-3 22, Hield 2-8 0-0 5, Cunningham 1-2 0-0 2, Motiejunas 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 4-8 0-0 9, Evans 3-7 3-4 9. Totals 41-82 11-14 98.

DETROIT (118) Morris 3-9 0-0 7, Leuer 1-7 0-0 2, Drummond 8-13 1-2 17, Jackson 2-7 2-2 6, Caldwell-Pope 12-18 6-8 38, Johnson 2-7 0-0 4, Bullock 1-2 0-0 2, Harris 9-13 1-1 19, Baynes 4-5 0-0 8, Smith 6-7 2-4 15. Totals 48-88 12-17 118.

New Orleans 30 24 27 17 — 98 Detroit 34 26 23 35 — 118

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Did not play (coach’s decision).

BALTIMORE ORIOLES

FRIDAY • Boys swimming at Sunflower League prelims, at FSHS, 5 p.m.

• Girls/boys basketball at Shawnee Misison Northwest, 5:30 p.m.

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BOSTON RED SOX

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Minnesota Anthony 6-22 2-3 15, Porzingis 7-15 4-7 19, 1-2 Crawford 5-11 4-6 14. Totals 44-84 31-38 124.

ALNoah WEST PHOENIX (114) 1-2 3, Jennings 1-11 4-6 6, Lee 3-7 1-2 7, Kuzminskas Did not play Warren 3-6 2-3 8, Chriss 3-15 2-2 9, Chandler 5-5 1-2 4-10 0-0 9, O’Quinn 0-2 0-0 0, Hernangomez 7-12 2-4 11, Bledsoe 13-22 13-15 41, Booker 7-19 5-5 20, Tucker (coach’s decision).

16, Vujacic 4-10 2-2 12, Baker 0-4 1-3 1, Holiday 2-4 2-2 3-9 2-2 10, Bender 2-6 0-0 5, Len 0-2 1-2 1, Knight 0-3 0-0 FRIDAY 7. Totals 35-99 19-31 95.

0, Barbosa 3-9 3-4 9. Totals 39-96 29-35 114.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS OAKLAND ATHLETICS MARINERS TEXAS RANGERS BROOKLYN (90) L.A. Clippers 38 24 30 SEATTLE 32 — 124 Andrew Wiggins, Minnesota OF ANAHEIM • Girls/boys basketball at WAHAA, Lopez 4-11 2-4 10, Whitehead 2-9 0-0 4, Phoenix 31 28 29 26 — 114 Min: 36. Pts: 23. Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

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Totals 37-88 11-16 90.

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ATLANTA (93) Bazemore 6-11 1-1 14, Millsap 4-12 1-1 9, Howard 2-6 2-2 6, Schroder 5-11 2-2 12, Hardaway Jr. 2-9 4-4 10, Prince 1-3 1-1 3, Bembry 2-6 0-1 4, Scott 0-3 0-0 0, Muscala 3-5 0-0 8, Humphries 3-4 1-2 8, Delaney 1-4 2-2 4, Dunleavy 3-7 4-4 11, Patterson 2-5 0-1 4. Totals 34-86 18-21 93.

MIAMI (116) Babbitt 3-5 0-0 8, Whiteside 8-13 2-3 18, Dragic 8-13 7-9 27, McGruder 1-7 0-0 2, Waiters 9-15 0-0 20, White 0-0 0-0 0, Reed 3-5 1-2 7, J.Johnson 7-13 0-1 16, Ellington 2-11 2-2 7, T.Johnson 4-11 2-2 11. Totals 45-93 14-19 116.

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No. 23 Purdue 80, No. 25 Northwestern 59 West Lafayette, Ind. — Caleb Swanigan had 24 points and 16 rebounds to help lead No. 23 Purdue to a rout over No. 25 Northwestern.

TCU (15-7) Miller 7-10 0-1 18, Brodziansky 7-9 3-4 17, K.Williams 4-9 0-0 11, Robinson 4-14 3-3 12, Fisher 4-7 2-3 12, Shepherd 3-4 5-6 11, Washburn 0-3 1-2 1, B.Parrish 1-4 0-0 2, Bane 1-2 0-0 2, M.Williams 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-62 14-19 86.

KANSAS ST. (15-7) Johnson 6-7 2-3 14, Wade 0-5 2-2 2, Iwundu 4-9 2-6 10, Stokes 5-15 6-6 21, Brown 3-8 0-0 7, Maurice 2-4 1-2 5, Sneed 4-4 8-9 19, Ervin 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 25-55 21-28 80.

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PHILADELPHIA (95) Ilyasova 4-9 4-4 13, Okafor 7-16 2-5 16, McConnell 3-6 2-2 8, Stauskas 2-5 3-4 8, LuwawuCabarrot 3-5 0-0 7, Noel 4-8 0-0 8, Holmes 1-1 0-0 2, Saric 3-9 3-6 10, Rodriguez 2-6 0-0 5, Henderson 3-7 4-4 10, Randle 3-5 1-1 8. Totals 35-77 19-26 95.

DALLAS (113) Barnes 6-13 2-2 15, Nowitzki 4-12 0-0 8, Ferrell 3-13 5-5 11, Curry 8-14 3-4 22, Matthews 3-9 2-2 9, Brussino 0-1 0-0 0, Finney-Smith 1-1 3-4 5, Powell 2-5 1-2 6, Mejri 7-9 2-4 16, Harris 3-5 5-5 14, Anderson 3-4 0-0 7. Totals 40-86 23-28 113.

Philadelphia 23 24 22 26 — 95 Dallas 20 30 31 32 — 113

Knicks 95, Nets 90 EAST New York — KristapsALPorzClippers 124, Suns 114 ingis had 19 points and 12 rePhoenix — Blake Griffin bounds, and joined a group of scored 29 points and Los Angeles mostly substitutes who led a bounced back to beat Phoenix.

AL CENTRAL big fourth-quarter turnaround that carried New York over L.A. CLIPPERS (124) Griffin 10-14 9-10 29, Jordan 3-3 0-2 6, Felton Brooklyn.

7-14 2-2 18, Redick 5-13 4-4 16, Rivers 4-12 6-8 14,

Marcus Morris, Detroit Min: 34. Pts: 7. Reb: 4. Ast: 4.

Pacers 98, Magic 88 Orlando, Fla. — C.J. Miles scored 16 points, Glenn Robinson III added 14 and Indiana held on to beat Orlando.

INDIANA (98) George 3-14 1-1 8, Miles 6-7 0-0 16, T.Young 6-11 0-0 12, Turner 4-9 2-2 11, Teague 2-5 8-9 13, Robinson 5-5 2-2 14, Allen 1-2 4-4 6, Jefferson 4-7 2-2 10, Stuckey 2-6 4-6 8, Ellis 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 33-69 23-26 98.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

TCU 86, Kansas State 80, OT Manhattan — JD Miller scored 18 points and Vladimir Brodziansky had 17 as TCU defeated Kansas State on Wednesday night.

ORLANDO (88) Fournier 3-8 4-4 12, Ibaka 6-16 6-6 20, Gordon 3-8 1-3 7, Vucevic 6-15 3-6 15, Payton 5-10 1-1 11, Green 2-7 2-2 6, Biyombo 1-3 0-2 2, Augustin 3-6 3-4 10, Watson 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 31-77 20-28 88.

Indiana 28 28 24 18 — 98 Orlando 23 24 27 14 — 88

NORTHWESTERN (18-5) Law 0-7 1-3 1, Pardon 3-7 0-1 6, Brown 4-13 3-4 11, McIntosh 9-19 3-3 22, Lumpkin 3-6 2-5 9, Skelly 0-3 2-2 2, Hall 0-0 0-0 0, Benson 2-4 4-4 8, Ash 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-59 15-22 59.

PURDUE (18-5) Swanigan 7-11 8-9 24, V.Edwards 6-9 0-0 17, Thompson 1-2 0-0 3, C.Edwards 2-9 4-4 9, Mathias 4-5 3-4 13, Eifert 0-0 0-0 0, Haas 3-9 5-8 11, Albrecht 0-2 0-0 0, Cline 1-2 0-0 3, Luce 0-0 0-0 0, McKeeman 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-49 20-25 80.

No. 15 Florida State 75, Miami 57 Coral Gables, Fla. — Jonathan Isaac scored 15 points and No. 15 Florida State held Miami scoreless for more than 6 1/2 minutes in the second half to snap a two-game skid by winning.

FLORIDA ST. (19-4) Isaac 5-7 4-4 15, Ojo 1-1 3-3 5, Bacon 6-16 2-2 15, Mann 4-6 2-2 11, Rathan-Mayes 4-8 2-2 13, Smith 1-2 1-2 3, Cofer 1-2 0-0 2, Koumadje 2-2 0-0 4, Walker 1-3 0-0 2, Forrest 1-3 0-0 2, Savoy 1-1 0-0 3, Angola-Rodas 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 27-52 14-15 75.

MIAMI (14-7) Murphy 1-4 2-3 4, Reed 5-11 1-2 12, Brown 4-10 9-11 17, Newton 4-5 4-4 12, Lawrence 1-4 0-0 2, Huell 3-6 1-2 7, Izundu 0-0 0-0 0, Miller 0-0 0-0 0, Vasiljevic 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 19-42 17-22 57.

MEMPHIS (119) Parsons 2-7 2-2 6, Green 4-9 0-0 8, Gasol 9-15 3-3 24, Conley 7-14 2-2 18, Allen 2-8 0-0 4, Ennis 4-6 3-3 13, Wright 1-2 0-0 2, Davis 0-2 0-2 0, Randolph 7-12 0-0 14, Douglas 1-2 0-0 2, Harrison 2-6 2-4 8, Daniels 2-3 0-0 6, Carter 4-6 3-4 14. Totals 45-92 15-20 119.

DENVER (99) Gallinari 4-12 6-8 14, Faried 5-6 1-1 11, Nurkic 1-4 2-4 4, Nelson 0-1 0-0 0, Harris 4-4 2-2 12, Hernangomez 3-5 1-1 8, Chandler 2-6 0-1 4, O’Bryant 0-4 2-2 2, Arthur 4-9 2-2 14, Mudiay 4-10 6-10 14, Miller 0-1 0-0 0, Murray 3-16 2-2 9, Beasley 2-2 2-2 7. Totals 32-80 26-35 99.

Memphis 27 35 25 32 — 119 Denver 18 31 20 30 — 99

TODAY NBA Basketball

Time

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College Basketball

Time

Baylor at Kansas replay 12 a.m.

Baylor at Kansas replay 3 a.m.

Baylor at Kansas replay 6 a.m.

Baylor at Kansas replay 9 a.m.

Baylor at Kansas replay 12 p.m.

Michigan St. at Neb. 6 p.m.

Missouri at Fla. 6 p.m.

Bryant at Mount St. Mary’s 6 p.m.

No. 14 Cincinnati 57, Tulsa 55 Memphis at S. Fla. 6 p.m.

Tulsa, Okla. — Troy Caupain Ariz. at Oregon St. 8 p.m. hit a 16-foot jumper with 4.4 sec- Belmont at Murray St. 8 p.m. onds left to lift No. 14 Cincinnati Hawaii Pac. at Calif. Baptist 9 p.m. to a victory over Tulsa.

Gonzaga at BYU 10 p.m.

St. Mary’s (Cal) at Pacific 10 p.m.

CINCINNATI (20-2) 10 p.m.

Clark 3-5 2-3 9, Washington 3-7 4-4 10, Ariz. St. at Oregon Johnson 1-5 4-4 6, Caupain 5-13 3-3 15, Evans 4-14 0-0 10, T.Scott 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 1-4 0-0 3, Jenifer 0-0 0-0 0, Cumberland 1-3 2-5 4. Totals 18-51 15-19 57.

TULSA (12-9) Etou 3-3 3-4 10, Igbanu 3-3 4-7 10, Birt 1-5 0-0 2, Taplin 3-14 2-3 9, Wheeler 4-9 4-4 13, Magnay 0-0 0-0 0, Edogi 2-3 4-6 8, Atson 0-1 0-0 0, Battle 0-0 0-0 0, Henderson 1-3 0-0 3, Korita 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 17-42 17-24 55.

VIRGINIA TECH (16-6) Sy 0-0 0-0 0, Bibbs 1-4 2-3 5, Allen 5-14 3-4 14, Robinson 2-4 1-2 5, Outlaw 2-5 0-0 5, Z.LeDay 3-6 6-8 12, Hill 1-5 0-0 2, Clarke 1-4 3-3 5. Totals 15-42 15-20 48.

VIRGINIA (17-4) Wilkins 7-11 1-1 15, Salt 0-0 0-0 0, Shayok 2-5 5-7 9, Perrantes 5-11 2-2 14, Hall 6-14 4-7 17, Diakite 0-0 0-0 0, Reuter 1-2 2-2 4, Jerome 2-5 2-2 7, Guy 1-4 0-0 3, Thompson 1-2 0-0 2, Gross 0-0 0-0 0, Bartley 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-54 16-21 71.

VILLANOVA (21-2) Reynolds 0-0 0-0 0, Jenkins 2-12 0-0 6, Brunson 8-13 5-5 21, Hart 6-15 1-1 17, Bridges 4-4 0-0 8, Paschall 5-8 1-3 12, DiVincenzo 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 26-56 7-9 66.

PROVIDENCE (14-10) Bullock 3-11 0-0 6, Holt 3-6 1-2 7, Lindsey 2-8 1-2 6, Cartwright 4-11 0-0 8, Diallo 5-9 6-8 18, Young 3-4 0-0 6, Fazekas 1-4 0-0 3, White 0-0 1-2 1, Jackson 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 21-53 11-16 57.

17, Tut 2-3 0-0 4, Gueye 0-1 0-0 0, Gravett 1-5 0-0 2, Hinson 0-1 2-2 2, McKie 2-3 0-0 6, Felder 1-4 3-4 6, Blanton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-61 21-31 88.

LSU (9-12) Reath 2-5 0-0 4, Epps 0-1 0-0 0, Blakeney 3-12 2-3 9, Sampson 6-10 2-2 16, Patterson 2-6 2-2 6, Sims 4-8 0-0 8, Eddlestone 2-3 1-2 6, Bridgewater 1-3 0-0 2, Robinson 0-0 1-2 1, Jenkins 0-1 0-0 0, Mays 4-9 1-3 11, Hayward 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 24-60 9-14 63.

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get him. I would consider this one of the biggest victories that we’ve had in this class because we had to battle some big-time places to get him all the way to the end.”

When Beaty and his staff began planning for this year’s class, he said a primary goal was creating “true Big 12 depth,” and the coach thinks the program is beginning to make up some ground in that category.

While Kansas chose not to reveal which players signed scholarships and which would

join the program in walk-on est-rated prospects. capacities, the team announced 20 signing-day additions. That 4 stars • RB Dom Williams, Independence H.S., Texas total comes to 21 when includ- (5-10, 190): Makes effortless cuts. Helped build this KU class. Terrific skills and acceleration. ing three-star Louisiana prep 3 stars receiver Travis Jordan. Al• CB Antonio Cole, Highland C.C., Kansas though KU couldn’t yet con- (6-0, 198): Always around the ball. Terrific in coverage. firm his signing officially, the • WR Quan Hampton, Texas H.S., Texas (5-8, 6-1 prospect tweeted out his 170): One of the most explosive guys the KU have seen. intentions with photos from coaches • WR/Athlete Travis Jordan, John Ehert H.S., his ceremony Wednesday af- Louisiana (6-1, 185): Didn’t comment.

• RB Octavius Matthews, Itawamba C.C., ternoon.

Mississippi (6-1, 200): Can line up in slot or Beaty did speak publicly for in back field, and can make plays as receiver the first time on the majority or rusher.

• WR/TE Kenyon Tabor, Derby H.S., Kansas of the other newest Jayhawks, (6-4, 215): Should be a pillar for the program. and, as expected on a day as- Going to be a “big monster” target in passing game. sociated with generating buzz, • CB Robert Topps III, Marist H.S., Illinois (6-2, had high praise for them all.

190): Gives KU length it needed in secondary Below is a full list of KU and could play either corner or safety.

2 stars football additions, broken up • OL/DL Earl Bostick, Barnwell H.S., South by their Rivals’ recruiting rank- Carolina (6-6, 270): Massive, and could end up on Sundays. ings, with a brief description playing • LB Jay Dineen, Free State H.S., Kansas (6-2, from Beaty himself on the high- 235): An energy guy, and a dude who “will

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• OL Joey Gilbertson, Wichita Northwest H.S., Kansas (6-4, 285): A “big dude” whose wrestling prowess stands out as a blocker. Kind of “nasty” lineman.

• K Liam Jones, Chocktaw H.S., Oklahoma (5-10, 170): Could be pivotal for special teams with KU losing Matthew Wyman. Has leg speed to be “stud” kicker.

• LB Cooper Root, Wichita Collegiate H.S., Kansas (6-2, 200): Long, good-looking player who could line up inside or outside for KU. • WR Takulve Williams, St. Augustine H.S., Louisiana (6-0, 185): Has top-end gear when he runs and made big plays on special teams in one of the most difficult leagues in the country.

Unrated • K Cole Brungardt, Lawrence H.S., Kansas (6-5, 200) • DL Sam Burt, Abilene H.S., Kansas (6-4, 240) • S Nick Caudle, Maur Hill Prep-Mount Academy, Kansas (6-0, 185) • WR Hunter Kaufman, Pratt H.S., Kansas (5-11, 170) • TE/HB Moses Marshall IV, Erie C.C., New York (6-3, 230) • FB/HB Quinton McQuillan, Lansing H.S., Kansas (6-2, 225) • TE/HB Sam Schroeder, Wichita Trinity Academy, Kansas (6-0, 225) • OL Jack Williams, Argyle H.S., Texas (6-3, 270)

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KU women overpowered

by No. 18 Oklahoma, 89-52 The Associated Press

Norman, Okla. (ap) — Maddie Manning had 19 points, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals, Peyton Little scored 16, and No. 18 Oklahoma beat Kansas 89-52 on Wednesday for its eighth straight home win.

Manning was 8 of 9 from the floor, including 3 for 3 from distance, to help the Sooners shoot a season-high 59.2 percent.

Her eight field goals tied a career high.

Gabbi Ortiz added 12 points and Gioya Carter 11 for Oklahoma (17-6, 8-3 Big 12). Freshman Nancy Mulkey blocked a careerbest eight shots to help the Sooners finish with a season-high 13. Mulkey’s blocks were the fourth most in school history and the most since Courtney Paris in 2008.

Oklahoma started the game on a 15-2 run, outscored the Jayhawks 2413 in the first quarter and led 47-28 at halftime. The Sooners finished the half shooting 73.1 percent for their best shooting half of the season.

Kylee Kopatich paced Kansas (7-15, 1-10) with 14 points and Jessica Washington added 11.

BOX SCORE KANSAS (52)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Sydney Umeri 15 0-3 0-0 5-5 3 0 J. Washington 30 3-20 3-4 1-2 1 11 J. Christopher 19 2-5 1-4 0-1 2 5 Kylee Kopatich 29 6-9 0-0 0-1 1 14 Chelsea Lott 7 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 M. Calvert 14 0-4 0-0 1-1 0 0 Jada Brown 24 1-3 2-4 4-7 1 4 Timeka O’Neal 13 3-9 0-0 0-0 0 9 Aisia Robertson 17 2-5 1-2 2-5 2 5 C. Manning-Allen 13 1-4 2-2 0-1 3 4 team 7-7 Totals 18-65 9-16 21-33 17 52 Three-point goals: 7-21 (Washington 2-6, Cheadle 0-1, Kopatich 2-5, Calvert 0-2, O’Neal 3-7). Assists: 10 (Umeri 1, Washington 2, Christopher 3, Cheadle 1, Calvert 3). Turnovers: 19 (Washington 1, Christopher 4, Cheadle 1, Kopatich 1, Calvert 2, Brown 2, O’Neal 1, Robertson 2, Manning-Allen 2, team 3). Blocked shots: 4 (Brown 1, Manning-Allen 3). Steals: 14 (Washington 4, Cheadle 1, Kopatich 1, Lott 2, Calvert 1, Brown 1, O’Neal 1, Robertson 2, Manning-Allen 1).

OKLAHOMA (89)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Nancy Mulkey 17 1-4 3-4 1-4 1 5 Peyton Little 33 7-11 2-2 1-4 0 16 Gabbi Ortiz 27 4-6 2-2 2-6 1 12 M. Manning 29 8-9 0-0 2-7 3 19 Gioya Carter 12 5-7 1-1 1-2 2 11 V. Pierre-Louis 19 3-7 1-2 3-7 3 7 L. Williams 8 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 2 T. Edwards 11 0-2 3-4 0-2 1 3 Derica Wyatt 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Morgan Rich 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 Gileysa Penzo 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 I. Odimgbe 4 0-1 0-0 1-2 2 0 McKenna Treece 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Chelsea Dungee 24 3-6 1-1 0-0 0 7 team 3-5 Totals 35-59 13-16 14-42 16 89 Three-point goals: 6-13 (Little 0-3, Ortiz 2-4, Manning 3-3, Carter 0-1, Kellogg 1-1, Dungee 0-1). Assists: 20 (Little 2, Ortiz 5, Manning 4, Carter 1, Edwards 5, Wyatt 1, Dungee 2). Turnovers: 18 (Little 5, Manning 3, Pierre-Louis 4, Williams 2, Edwards 1, Penzo 1, Treece 1, team 1). Blocked shots: 13 (Mulkey 8, Little 1, Pierre-Louis 3, Treece 1). Steals: 10 (Little 1, Ortiz 1, Manning 2, Pierre-Louis 1, Edwards 2, Kellogg 1, Dungee 2).

Kansas 13 15 13 11 — 52 Oklahoma 24 23 24 18 — 89

Technical fouls: None. Officials: Lisa Mattingly, Laua Morris, Maj Forsberg.

Attendance: 8,456.

Thursday, February 2, 2017

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Internet sensation Buffalomeat signs with Illinois State

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Kobe Buffalomeat was sitting at his desk during second hour at Lawrence High on Wednesday morning when the world as he knew it changed.

It may not be changed forever and it may not be something others remember much past Wednesday, but the LHS senior’s 15-minute brush with fame had a wild impact on Buffalomeat, his friends and his family.

After signing his national letter of intent to play football at Illinois State before the start of school, Buffalomeat grabbed his jacket and headed out the door, prepared for what he thought would be another normal day.

There’s no doubt that signing day was big. But for an athlete who did not even decide to play football until the summer before his senior season, there was still a fair amount of awe and uncertainty about what the game had actually given him.

And then the Tweets came and never stopped.

After receiving his letter

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LAWRENCE HIGH SENIOR KOBE BUFFALOMEAT, second from left, joins teammates Cole Brungardt (Kansas), Trey Moore (Emporia State) and Jacob Unruh (Fort Hays State) in signing letters of intent to play college football at an after school ceremony Wednesday at LHS. His unique name made Buffalomeat a Twitter sensation throughout the day on Wednesday and the 6-foot-7 offensive lineman is scheduled to appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” tonight. just after 7:45 a.m., the football office at Illinois State Tweeted out the official announcement that the big kid with the unique name had joined the program.

“After that, it just blew up from there,” Buffalomeat said.

Ten Retweets here, 14 more there, another five here and even more after that. Before noon, Buf-

falomeat had become a nationally known name and even was trending on Twitter.

LHS football coach Dirk Wedd, who spent the morning at a jury selection, said his phone dinged the entire way from the courthouse to his car. When it stopped, Wedd had 125 alerts, inquiries and text messages from people want-

Firebirds’ Dineen inks with Kansas

By Bobby Nightengale

ing to confirm that Buffalomeat’s name was real.

ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Jimmy Kimmel and dozens of others reached out to get a piece of the 6-foot-7, 285-pound offensive lineman who plans to grayshirt next year and red-shirt the year after that before beginning his actual playing career.

Buffalomeat, who said he did not even imagine playing college football until he was named first-team all-Sunflower League following the Lions’ 6-4 season, is scheduled to appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” tonight, adding yet another wild wrinkle to an unforgettable day.

“I never thought I’d be signing to play football somewhere,” said Buffalomeat, the last of three LHS multi-sport varsity athletes to play for the Lions during the past decade. “It just all worked out. All those practices, all those sprints, all those tough days, it was all worth it.”

Added Wedd: “It’s been an unbelievable fairytale and he’s become a heck of a football player.”

Buffalomeat was one of

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As soon as Free State High senior Jay Dineen woke up Wednesday, he quickly filled out paperwork and sent it to the University of Kansas.

After dreaming of playing for the Jayhawks, it was finally a reality.

Dineen sent in his letter of intent in the morning and celebrated at Free State’s signing ceremony after school in the Black Box Theatre. Dineen signed alongside long snapper Drew Wise (Missouri), cornerback Zack Sanders (Missouri State), lineman Chase Houk (Baker) and quarterback Dallas Crittenden (William Jewell).

The 6-foot-2, 235-pound Dineen will join his older brother Joe, at the linebacker position for the Jayhawks.

Plus he’s in a long tradition of family members to attend Kansas. His mother, Jodi Oelschlager played volleyball at KU, his grandfather Ron Oelschlager was a running back for the Jayhawks and a great-grandfather played basketball under Phog Allen.

Dineen plans on wearing the No. 43 at KU, the same number his grandfather wore at Kansas and it was his dad’s number when he played football.

“I think a number means a lot,” said Dineen, who broke several school records for tackles. “Joe was No. 29 because of Andre (Maloney). I think

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FREE STATE FOOTBALL PLAYERS CHAT with each other before their signing ceremony Wednesday in the Black Box Theatre. From left: Chase Houk, Jay Dineen, Zack Sanders, Dallas Crittenden and Drew Wise. your number means something to you so I’m very excited for it.”

Dineen committed to the Jayhawks last spring and kept his same enthusiasm throughout the year. He said he frequently texts with other KU recruits in group messages and he met a lot of the out-of-state recruits when they were on their official visits two weeks ago.

“I love this kid, man,” Kansas football coach David Beaty said. “What a great, great energy guy. A dude that can really play now. He will knock you out.”

At the signing ceremony, more than 100 supporters of the Free State football program — students, teammates, teachers — filled the room with the signees.

Sanders, who set sev-

eral receiving records at Free State, sent Missouri State his letter of intent around 7 a.m.

“It was really cool knowing this big of a crowd supports all of us and everything,” Sanders said. “That’s a great feeling.”

Wise’s recruitment picked up in the last week. He took a visit to Missouri on Saturday and committed the next day as a preferred walk on.

He said he wavered whether he would be able to play Div. I football as a special teams specialist, but he was thrilled to sign with Missouri, only receiving a few friendly jabs in Lawrence.

“My dad kind of grew up not liking Missouri,” Wise said, “so it’s a little funny that I ended up there.”

four LHS football players to sign letters of intent at an after-school ceremony attended by more than 100 friends, family members, coaches and mentors.

Cole Brungardt, the Lions’ all-Sunflower League kicker during the past two seasons, joined the Kansas football program as a preferred walkon and fellow teammates Trey Moore (Emporia State) and Jacob Unruh (Fort Hays State) sat at the front of the room and delivered one final act as football teammates.

The moment was equal parts heartfelt and comedic, with each player thanking friends and family and taking light-hearted shots at themselves and Wedd.

Asked whether he thought his newfound fame would follow him to his new school in Illinois, Buffalomeat laughed and said simply, “Who knows? I guess maybe when I get there people might remember the name, but it doesn’t really matter to me either way. It’s fun. I’ve enjoyed it. And I’m gonna ride the wave while it lasts.”

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Boston 31 18 .633 — Toronto 30 20 .600 1½ New York 22 29 .431 10 Philadelphia 18 30 .375 12½ Brooklyn 9 40 .184 22 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Washington 28 20 .583 — Atlanta 28 21 .571 ½ Charlotte 23 26 .469 5½ Miami 20 30 .400 9 Orlando 19 32 .373 10½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 33 15 .688 — Indiana 26 22 .542 7 Chicago 25 25 .500 9 Detroit 22 27 .449 11½ Milwaukee 21 27 .438 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 37 11 .771 — Houston 36 16 .692 3 Memphis 30 21 .588 8½ Dallas 19 30 .388 18½ New Orleans 19 31 .380 19 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 31 19 .620 — Oklahoma City 28 22 .560 3 Portland 22 28 .440 9 Denver 21 27 .438 9 Minnesota 19 30 .388 11½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 41 7 .854 — L.A. Clippers 31 18 .633 10½ Sacramento 19 30 .388 22½ L.A. Lakers 17 34 .333 25½ Phoenix 15 34 .306 26½ Tuesday’s Games Toronto 108, New Orleans 106, OT Washington 117, New York 101 Houston 105, Sacramento 83 San Antonio 108, Oklahoma City 94 Portland 115, Charlotte 98 L.A. Lakers 120, Denver 116 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 125, Minnesota 97 Indiana 98, Orlando 88 Boston 109, Toronto 104 Detroit 118, New Orleans 98 Miami 116, Atlanta 93 New York 95, Brooklyn 90 Dallas 113, Philadelphia 95 L.A. Clippers 124, Phoenix 114 Memphis 119, Denver 99 Utah 104, Milwaukee 88 Chicago 128, Oklahoma City 100 Charlotte at Golden State (n) Today’s Games L.A. Lakers at Washington, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Toronto at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Houston, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Denver, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Washington, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Utah, 8 p.m.

Denver at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Golden State at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

How the top 25 fared

Wednesday 1. Gonzaga (22-0) did not play. Next: at BYU, today.

2. Baylor (20-1) at No. 3 Kansas.

Next: vs. Kansas State, Saturday.

3. Kansas (19-2) vs. No. 2 Baylor.

Next: vs. Iowa State, Saturday.

4. Villanova (21-2) beat Providence 66-57. Next: vs. St. John’s, Saturday.

5. Arizona (20-2) did not play. Next: at Oregon State, today.

6. Louisville (18-4) did not play.

Next: at Boson College, Saturday.

7. West Virginia (18-4) did not play.

Next: vs. Oklahoma State, Saturday.

8. Kentucky (18-4) did not play. Next: at No. 24 Florida, Saturday.

9. Virginia (17-4) beat Virginia Tech 71-48. Next: at Syracuse, Saturday.

10. Wisconsin (19-3) did not play.

Next: vs. Indiana, Sunday.

11. UCLA (19-3) at Washington State.

Next: at Washington, Saturday.

12. North Carolina (20-4) did not play. Next: vs. No. 20 Notre Dame, Saturday.

13. Oregon (19-3) did not play. Next: vs. Arizona State, today.

14. Cincinnati (19-2) at Tulsa. Next: vs. UConn, Saturday.

15. Florida State (19-4) beat Miami 75-57. Next: vs. Clemson, Sunday.

16. Butler (18-5) did not play. Next: at Marquette, Tuesday.

17. Maryland (20-2) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 23 Purdue, Saturday.

18. Saint Mary’s (19-2) did not play.

Next: at Pacific, today.

19. South Carolina (17-4) at LSU. Next: vs. Georgia, Saturday.

20. Notre Dame (17-6) did not play. Next: at No. 12 North Carolina, Saturday.

21. Duke (17-5) did not play. Next: vs.

Pittsburgh, Saturday.

22. Creighton (20-3) did not play.

Next: vs. Xavier, Saturday.

23. Purdue (18-5) beat No. 25 Northwestern 80-59. Next: at No. 17 Maryland, Saturday.

24. Florida (16-5) did not play. Next: vs. Missouri, today.

25. Northwestern (18-5) lost to No. 23 Purdue 80-59. Next: vs. Illinois, Tuesday.

Lawrence High girls pick up first win against Olathe East since 2010

By Shane Jackson sjackson@ljworld.com

Olathe — The song “All I Do Is Win” blared through the visiting locker room at Olathe East High School.

Many players of the Lawrence High girls basketball team couldn’t refrain from shouting the lyrics at the top of their lungs in the moments following a 58-46 victory Wednesday. It’s a common scene after every win since coach Jeff Dickson took over the program.

“We have been doing that the last three years,” Dickson said. “We wanted to give them something to look forward to.

It’s just one more thing to rally around. That’s our victory song, so hopefully for us, we want to hear that every game.”

But this particular post-game karaoke had a special feeling. After all, it was the first such time the song was played following a meeting against the Hawks.

The Lions (10-3, No. 8 in Class 6A) led for every second of Wednesday’s contest to ultimately end a seven-game losing streak against their league foe. In fact, it marked their first win against Olathe East (9-4, No. 6 in 6A) since Feb. 12, 2010 — which coincidentally, was the very same year that their now tra-

ditional post-game song was released.

“It’s a really good win, they are really good competition,” senior Olivia Lemus said. “From my experience, I don’t really remember beating them.

But it was just nice to come out with a win.”

Lemus, along with fellow senior Skylar Drum, knew this was their final chance to defeat the Hawks. Entering the game, they had been on the losing end on four different occasions, including last year’s one-point loss and a sub-state defeat their freshman year.

This time around, the Lions weren’t going to take any chances as they stormed out to an early

lead. Lawrence leaped out to a 10-4 advantage from the opening tip, set up by a pair of 3-pointers from junior E’lease Stafford. Stafford finished with a team-high 17 points, going 4-of-10 from the floor.

“She is a key player for us,” said Lemus, who had 15 points herself. “She helps the offense flow a lot. To have her on a roll like she did, it only helps the team.”

LHS traded buckets for much of the second period, as Drum recorded seven of her nine points in the frame. They went into the intermission with an eight-point lead, 24-16.

In the third quarter, the Hawks trimmed the defi-

cit to four with 5:48 to go before Stafford went on a personal 8-0 run, aided by another set of consecutive triples. Lemus and Stafford accounted for all 15 of the team’s third quarter points as LHS pushed its advantage to double digits.

However, just as the Lions began to get comfortable, the Hawks made them sweat a bit. Olathe East went on a 15-1 run in less than two minutes to pull within two possessions at the 2:37 mark. Rather than falter, Lawrence knocked down eight free throw attempts to seal the victory.

“When they cut it to six, I was like ‘OK, fingers crossed,’” Dickson said.

“We got just enough free throws down the stretch.

That game is obviously a super close game, and the score does not indicate how close it really was.”

Lawrence will travel to Shawnee Mission South at 5:30 p.m. Friday.

LAWRENCE (58) Hannah Stewart 0-1 2-4 2, Olivia Lemus 6-12 1-3 15, Asia Goodwin 1-3 3-4 5, E’lease Stafford 4-10 5-6 17, Chisom Ajekwu 1-8 4-6 6, Sammy Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Skylar Drum 3-4 3-3 9, Tyrin Cosey 2-3 0-0 4. Totals: 17-42 18-26 58.

OLATHE EAST (46) Caroline Hoppock 2-7 0-0 4, Sydney Wilson 7-21 7-9 21, Cameron Kincaid 0-4 0-0 0, Regan Schumacher 5-12 0-2 10, Katie Gleason 1-3 0-0 2, Makenna Winemiller 1-6 0-0 2, Savanna Perez 2-3 0-0 5, Jordan Rehagen 1-5 0-0 2.

Totals: 19-61 7-11 46.

Lawrence 13 11 15 19 — 58 Olathe East 9 7 9 21 — 46 Three-point goals: Lawrence 6-12 (Stafford 4, Lemus 2); Olathe East 1-13 (Perez). Fouled out: None. Turnovers: Lawrence 16, Olathe East 9.

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BOX SCORE BAYLOR (68) MIN FG FT REB PF TP

m-a m-a o-t J. Lual-Acuil Jr. 30 4-11 1-2 3-8 3 10 J. Motley 35 7-11 1-2 5-10 1 16 Manu Lecomte 38 6-11 0-0 0-1 1 16 I. Wainwright 27 3-8 0-0 2-3 4 8 Al Freeman 26 1-6 0-0 2-6 3 2 Jake Lindsey 19 1-5 0-0 0-2 5 2 Nuni Omot 2 0-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 King McClure 11 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 0 Terry Maston 12 6-12 2-2 4-5 1 14 team

1-2 Totals 28-67 4-6 17-38 21 68 Three-point goals: 8-22 (Lual-Acuil Jr. 1-3, Motley 1-1, Lecomte 4-6, Wainwright 2-6, Freeman 0-4, McClure 0-1). Assists: 15 (Motley 3, Lecomte 4, Wainwright 1, Freeman 4, Lindsey 3). Turnovers: 15 (LualAcuil Jr. 2, Motley 3, Lecomte 3, Wainwright 2, Freeman 1, McClure 1, Maston 2, team 1). Blocked shots: 6 (Lual-Acuil Jr. 2, Wainwright 1, Lindsey 2, Maston 1). Steals: 10 (Lual-Acuil Jr. 1, Lecomte 2, Wainwright 4, Freeman 2, McClure 1).

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The Jayhawks roared.

Allen Fieldhouse exploded. And Kansas (20-2 overall, 8-1 Big 12) moved into sole possession of first place in the conference.

“We were really locked in,” Graham said of the game’s final meaningful possession. “It was the last possession of the game. We needed a stop, and we did a good job of flying around and getting that stop.”

Never one to pass out praise unless he believes it absolutely has been earned, Self whole-heartedly agreed.

“Our guys kept hanging in there and kept grinding and we really played good defense the last two or three minutes,” he said. “Really good.”

All week, as Kansas and Baylor tumbled toward a Wednesday clash at the top of the Big 12 Conference standings, the focus was on how this Baylor team was different than previous Scott Drew squads, because of its ability to defend.

And then, for two magnificent hours at Allen Fieldhouse, where big shot was answered by big shot and every tough play seemingly was answered by an even tougher play, the Jayhawks showed that, while Baylor may be playing a slightly different brand of basketball, they are closing in on a return to their old ways.

In a season marked by Kansas’ ability to outscore opponents and win with high-powered offense, the Jayhawks won this one on the defensive end, with the best moments saved for the very end.

“They’re talented and they’re competitive,” Self said when asked what traits allow his team to pull out wins like this.

“It’s been a unique period of time, but the guys’ attitudes are great and I thought tonight was definitely a big boy game. It took everything we could (give) to get the ‘W.’” The Jayhawks opened in attack mode and were

KANSAS (73) MIN FG FT REB PF TP

m-a m-a o-t Landen Lucas 30 2-6 1-2 4-11 3 5 Frank Mason III 38 3-12 12-12 0-4 1 19 Devonté Graham 35 5-9 0-0 0-2 1 13 Svi Mykhailiuk 34 3-5 2-4 0-2 1 11 Josh Jackson 38 8-13 5-9 6-10 2 23 Vick Lagerald 14 0-4 0-0 0-1 1 0 Dwight Coleby 6 0-3 0-0 3-6 0 0 Mitch Lightfoot 5 1-1 0-0 0-1 1 2 team

1-1 Totals 22-53 20-27 14-38 10 73 Three-point goals: 9-20 (Mason 1-3, Graham 3-6, Mykhailiuk3-5, Jackson 2-4, Vick 0-2). Assists: 11 (Mason 6, Graham 2, Mykhailiuk 1, Jackson 1, Vick 1).

Turnovers: 15 (Lucas 2, Mason 2, Graham 1, Mykhailiuk 2, Jackson 5, Vick 1, Coleby 2). Blocked shots: 5 (Jackson 2, Coleby 1, Lightfoot 2). Steals: 7 (Lucas 2, Mason 3, Graham 1, Jackson 1).

Baylor 34 34 — 68 Kansas 28 45 — 73 Technical fouls: None. Officials: Doug Sirmons, Ray Natili, Patrick Adams.

Attendance: 16,300.

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KANSAS GUARDS JOSH JACKSON (11) AND SVIATOSLAV MYKHAILIUK (10) trap Baylor forward Johnathan Motley, creating a turnover by Motley with seconds remaining Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse. not shy about driving against the zone or finding freshman Josh Jackson (23 points, 10 rebounds) in the high post, where he has been so good all season and was again good on Wednesday, both driving to create for himself and remaining poised and looking for the open man.

Meanwhile, Baylor big man Johnathan Motley (16 points, 10 rebounds) had a monster first half, tallying 14 points and six rebounds and creating problems for the Jayhawks all over the floor.

Kansas adjusted by trapping Motley on the catch a few times and throwing yet another

zone at the Bears at other times in the second half.

And the Jayhawks needed every trick in their bag to step into the winner’s circle.

The Bears delivered the first true punch of the game with just over six minutes to play in the first half. After trading baskets and rebounds,

turnovers and missed opportunities for the first 13 minutes of the game, Baylor turned a 19-18 deficit into a 28-21 lead with a 10-2 run that spanned two minutes.

Motley scored two baskets during the run and Lecomte and Jo LualAcuil each cashed in from 3-point range to push the

Bears to a six-point halftime edge.

Baylor (20-2, 7-2) actually had a chance to go up 10 with just over a minute remaining in the first half, but KU forward Mitch Lightfoot held his ground against a hard-charging Terry Maston in the post and offered just enough resistance to force Maston to fumble the ball out of bounds. Mason connected on a tough floater on the other end and Kansas trailed just 34-28 at halftime instead of facing the possibility of a double-digit deficit.

“I didn’t know if we were gonna get a rebound in the first half,” Self said.

“But the second half that flipped, and then we actually out-rebounded them.”

It wasn’t all defense that won this one, of course. Kansas shot 45 percent from 3-point range and got a 12-for-12 effort at the free-throw line from leading scorer Mason, who finished with 19 points, six assists and four rebounds.

Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS GUARD JOSH JACKSON (11) COMES AWAY WITH THE BALL against Baylor guard King McClure.

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help each other win the game.”

Jackson carried the team in the first half with CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C 46 percent of the points (13) and 44 percent of the Even with Kansas splashed across his chest rebounds (seven) and made a huge play that and a No. 1 Rivals rankbroke a tie with 2:26 left ing on his shoulders, Jackson can take comfort and sent Kansas on its way. in knowing he’s never He pump-faked a going to face anyone who 3-pointer from the right wants to beat him worse corner and drove it in for than he wants to win. a two-handed slam that Veteran guards Frank Mason and Devonté Gra- put KU up, 66-64.

“I had made a three ham play huge parts in a couple of possessions Kansas knowing how to before and I figured if I win close games and so does Jackson, a freshman up-faked, the guy would in name only. They make jump and Landen (Lucas) helped really tremenKansas such a clutch dously, sealing the other team. big on the baseline so he “Our will to win couldn’t come and conis what makes them test my shot. So it was an clutch,” Jackson said. easy bucket.”

“This group of guys, Kansas led the rest of everybody on the team, the way and coach Bill the thing that comes Self called it a “big, big first is just winning. We basket, maybe the biggest get it in tight, we come basket in the game.” together and we all just It came from the most do what we have to do to

talented player on the floor.

“He’s a great, great player,” Self said. “I think he’s been great all year long, but I really think he’s even more comfortable now than what he has been. He’s shooting the ball better. He made 2 of 4 shots from three tonight. That makes him 10 for his last 18 from three.”

The stats confirm the accuracy of the quote.

“I feel like part of the reason my shot has gotten a little better, I’m not thinking about it much and just playing basketball,” Jackson said.

He has made zoning Kansas tough because of how well he passes from the middle of it.

This was his first experience against a zone that covered so much space, so he adjusted.

“Normally, when I get the ball in there, those guys are looking to

pass out,” Jackson said.

“But those guys were so long and they were just fanned out on the wings.

They just left me open in the middle and I did a pretty decent job of attacking the basket, but I feel like I could have done a little bit better at attacking the zone.”

And he probably will be next time he faces it, because he’s smart enough to adapt.

“He’s beyond his years.

He’s a freshman but he’s not really a freshman,” Self said. “A lot of these kids who come out now, they’re really further along than what you think because of all the experiences they’ve had, USA Basketball, playing for gold medals and things like that. Everything that he does is not a surprise to me. We’ve gotten to the point where Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo we expect it and we’d be disappointed if we did KANSAS GUARD SVIATOSLAV MYKHAILIUK (10) puts up a not.”

3-pointer over Baylor forward Johnathan Motley.

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KANSAS GUARD DEVONTÉ GRAHAM (4) SWOOPS UNDER BAYLOR FORWARD JO LUAL-ACUIL JR. for a bucket during the second half Wednesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

NOTEBOOK

Big 12 title streak rarely comes up

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

These are the games that get remembered when a team rips off a streak that is talked about in every conference town and at the beginning and end of every college basketball season.

Third-ranked Kansas took a huge step toward winning a record-tying 13th consecutive Big 12 Conference regular season title with its 73-68 victory over No. 2 Baylor on Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse.

And that thought never really crossed the minds of the Jayhawk players until it was over.

“We haven’t even talked about that,” KU coach Bill Self said after the victory. “We mentioned it before the season, you know, ‘Hey, do you want this to be the team that doesn’t do it,’ or whatnot.

And we know it’s gonna be hard.... If we hadn’t have won tonight, obviously, we weren’t out of the race, but we know it would’ve been more of an uphill climb. I think (when) you get three or four more games into it then guys will start thinking about that more.”

Added KU senior Frank Mason III, shedding a little light onto why the topic rarely comes up: “I think everyone knows what position we’re in and we’ve gotta make it happen.”

Despite the fact that they have not talked much about continuing the streak, the Jayhawks were well aware of how big Wednesday’s victory was toward achieving that goal.

“It was big,” Devonté Graham said. “It was for first place. We knew we had to come out and get that W so we could remain in first and now we just need to take that momentum and keep it rolling.”

Lucas big late After a rough first half in which he struggled to get the ball in the basket, Kansas forward Landen Lucas, who, once again, stayed out of serious foul trouble, delivered a couple of monster buckets that Kansas absolutely had to have.

The first came with Kansas leading, 57-56, with just under six minutes to play. Lucas bur-

Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS FORWARD LANDEN LUCAS (33) FIGHTS FOR POSITION with Baylor guard Ishmail Wainright, front, and Baylor forward Johnathan Motley during the second half. ied Baylor big man Jo Lual-Acuil Jr. in the paint and caught the ball deep enough to find an easy finish. The second, which came in the final two minutes and put Kansas up 70-66, came with Lucas using his lower-body strength to just power his way to the rim.

“He was struggling at first in the first half,” Graham said. “Everybody talked to him in the locker room at halftime and told him it was his half, the second half, and (we were) just trying to keep throwing him the ball and telling him to go straight up and finish through the contact. He came through with some big buckets.”

Added Self: “He didn’t dunk it on anybody, but he did a good job twice of backing guys down and showing a nice touch.

I thought he was really good. He flipped a switch at halftime and I thought he was great.”

Self also was pleased with the minutes that Mitch Lightfoot (2 points, 2 blocks in 5 minutes) and Dwight Coleby (6 rebounds in 6 minutes) gave in support of Lucas up front.

“I thought Mitch looked like Dwight against Kentucky and Dwight looked like Mitch against Kentucky tonight,” Self said.

“They were still good haven’t been made aware minutes that they got us... of anything.”

It was a good team win.”

Vick played 14 minutes and was 0-of-4 from the Newman ill floor, 0-of-2 from 3-point Self said after the game range and added one rethat red-shirt transfer Ma- bound, one assist, one lik Newman, who cannot turnover and a foul. play this season, was not Meanwhile, sophomore in attendance on Wednes- Carlton Bragg Jr. also day because he had the flu was not in attendance on and team doctors told him Wednesday night as he to stay away. continues to serve an inAbsent in the physi- definite suspension that cal sense, Newman was has kept him out of KU’s not fully removed from past two games. Asked if supporting his team, as there was any change in he watched on television Bragg’s status, Self said, and Tweeted throughout. “No, no, no. He’s still suspended indefinitely.”

Self on Vick report Asked about a recent This and that...

Kansas now leads the report from the Kansas City Star in which soph- all-time series with Bayomore guard Lagerald lor, 28-4, including a Vick reportedly was the 14-0 mark in Allen Fieldsubject of a KU investiga- house.... KU now has won tion into whether he hit at least 20 games for the a female student in late 28th consecutive sea2015, Self read a prepared son.... The win gave Self statement and offered no nine consecutive home details about anything re- wins over top-five teams, which is the longest aclating to the report.

“I have been told that tive streak in the counI cannot comment on a try.... KU’s 10 fouls were university investigation the fewest by a KU team or whether one is or is in conference play since not taking place or has 2011, when KU committed ever taken place,” Self just seven fouls against said. “Due to previous Iowa State.... Mason’s 12practice by the univer- for-12 night at the free sity and the athletic de- throw line was the most partment, I would not be free throws made without giving any details of such a miss since Darnell Valinvestigation. What was entine also went 12-for-12 reported was reported. I against Oklahoma in 1980.

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KANSAS GUARD JOSH JACKSON (11) rejects a shot from Baylor guard Al Freeman.

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KANSAS’ JOSH JACKSON (11) AND Landen Lucas battle down low with Baylor’s Johnathan Motley (5).

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Such amounts may be paid in whole or in part within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this Ordinance. Section 3. Notification. The City Clerk shall notify the owners of the properties described in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 attached hereto insofar as known to said City Clerk, of the amounts of their respective assessments; and, said notice shall further state that unless such assessments are paid within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this Ordinance, bonds will be issued therefor, and the amount of such assessment will be collected in installments with interest. Section 4. Certification. Any amount of special assessments not paid within the time prescribed in Section 2 hereof shall be certified by the City Clerk to the Clerk of Douglas County, Kansas, in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are certified and will be collected in 10 annual installments, together with interest on such amounts at a rate not exceeding the maximum rate therefor as prescribed by the Act. Interest on the assessed amount remaining unpaid between the effective date of this Ordinance and the date the first installment is payable, but not less than the amount of interest due during the coming year on any outstanding bonds issued to finance the Improvements, shall be added to the first installment. The interest for one year on all unpaid installments shall be added to each subsequent installment until paid. Section 5. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval and publication once in the official City newspaper. PASSED by the governing body of the City on December 6, 2016 and signed and APPROVED by the Mayor.

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EXHIBIT A-1 RESOLUTION NO. 7116 - PIONEER RIDGE CENTER BENEFIT DISTRICT Amount of Description of Property Proposed Assessment Lot 1 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas $1,515.85 Lot 2 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas 1,515.85 Lot 3 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas 1,720.70 Part of Lot 5, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 501 Gateway Office Condominium Suite A 540.65 Part of Lot 5, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 501 Gateway Office Condominium Suite A-1 286.82 Part of Lot 5, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 501 Gateway Office Condominium Suite B 468.89 Part of Lot 5, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 501 Gateway Office Condominium Suite B-1 291.19 Lot 6 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas 1,556.82 Lot 8 less the south 135 feet of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas 2,020.39 Lot 9 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas 1,692.84

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PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6C Lot 10 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Part of Lot 11, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 3300 Mesa Way Condominium Suite A Part of Lot 11, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 3300 Mesa Way Condominium Suite B Part of Lot 11, Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, 3300 Mesa Way Condominium Suite C Lot 12 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Lot 13 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Lot 14 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Lot 15 of the Pioneer Ridge Center Subdivision, City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas TOTAL

1,689.97 641.42 427.62 641.42 1,515.85 1,505.61 1,515.85 1,515.85 $21,063.59

EXHIBIT A-2 RESOLUTION NO. 7117 - PIONEER RIDGE BENEFIT DISTRICT

Description of Property Lot 1 of the Pioneer Ridge Subdivision (replat of Lots 44 and 45, Block 5), City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Lot 2 of the Pioneer Ridge Subdivision (replat of Lots 44 and 45, Block 5), City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Lot 3 of the Pioneer Ridge Subdivision (replat of Lots 44 and 45, Block 5), City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas Lot 4 of the Pioneer Ridge Subdivision (replat of Lots 44 and 45, Block 5), City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas TOTAL _______

(First published in the to the highest bidder for Lawrence Daily Journal- cash in hand, at the Lower World February 2, 2017) Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center of AUCTIONED TO the Courthouse at LawHIGHEST BIDDER rence, Douglas County, IMPOUNDED VEHICLES & Kansas, on February 9, PERSONAL PROPERTY WILL 2017, at 10:00 AM, the folBE AUCTIONED TO THE lowing real estate: HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH ON OR AFTER FEBRUARY 3, Lots 7 and 8, in Block 36, AKC LAB PUPPIES 2017 @ 10AM IF NOT in the City of Eudora, in 4 Female • 1 Male CLAIMED AND ALL Douglas County, Kansas, Chocolate CHARGES PAID IN FULL. commonly known as 1036 champion bloodlines, SOLD AS IS AT REDLINE Walnut Street, Eudora, KS blocky heads, parents TOW 19663 LINWOOD RD., 66025 (the “Property”) on site, vet & DNA LINWOOD KS 66052 checked, shots, to satisfy the judgment in 2010 DODGE NITRO hunters & companions. the above-entitled case.

VIN: 1D4PU2GK4AW146229 The sale is to be made Born 12/21/16, Ready 2/8/16. $650. without appraisement and Call 785-865-6013 1998 SUBARU FORESTER subject to the redemption VIN: JF1SF6359WH764043 period as provided by law, _______ and further subject to the approval of the Court. For (First published in the more information, visit Lawrence Daily Journal- www.Southlaw.com World January 19, 2017) Kenneth M McGovern, IN THE DISTRICT COURT Sheriff Douglas County, OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Kansas KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Bank of America, N.A. Kristen G. Stroehmann Plaintiff, (KS #10551) 13160 Foster, Suite 100 MALTESE ACA PUPS vs.

Overland Park, KS Vet checked, 1st shots & 66213-2660 wormed. Raised around Stephanie J Hamilton and (913) 663-7600 children. The perfect ValJames J Hamilton, et al.

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Defendants.

Attorneys for Plaintiff Call or Text 785-448-8440 (195414) Case No. 16CV400 _______ Court Number: 5 Pursuant to K.S.A. (First published in the Chapter 60 Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on February 2, 2017) NOTICE OF SALE SUMMARY OF EUDORA Under and by virtue of an CITY ORDINANCE 1060 Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District AN ORDINANCE AMENDNorwich Terrier Puppy: Court of Douglas County, ING THE CITY OF EUDORA Female puppy, intelligent, Kansas, the undersigned MUNICIPAL CODE OF ORloving, playful. All shots Sheriff of Douglas County, DINANCES CHAPTER 16, current. Wheaten in color.

Kansas, will offer for sale ZONING REGULATIONS TO Champion bloodlines. at public auction and sell UPDATE HOME OCCUPA785-842-4841

TION REQUIREMENTS. A complete text of this Ordinance may be obtained or viewed free of charge at the Office of the Eudora City Clerk.

Additionally, the full text of this Ordinance may be viewed on the City’s official website www.cityofeudoraks.gov for a minimum of one week following the date of this publication. Eudora City Attorney David E. Waters certifies this summary pursuant to K.S.A. 12-3001, K.S.A. 12-3007, et seq. _______ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on February 2, 2017)

Amount of Proposed Assessment $7,131.27 10,883.22 4,297.14 3,961.82 $26,273.45

“conservation area” under the Act and created a redevelopment district. The Ordinance also approved a preliminary plan for the redevelopment district.

A complete text of this Ordinance may be obtained or viewed free of charge at the Office of the Eudora City Clerk.

Additionally, the full text of this Ordinance may be viewed on the City’s official website www.cityofeudoraks.gov for a minimum of one (1) week following the date of this publication.

Eudora City Attorney David E. Waters certifies this summary pursuant to K.S.A. 12-3001, K.S.A. 12-3007, et seq. _______

SUMMARY OF EUDORA CITY ORDINANCE 1061

(First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalAN ORDINANCE OF THE World February 2, 2017) GOVERNING BODY OF THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS CITY OF EUDORA, KANSAS, ESTABLISHING A REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT Sealed proposals will be WITHIN THE CITY AND received by the City of MAKING CERTAIN FIND- Lawrence, Kansas, in the CONJUNCTION Office of the City Clerk, 6 INGS IN THEREWITH (NOTTING- East Sixth Street until 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, February HAM PROJECT).

14, 2017, for the following: On January 23, 2017, the City Commission for the City of Eudora, Kansas, adopted Ordinance 1061.

The Ordinance was adopted pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 12-1770 et seq., as amended (the “Act”), for the purpose of creating a redevelopment district for possible projects to be financed, in part, from tax increment revenues.

Following a public hearing, the Ordinance made certain findings of fact that certain real property located within the City, commonly known as the Nottingham property, qualifies as a

BID #1703 - K-10 Highway & 27th Street Traffic Signal Improvements Copies of the Notice to Contractors and specifications may be obtained at the Finance Department at the above address.

The City Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities.

City of Lawrence, Kansas Sherri Riedemann City Clerk _______

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