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As police chief search begins, Markus outlines priorities

By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

The City of Lawrence has begun its search for a new police chief, and city leaders are looking for someone ready to lead a police department in the midst of

significant changes.

“I think you need to have strong leadership capabilities,” City Manager Tom Markus said. “It’s a large department, and there are a lot of issues in the city that are currently underway for that department, so some-

one that’s had some experience in a leadership capacity in the past is something I’m looking for.”

Markus said the police chief, who reports directly to the city manager, will have to address issues such as the initiation of the de-

partment’s mental health squad and the ongoing work of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to identify alternates to the traditional criminal justice system. He said there is also the long-standing discussion about adequate

staffing and a future police facility.

“All those issues kind of come to bear in terms of what a person’s skill set is and experience in the past has been,” Markus said.

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K-12 cuts would freeze hiring in Lawrence

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Volunteers can help

By Elvyn Jones

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ith her background, Pat Hooge laughs at the suggestion that her AARP volunteer work is stressful.

For the past six years, Hooge has been the Lawrence volunteer coordinator for the AARP’s annual tax preparation site.

That requires her to spend around four hours each weekday from Feb. 1 to the April tax filing deadline in the basement of Central United Methodist Church, 1501 Massachusetts St., helping the volunteers with questions during computer

ejones@ljworld.com work sessions, filling in when needed and handling paperwork.

The volunteers at the site process the state and federal taxes of of about 36 people a day. It’s a big responsibility, but Hooge, who is retired, said her former career prepared her for handling stress.

“I was an air traffic controller,” she said. “This is more relaxing.”

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Lawrence School District Superintendent Kyle Hayden said a budget-cutting bill in the Kansas Senate would drain the district’s reserves while forcing the district to freeze hiring and make other cuts for the rest of this school year.

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Where to find free tax help AARP • Lawrence — To schedule

an appointment for the site at Central United Methodist Church, call 785-691-9737 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

• Baldwin City, Ottawa and Oskaloosa — Call 888-227-7669 to learn hours, dates and locations of sites.

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School students provide volunteer income tax assistance until the April 18 filing deadline on a first-come, first-served basis, except March 18-26. The service is available for Kansas, Missouri and Illinois residents with incomes of less than $54,000 in 2016. No itemized returns will be

processed. The times and locations of sites are: • Mondays 6-8:45 p.m., Green Hall, Wheat Law Library, third floor computer lab, 1535 W. 15th St. • Wednesdays, 3-5:45 p.m., Green Hall, Wheat Law Library, third floor computer lab, 1535 W. 15th St. • Noon-2 p.m. Feb. 16, March 2, March 16, April 6 and April 13, Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St. • 3-4:45 p.m. Feb. 23, March 9, March 30, April 6 and April 13, Ballard Center, 708 Elm St. • Fridays, 5:15-6:30 p.m., Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority Resident Services, 1600 Haskell Ave., Apt. 187.

• Saturdays, 10-11:45 a.m., Green Hall, Wheat Law Library, third floor computer lab, 1535 W. 15th St.

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Crowd pushes for expansion

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Supporters of a bill to expand the Kansas Medicaid program turned out in such numbers Wednesday that Statehouse officials had to set up dozens of chairs outside the committee room so people could listen to testimony over a loudspeaker.

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KU Cancer Center hits milestone in quest for NCI certification

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“We would freeze some of our internal spending,” Hayden said. “Purchasing, classroom materials, eliminating professional development for the rest of the year, eliminating travel, a freeze on hiring, until we have more of an idea what things will look like for next year.”

The Senate is expected to vote today on a bill that is intended to close a projected $320 million revenue shortfall for the rest of this fiscal year. It calls for cutting nearly $128 million, or 5 percent of this year’s budget for K-12 education.

It also calls for cutting nearly $23 million from higher education, including $3.9 million from the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence and $3.2 million from the KU Medical Center. That would be on top of the

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That was the scene on the second day of testimony for a House bill that would take advantage of a provision in the federal Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, even as the new Trump administration in Washington and the Republican-controlled Congress are actively trying to dismantle that law.

“I know there’s some uncertainty with what’s happening in Washington, but we have an opportunity to take advantage and do what’s right for Kansas to protect our interests,” said David Jordan, executive director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas.

That group is a coalition of hospitals, health care providers and local chambers of commerce that all support the bill, which they say would extend health care coverage to 150,000 Kansans who currently don’t qualify for

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“This has been a really incredible team effort,” KU Cancer Center director Roy Jensen said.

“We have just outstanding folks that have really worked extraordinarily hard.”

There are currently 69 NCI-Designated Cancer Centers, located in 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to NCI. Of those, 47 are Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

There is an NCI-Designated Cancer Center in Omaha. The only NCIComprehensive Cancer Centers in neighboring states are in St. Louis and Denver.

These centers demonstrate an added depth and breadth of research, as well as substantial transdisciplinary research to bridge these scientific areas, according to KU. Comprehensive status also requires focus on population-based health directly affecting Kansans.

In all, KU Cancer Center has raised $453 million since 2004 to pursue NCI designation, including $62 million in the past two years, Jensen said.

However, the money isn’t just being used to pursue a designation, he said. It’s being used to create and strengthen efforts to fight cancer, which in turn leads to certification.

“To some extent that’s a distinction without a difference, because to get the designation, we have

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combined $10 million cut those two campuses took earlier this fiscal year.

Gov. Sam Brownback had proposed filling this year’s hole without significant spending cuts, mainly by liquidating $362 million of invested idle funds and repaying that money to the idle funds account over the next seven years.

Also, his budget plan, which covered the rest of this fiscal year and each of the next two years, called for not repaying a $92 million quarterly payment into the state pension system that was delayed last year, adding it to the system’s unfunded liability and continuing not to make the final quarterly payment into the system in 2018 and 2019.

But Republican leaders in the Senate said that would only push the state’s deficit back by a few years and that members of their caucus were insisting on some amount of cuts to restore “structural balance” to the state

budget.

“As a leadership team, what we’ve learned from our caucus, and extensive conversations with them, is everybody’s on board for a structurally balanced budget that doesn’t kick the can down the road, that doesn’t use one-time money, that doesn’t spend money that we don’t have or that doesn’t make payments that we’re obligated to make,” Senate Vice President Jeff Longbine, REmporia, told reporters during a briefing Tuesday.

GOP leaders argue that most school districts taking big cuts under the plan could absorb those cuts by spending down their cash reserves. A spreadsheet showing how each district would be affected indicates that the Lawrence district is holding more than $5.4 million in reserves, more than enough to absorb the cuts.

But Hayden said the district has been spend-

ing down those reserves, and that the Senate leadership plan would effectively wipe them out.

“We were receiving a great deal of criticism from the Legislature because we were carrying too many reserve funds, so we took the cue from them and began spending more and continued to give raises,” he said. “Mainly, that’s where it was going to hopefully keep the morale of our employees from imploding.”

“If we were to spend all of our budgeted funds so every department and every building spends everything they’ve been allocated, and they gut us with a $2.75 million decrease this year, it’ll drain our contingency reserve,” Hayden said.

There were signs Wednesday, however, that some in the Senate GOP caucus are not fully behind the leadership bill, especially freshman senators who campaigned saying they wanted to invest more in public schools.

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Medicaid but who don’t earn enough to qualify for subsidies so they can buy individual coverage on the exchange markets.

Meanwhile, Gov. Sam Brownback issued a statement Wednesday reiterating his opposition to Medicaid expansion.

“President Trump was elected having declared his intention to do away with Obamacare, and he has already taken action to alleviate its onerous regulatory and financial burden,” Brownback said.

“Kansas should not tie itself to this failed program of the past just before its inevitable demise.”

But Joe Reardon, who heads the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, said it’s not yet clear that Medicaid expansion will necessarily be repealed in whatever new health care plan comes out of Washington.

“We say that because we know many of the states that have already expanded Medicaid in their states are advocating for that expanded Medicaid to survive whatever

change that may occur,” he said. “That includes Republican governors from several states that have already expanded Medicaid.”

The Affordable Care Act allows states to expand Medicaid coverage to all individuals and households with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $33,600 a year for a family of four. The federal government pays 90-95 percent of the cost of enrolling those newly eligible patients.

State officials estimate that would cost the state general fund $31.8 million in the first year of operation, but it would bring in an estimated $512 million in federal reimbursements. In the following fiscal year, the state would spend $73.4 million but would draw down $966 million in federal funds.

Suzanne Emmons, a self-employed housekeeper from Allen County who is raising two grandchildren and helping to care for her 78-year-old mother, described her-

self as one of the 150,000 people who would gain health coverage through Medicaid expansion.

“I’m frustrated and sometimes angry that I now live in constant fear about what we’ll do if I get sick,” she said. “You see, I’m uninsured and in fact I’m one of the ablebodied people the Kansas government has thus far denied coverage.”

Emmons said she had private insurance before she took guardianship of her granddaughters. But with those children, her insurance became too expensive and fell into what is often called the “coverage gap.”

“Because I live in Kansas, a state that has not expanded Medicaid, I find myself earning too much to qualify for the current KanCare program and too little to qualify for the marketplace,” she said.

Meanwhile, local chamber officials said the hundreds of millions of federal dollars that the expansion would bring to Kansas would create jobs and stimulate local economies.

“KanCare expansion can help to create jobs, protect hospitals in Kansas communities and improve access to care for over 150,000 Kansans,” Hugh Carter of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce said in written testimony submitted to the panel.

“In addition to lost wages, the long-term costs associated with those unable to receive preventative care have a negative economic impact on communities,” he said. “Without KanCare expansion the uninsured continue to seek access to health care in the emergency rooms, which leads to increased costs for all Kansas taxpayers.”

Wednesday’s hearing was devoted to testimony from people in favor of the bill. Earlier this week, the panel heard neutral testimony from people explaining the details of the bill. Opponents of Medicaid expansion are scheduled to testify today.

More KU Cancer Center facts What is the KU Cancer Center?

The University of Kansas Cancer Center spans cancer research, education and clinical care. Key entities include the KU Medical Center; the KU Lawrence campus and its School of Pharmacy; KU Health System (formerly KU Hospital); KU School of Medicine — Wichita and Salina; and the Midwest Cancer Alliance (MCA). The MCA is the outreach arm of the cancer center and extends

to improve all aspects of our cancer center: the research, the depth and breadth of our programs, and our clinical operations,” Jensen said. “It’s hard to separate the two.”

Jensen cited the following among the KU Cancer Center’s major achievements since its initial designation in 2012: l Plans have been laid to bring aboard another NCI Consortium member: Children’s Mercy.

Jensen said ultimately NCI will decide whether to approve the partnership.

“It involves formalizing a legal agreement between the university and Children’s Mercy,” Jensen said. “Then there are also certain review criteria that have to be satisfied in terms of making sure that our clinical research efforts are in unison and that we have joint research projects and shared leadership

• KU — $72 million the latest cancer research • State of Kansas — and clinical trials across Kansas, enabling patients $54 million • Kansas Bioscience to receive leading-edge Authority — $47 million care close to home.

• Johnson County Edu— Source: KU Cancer cation Research Triangle Center — $41 million • KU Health System NCI designation (formerly KU Hospital) — funding $21 million Here are the institutional • Midwest Cancer Alliand regional commitments ance — $15 million made to the KU Cancer • Children’s Mercy — Center’s NCI designation $1 million efforts since 2004.

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and governance of the cancer center.”

Stowers Institute for Medical Research is another consortium partner. l The KU Cancer Center has significantly grown its “research enterprise,” Jensen said. In 2012, it had $50 million of total cancer-related research funding; now it’s $67 million, he said.

One research project that illustrates collaboration between the KU School of Pharmacy, the KU Lawrence campus, Stowers and Children’s Mercy is one led by Stowers investigator Linheng Li, Jensen said. Li discovered a few years ago that a particular protein plays a critical role in controlling cancer stem cells. A team used resources at the Lawrence campus to help identify a new drug to target the protein, and has opened a clinical trial at the KU Cancer Center,

with one also planned at Children’s Mercy.

“That’s actually how cancer centers are supposed to work,” Jensen said. l The KU Cancer Center also has brought 42 new investigators on board since being designated in 2012, Jensen said.

That includes full-time clinicians to basic scientists to “everything in between,” he said. Their work ranges from patient care to research, and they’re spread across entities including the university, KU Health System and the KU Cancer Center.

Demonstrating public health programs is a key component of the designation, and KU Cancer Center has been working on that, too.

Edward Ellerbeck is co-director of the KU Cancer Center’s cancer control and population health program. He also chairs the department of

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preventative medicine and public health in the KU School of Medicine.

Basically, Ellerbeck’s area is looking at what causes cancer and then supporting efforts to prevent it.

Specifically, the No. 1 cause of cancer in Kansas and western Missouri is tobacco use, he said.

Shrinking tobacco use in the region is a goal of the program, Ellerbeck said. The center also promotes other evidencebased practices that have been shown to reduce cancer rates, too, such as working with primary care providers statewide to increase colorectal cancer screening and HPV vaccinations.

“There’s some real winnable goals here,” Ellerbeck said. “If we’re ultimately successful, we’ll put our colleagues out of business. We would love to see the day.”

Gaining NCI-Comprehensive Cancer Center designation would garner a slight increase in funding for the KU Cancer Center.

The center currently gets NCI grant funding of $1.4 million a year, Jensen said. That would go up to $1.54 million a year with comprehensive designation.

Another major benefit is recruiting, Jensen said.

The higher designation helps attract outstanding people to the team.

If the comprehensive designation is not achieved, Jensen said, KU Cancer Center would likely try again at its next five-year renewal review.

— KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187.

Follow her on Twitter: @saramarieshep

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Baldwin City police seek men who left scene of shooting

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

The Baldwin City Police Department is attempting to identify two men seen leaving the scene of a shooting Tuesday evening.

Baldwin City Police Chief Greg Neis said the 26-yearold man who was shot is not

cooperating with investigators in the case. The man was shot shortly after 8 p.m.

Tuesday at 920 Deer Ridge Court in Baldwin City. He has refused to help identify two men who left the home after the shooting, Neis said.

Investigators do not think the man’s wound was the result of violent intent, the chief said.

“There’s nothing to indicate this was anything but an accidental shooting,” he said.

Neis said the single bullet that passed through the man’s lower abdomen did not hit any major organs, he said. The man is recovering in Overland Park Regional Hospital from the nonlife-threat-

ening wound, Neis said.

The slug was recovered during the execution of a search warrant, but Neis said he did not yet know its caliber. Police have not yet recovered the weapon, which police are assuming was a handgun, Neis said.

The man, who is a resident of the duplex in which the shooting occurred, has

stopped talking to investigators, Neis said. He previously told officers he accidentally shot himself, but that explanation was not consistent with the bullet’s trajectory, the chief said.

Two witnesses said they saw two men leave the scene shortly after the shooting, Neis said. Neither witness could iden-

tify the two men, he said.

“That’s the focus of our investigation — identifying those two men,” Neis said.

Those with information on the case may call the Baldwin City Police Department at 785594-3850 or the Douglas County Crime Stoppers Hotline at 785-843-8477.

Loophole could let 18-year-olds carry concealed weapons

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — The House Federal and State Affairs Committee put off voting on bills that would roll back parts of an upcoming mandate that people be allowed to carry concealed weapons in most public buildings, but it did hear testimony about a loophole in current law that would enable people as young as 18 to carry concealed firearms, including on college campuses.

That’s because while Kansas allows concealedcarry only for people 21 and older who are not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms, other states issue permits for people as young as 18.

And at least one of them, Maine, will even issue permits to 18-year-olds from other states.

Some members of the committee asked

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The days are challenging enough to keep her “little gray cells engaged,” which Hooge considers a good thing.

“When I get home, I feel like I need physical activity,” she said. “I’ve given myself a mental workout.

Then, I need to do something for my body.”

The biggest perk, though, is providing much-needed help, Hooge said.

“It’s an opportunity to give back,” she said. “Everybody has to do taxes. Many of the people we see here did their own taxes until they had to use computers or came to the point they realized they needed someone else to do them.”

Sarah Merriman, AARP district coordinator for Douglas, Franklin and Jefferson counties, said seniors represent the majority of those the local AARP tax service helps, but it is available to those of all ages and incomes.

The AARP volunteers can do some itemized returns and those for small businesses, but not

books.

The bill also specifies that Kansas will recognize the nonresident permits issued by other states, as long as that nonresident is not from Kansas, which means a teenager from Kansas could not apply for a Maine concealed-carry permit and be allowed to carry concealed weapons here.

But the bill is silent on the question of whether under-21 residents of any other state who have such permits would be allowed to carry concealed weapons here.

Klebe said the main purpose of the bill is to make sure Kansans who have concealed carry permits are able to carry their weapons in as many other states as possible.

“The intent of the attorney general in bringing this is, if you are licensed by another jurisdiction, age wasn’t a consideration,” he said. “Those

are the policy matters that this committee starts and the Legislature as a whole takes on.”

Some members of the committee, including Rep. John Wilson, D-Lawrence, expressed concern that out-of-state students as young as 18, 19 or 20 might be allowed to have concealed weapons, if a new law is allowed to take effect July 1 requiring campuses to allow concealed carry.

“I do think there’s a need to clarify that,” Wilson said.

But others, including Rep. John Whitmer, RWichita, appeared less concerned.

“If you’re 18, you have to register for the draft.

If you’re 18 with military training, you can use a firearm. If you’re 18, you can die for your country. Wouldn’t it just be an easier fix to lower the concealed-carry age to 18?” he asked.

Klebe said the attorney general’s office is not taking a position on the question of age limits, but he said the Legislature should address the question one way or another as it considers whether to reinstate a reciprocity law with other states.

Committee chairman John Barker, R-Abilene, had indicated last week he planned to vote on at least one of two bills Wednesday that would roll back the upcoming requirement that concealed-carry be allowed on public campuses and most municipal buildings.

After Wednesday’s meeting, he did not indicate why he decided not to work those bills, but he suggested that some committee members may still be working on amendments.

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increase citizen review of police complaints, acquire body cameras for officers and break down data regarding police stops by race.

Lawrence Police Chief Tarik Khatib will step down as the department’s head in June. Khatib has been with the Lawrence Police Department for more than 20 years and has served as chief since 2011. Khatib confirmed in December his plans to retire from the force.

Markus said candidates for the position will undergo multiple interviews, and visits to the communities of outside applicants are possible. He said up to five finalists will be named, and the finalists will participate in a public meet and greet.

“That helps vet the candidate locally,” Markus said.

The city will continue accepting applications for the position of police chief until March 20, and Markus said finalists will be named by late spring or early summer.

“The timing about that is not as critical to me as making sure we get the right candidate,” Markus said.

Wednesday whether that would enable an 18-yearold from Kansas, or a similar person from any other state who enrolls in school in Kansas, to obtain a Maine permit and legally carry concealed weapons in Kansas.

Kansas Assistant Attorney General C.W. Klebe said that issue isn’t clear, because in 2015 Kansas lawmakers passed what gun-rights advocates call a “constitutional carry” law that says concealedcarry permits are not required for people who are otherwise qualified to have firearms. At the same time, it also repealed a 2013 law that said Kansas would recognize valid concealedcarry permits from other states.

Kansas still issues permits, mainly for the benefit of Kansans who want to carry their weapons in other states that require permits. But it does not

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complex returns such as those of farmers or landlords, Merriman said. The service also completes forms for the state’s homestead property tax refund, she said.

“If I’m allowed to train it, we can do it,” she said, explaining AARP tax volunteers are required to attend annual AARP tax preparation classes that she teaches each January at the University of Kansas School of Business. “The IRS sets limits on what we can do.”

A few of the people served from the AARP site have received letters from the IRS, but no one has ever been audited during her 10 years, Merriman said.

Most of the site’s processed returns are like that of retired Lawrence chemical plant worker George Kapfer, who brought his 1040 forms to the site Tuesday to be completed.

“It’s simpler to have someone else do them,”

require anyone who is legally qualified to own a firearm to have a permit here.

Strictly speaking, Klebe said, a person under 21 who carries a concealed handgun in Kansas would be violating a criminal statute, even if that person has a valid permit from another state.

But he added: “We aren’t sure that was an intentional change, based on the fact that for several years at least, we allowed all individuals to carry if they had a license.”

So now, the attorney general’s office is asking for legislation to clarify the point. It has introduced a bill that would re-establish reciprocity with other states that have concealed-carry laws. Klebe said that’s mainly because many other states only extend reciprocity to other states that have specific reciprocity laws on their

Lawrence voters narrowly rejected a citywide he said, as he prepared to sales tax to fund a new $28 million police headquarleave the church Tuesters in 2014. The city’s day. “I need to have my capital improvement plan wife, Sue, sign them and return them tomorrow to has budgeted $1.5 million this year for designing a be E-filed.” new police headquarters, The AARP has used electronic filing since she and the topic is scheduled to eventually come started in her volunteer before the City Commisposition 10 years ago, sion. said Merriman, a retired The city began accepting music teacher. applications for the position “That’s kind of the of police chief on Monday. case here,” she said of The starting salary for the her background. “We position will be between have one CPA out of 70 volunteers. They are just $120,000 and $140,000, deextremely hard-working pending on qualifications.

The police chief oversees and dedicated people. the department’s 150 offiWe should assist about cers, 30 civilian staffers and 2,000 people before the an operating budget of $23.4 season is over.” million.

The AARP service The application adverwill be available through tisement also states that the tax filing deadline of an important value for April 18, Merriman said. the community and the The traditional April 15 police department is “the falls on a Saturday, and need and desire for transMonday, April 17, is the parency and openness to holiday observance of the public.” The police Emancipation Day in department is in the proWashington, D.C. cess of increasing some “It seems like the aspects of oversight. Efdeadline is never on the forts are in motion to 15th anymore,” she said.

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2 sex crimes reported since Sunday A sex crime was reported Tuesday afternoon, Lawrence police said. This is the second such crime reported this week.

Tuesday’s report was called in to police at 4:26 p.m., according to Lawrence Police Department activity logs. One officer responded to the call.

The second sex crime was reported at 3:19 a.m.

Sunday, the logs say. Three officers responded to the scene.

It is unclear where the two reports were taken because their addresses are redacted in the activity logs.

As of Wednesday morning, no arrests in the Douglas County Jail’s online booking logs match the reported incidents.

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Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com l Thursday, February 9, 2017

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Tax bills trigger right debate Gov. Brownback’s plan just puts us further down the road to ruin; it’s high time for a new approach.

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t’s hard to be happy about the combination of tax increases and spending cuts that legislators put on the table Tuesday in Topeka. But some version of that unappetizing mix is the only realistic way to deal with the state’s ongoing budget woes.

Certainly the proposals that came out of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee and the Senate Ways and Means Committee are a more fiscally responsible way to approach the budget than Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to postpone pension payments, raid highway funds, sell off assets, and then collectively cross our fingers that the economic growth he’s been promising for six years finally kicks in.

The state faces a combined $1.1 billion budget deficit in fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Brownback’s approach is a bandage that will only stop the bleeding for so long. Legislators are more properly taking a surgical approach to recovery.

The Assessment and Taxation Committee approved a bill that increases state income tax rates to generate $660 million in new revenue over two years. The bill reverses tax cuts and the controversial LLC tax exemption for 330,000 farmers and business owners that Brownback championed in 2012 and 2013.

Also on Tuesday, the Senate Ways and Means Committee backed a bill to cut $128 million in state aid to public schools and $22.7 million in funding for the states public colleges and universities.

There is nothing pretty about the cuts.

The Lawrence school district would lose $2.75 million. The University of Kansas would tackle a $7.1 million hit — $3.9 million for the Lawrence campus and $3.2 for KU Medical Center.

But give the Republican leadership credit for following through on their promise to take a different approach this session, even if it meant breaking with Brownback. After a bruising primary in which more than a dozen conservative Republicans lost seats to moderates, Senate President Susan Wagle pledged that Republicans had heard voters loud and clear and that the party would lead the way on fixing the state’s budget this session even if it meant rethinking the state’s tax policies.

Republicans backed that up with what came out of committee on Tuesday.

The budget battle is just getting started; it remains to be seen if the proposals that came out of committee will look anything like the final budget bill that is approved.

There are real concerns about K-12 funding cuts when the state Supreme Court still hasn’t issued a final ruling in response to a lawsuit over what is an adequate level of funding for public schools. Likewise, expect debates over whether the tax increases are too much or not enough.

But make no mistake, Tuesday’s proposals will trigger the kind of serious budget debate about taxes and spending cuts the state desperately needs to have.

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 9, 1917: l “There is a good deal of years worrying these days in the city ago water department. Several IN 1867 causes have contributed to the uneasiness felt in the operating end of the department. Chief among them are the low ground water, the prolonged cold weather, and the 1,000 or more consumers who are on a flat rate. These three have combined to deplete the supply of water in the settling basins, and to handicap the plant in keeping ahead of the demand.

The supply in the settling basins is now lower than it has been for some time.”

— Reprinted with permission from local writer Sarah St. John. To see more, go online to www.facebook.com/DailyLawrenceHistory.

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A masterpiece you need to see Death has this way of making truth-tellers seem harmless.

Alive, Martin Luther King provoked a president and divided a nation with his truth. Dead, he is an image on a commemorative place mat, his words safe enough for recitation by children.

This also holds, albeit to a lesser degree, for Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Dead, they were no longer dangerous. “We took out all the radicality of their legacy,” says Raoul Peck.

Peck is the director of “I Am Not Your Negro,” a documentary built on 30 pages of notes James Baldwin wrote for a book he never finished, a meditation on race, America and his three murdered friends: Medgar, Malcolm and Martin.

The film, which opened in wide release Friday, is a melange of arresting images, film clips and music framing Baldwin’s lacerating words as heard in archival footage and in readings by Samuel L. Jackson. It is nothing less than a masterpiece, fully deserving of its rave reviews and Oscar nomination, and it demands to be seen more than once. Trying to absorb everything it has to say in one sitting is like trying to

Leonard Pitts Jr. lpitts@miamiherald.com

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But what is most stunning about ‘Negro’ is its prescience and, more to the point, what its prescience says about what America still is.” catch Niagara in a teacup.

But what is most stunning about “Negro” is its prescience and, more to the point, what its prescience says about what America still is. Here are the words of a man who died in 1987 and yet, those words somehow contain Trayvon Martin, the Ferguson uprising, the election of Donald Trump and all the other broken promises.

“People finally say to you,” says Baldwin through Jackson, “in an attempt to dismiss the social reality: ‘But you’re so bitter.’ Well,

I may or may not be bitter.

But if I were, I would have good reasons for it, chief among them that American blindness or cowardice which allows us to pretend that life presents no reasons for being bitter.” As he speaks, you are watching a kneeling Rodney King get kicked in the back of the head by an L.A. cop.

And you might, if you are African American, want to shout hallelujah at hearing those who blithely chastise your “anger” thus elegantly rebuked.

“There are days,” says Baldwin, “... when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How, precisely, are you going to reconcile yourself to your situation here and how you are going to communicate to the vast, heedless, unthinking, cruel white majority that you are here?”

And you might, if you are African American, want to bow your head and lift a hand to the ceiling, because you have wondered, too, but did not have the words to say.

“When the Israelis pick up guns,” says Baldwin, “or the Poles or the Irish or any white man in the world says ‘Give me liberty or give

me death,’ the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad n----r so there won’t be any more like him.”

And you might, if you are African American, just want to pat your feet and say Amen. Even now. Even still.

“The scariest thing,” says Peck, “is that it is so precise and dead on the point of what is happening right now. ... We have been somehow in a sort of lethargy. We’ve been sleeping and we’ve been lazy. We’ve got Black History Month and we have Martin Luther King Day and we have new laws, et cetera, and we pretend as if everything is OK now. Which it’s not. We’ve just buried the corpse even deeper.”

If so, then “Negro” is a disinterment. More than a work of unparalleled brilliance, it is an urgent reminder that when it comes to race and America, the truth is not “safe.”

And it never was.

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

TODAY IN HISTORY On Feb. 9, 1942, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II. Daylight-saving “War Time” went into effect in the United States, with clocks moved one hour forward. l In 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. l In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau was established. l In 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists. l In 1964, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York by CBS.

The North Korean red line Santa Monica, Calif. — The Cold War was waged and won in many places, including this beach city, home to the RAND Corp.

Created in 1948 to think about research and development as it effects military planning and procurement, RAND pioneered strategic thinking about nuclear weapons in the context of the U.S.-Soviet competition. Seven decades later it is thinking about the nuclear threat from a nation created in 1948.

When Defense Secretary James Mattis said that any North Korean use of nuclear weapons would draw an “effective and overwhelming” U.S. response, he did not, according to RAND’s Bruce W. Bennett, “overcommit” the president by saying that the response would be nuclear. But an overwhelming response could be.

On Jan. 1, North Korea’s 33-year-old leader, Kim Jong Un, said that his regime was at “the final stage in preparations to test-launch” an ICBM, perhaps one capable of reaching America’s Pacific Coast. On Jan. 2, Donald Trump tweeted: “It won’t happen!” He thereby drew a red line comparable to his predecessor’s concerning Syrian chemical weapons.

So, Trump, who excoriated Barack Obama for ignoring that red line, must, Bennett believes, be prepared to threaten actions that would prevent North Korea from learning from its test, actions such as shooting down the missile.

The United States has 30-some ground-based in-

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But as soon as Kim has one or more ICBMs (probably road-mobile) capable of delivering, on short notice, a nuclear payload to, say, Santa Monica, pre-emptive U.S. action, even just against his nuclear infrastructure, might be too risky.”

terceptor missiles at Fort Greely in Alaska and others at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This small capability is intended to cope with an accidental firing by an adversary, or an intentional firing by a rogue general, or to deter or defeat a deliberate attack by an adversary with a small nuclear arsenal, such as North Korea. Will the U.S. anti-ballistic missile system work? Bennett says technologies can go wrong, so this would be an opportunity to fix any failures.

And unless we then are prepared to shoot down theater-range ballistic missiles, we will signal lessthan-convincing commitment to South Korea and

Japan. To those who say it is premature to conclude that Kim is capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, Bennett says: In 1966, China, in its fourth nuclear test, just two years after its first, had a missile carry a nuclear weapon to its detonation over its western desert.

In 2006, William Perry, who had been defense secretary for Bill Clinton, and Ashton Carter, who would be Obama’s final defense secretary, recommended U.S. action to destroy any ICBM set for testing on a North Korean launch pad. But that nation’s conventional retaliatory capabilities, including artillery and rockets capable of inflicting considerable damage on at least Seoul’s northern suburbs, forestalled this. And North Korea has perhaps 1,000 tactical-range ballistic missiles capable of striking throughout South Korea and Japan. Furthermore, North Korea has cyberwar, commando and sabotage capabilities.

Today, U.S. surface ships and submarines alone could deliver dozens of cruise missiles, and each of up to 10 B-2 bombers could carry two Massive Ordnance Penetrators to destroy underground leadership or missile bunkers. But as soon as Kim has one or more ICBMs (probably road-mobile) capable of delivering, on short notice, a nuclear payload to, say, Santa Monica, pre-emptive U.S. action, even just against his nuclear infrastructure, might be too risky.

Furthermore, preparations for a more ambitious

strike — against North Korean artillery and rockets, ports, airfields, commandand-control centers, leadership bunkers and forwardpositioned forces — might be apparent and might provoke Kim to strike first against Seoul and U.S. forces in South Korea. South Korea talks openly of creating, this year, a “decapitation brigade” involving perhaps as many as 2,000 troops whose mission would be to eliminate North Korea’s leadership in the event of war.

Kim recently dismissed the head of his secret police, the latest sign of insecurity.

Bennett believes Kim, undeterred by tweets, might test his ICBM for internal purposes — to impress restive North Korean elites. Bennett suggests that the threat to shoot down the test flight would constructively exacerbate Kim’s problems.

As might U.S. propaganda, for example by reminding North Korean elites that China’s president has had eight summits with South Korea’s president in the last four years but never has had one with Kim, who China apparently considers not important.

North Korea, which has been run opaquely for the Kim family’s benefit since 1953, is approaching a red line. Although the line was drawn before Trump took office, perhaps it represents continuity. It prefigured the kind of improvisational governance that has made his early weeks so interesting.

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

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Temperature High/low 28°/19° Normal high/low today 42°/20° Record high today 74° in 1943 Record low today -19° in 1899

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest. trace Month to date trace Normal month to date 0.32 Year to date 0.98 Normal year to date 1.30

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Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose nomination as attorney general has served as a fresh lightning rod for the new administration of President Trump, was narrowly confirmed Wednesday as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.

The largely party line vote of 52-47, yet another reflection of the deep political divisions roiling the country, was marked by bitter

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One member, Sessions, voted present.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the one Democrat to vote for Sessions.

Vice President Pence was expected to preside at Sessions’ swearing in Thursday morning.

Sessions’ bumpy road to confirmation as the 84th attorney general of the United States

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Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is expected to be sworn in as attorney general this morning.

spanned a series of high political dramas that featured Trump’s abrupt firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend the administration’s disputed refugee ban in federal court and Tuesday night’s extraordinary Senate confrontation in which Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was silenced by Republican leaders for her criticism of the nominee.

Warren was in the midst of reading from a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., who condemned Sessions’ role as federal prosecutor in a controversial voting fraud prosecution of three black civil rights activists in Alabama, when

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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch distanced himself Wednesday from disparaging comments President Trump has made about the federal judiciary.

In a private meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, DConn., the federal appeals court judge called Trump’s attacks “demoralizing” and “disheartening,” a member of his advisory team confirmed. The comments — made during the type of courtesy call that seldom GETTY IMAGES makes news Gorsuch — went viral.

Trump’s comments began last weekend after a judge blocked his executive order imposing a temporary travel ban on immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries and refugees and escalated Wednesday as the case was argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

“Courts seem to be so political,” Trump told a group of sheriffs and police chiefs. Trump also had called federal District Judge James Robart of Seattle, who first blocked the travel ban nationwide, a “so-called judge.”

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she was suddenly barred from continuing.

“Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts,” Warren said, reading from the King letter.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., interjected, saying that Warren violated an arcane Senate rule against “impugning the motives” of another member. The Senate later voted to support McConnell’s contention, effectively shutting down Warren.

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Trump gives Nordstrom a dressing-down

He says it treated Ivanka and her fashion line ‘unfairly’

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Ivanka Trump’s fashion line has suffered a setback. And boy is Dad mad.

President Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to complain that his daughter has been “treated so unfairly” by the Nordstrom department store chain, which says it will no longer carry her line.

Once again raising questions about mixing politics and the family’s businesses, Trump wrote, “My daughter Ivanka

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has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”

Parents are often, and understandably, protective of their children and often step in to

defend them when they believe they are wronged. But when the parent is the president of the United States, the response raises more than eyebrows.

Trump is not new to criticizing businesses on the social media platform. The Nordstrom comments mark the latest Twitter blast from Trump, who has taken numerous companies to task.

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Triple treat: Eclipse, full moon, comet all coming Friday

Look to the heavens for this rare sky show Doyle Rice

@usatodayweather USA TODAY

Skywatchers will enjoy a rare space triple-header Friday night and early Saturday: a “penumbral” lunar eclipse during the full “snow” moon — and the flyby of a comet.

Here’s a look at what you will see if you set your eyes to the night sky:

PENUMBRAL LUNAR ECLIPSE

Eagle-eyed skywatchers will catch a “penumbral” lunar eclipse Friday evening during the full moon.

Not as spectacular — or noticeable — as a total lunar eclipse, this rather subtle phenomenon occurs when the moon moves through the outer part of Earth’s shadow (known as the penumbra), according to EarthSky.org.

The outer shadow of the Earth blocks part — but not all — of the sun’s rays from reaching the moon, making it appear slightly darker than usual.

The exact moment of the penumbral eclipse is 7:43 p.m. ET.

The eclipse will be visible from Europe, Africa, western Asia and eastern North and South America, NASA reports.

FULL ‘SNOW’ MOON

As required during any lunar eclipse, the moon will be full Friday night. And this month it’s nicknamed the “snow” moon.

According to the Farmers’ Almanac, names of full moons date back to Native Americans in the northern and eastern U.S. Each full moon has its own name.

“The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon,” the almanac says. “Their

names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.”

Calling February’s full moon the “snow” moon is right on target: On average, February is the USA’s snowiest month, according to data from the National Weather Service.

The Farmer’s Almanac says some tribes referred to February’s moon as the “hunger” moon, because harsh weather conditions made hunting difficult.

COMET 45P

A few hours after the eclipse, Comet 45P, which has been visible after sunset for the past two

months through binoculars and telescopes, makes its closest approach to Earth, when it will be “only” 7.4 million miles away, NASA says.

Look to the east around 3 a.m.

Saturday, where the comet will be visible in the constellation Hercules. Binoculars or a telescope could be helpful. Watch for a bright blue-green “head” with a tail.

It will be visible in various points of the night sky until the end of February, NASA says. If you miss it, don’t worry, says Jane Houston Jones of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory: It will return in 2022.

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MLK widow’s letter at center of political storm

Nordstrom is given a Twitter blast

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in an unfair and perhaps illegal manner. In a tweet of his own, Norm Eisen, chief ethics officer for President Obama and cofounder of the organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, broached the idea of a lawsuit.

Nordstrom said in a statement Wednesday that the decision made public last week to drop the fashion line was about falling sales.

Trump didn’t elaborate on what was unfair about Nordstrom’s action, though White House spokesman Sean Spicer later said the president was responding to “an attack on his daughter.”

The president’s tweet didn’t appear to hurt Nordstrom financially; after initially dropping 1%, Nordstrom shares rose more than 4% for the day to close at $44.53, up $1.75.

Nordstrom is not the only retailer that is making changes around Ivanka Trump’s brand.

TJX, owner of Marshalls and T.J. Maxx, told staff members last week that they should blend Ivanka Trump products with other store merchandise rather than featuring it on its own.

Ivanka Trump’s fashion line includes shoes and accessories along with jewelry and apparel.

Contributing: Kevin McCoy

PAWEL DWULIT, AP

Ivanka Trump models one of her outfits. Seattle-based Nordstrom has said it will no longer carry her merchandise.

of Coretta Scott King are not suitable for debate in the United States Senate,” Warren said before the ruling.

The incident only served to energize a debate that continued late into Wednesday evening, as Democrats paraded to the Senate podium to offer their support for Warren and question Sessions’ fitness to lead the Justice Department.

Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., took up Warren’s cause and continued reading from King’s scathing letter. Udall’s remarks, however, encountered not further challenge

by Republicans, nor were the statements of Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who called the debate clause a “gag rule.”

Sessions is poised to take over the sprawling Justice Department whose interim leadership was upended last week when Trump abruptly fired Yates for directing department lawyers not to defend the new administration’s executive order which suspends immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries.

A strong supporter of Trump and the lawmaker who helped shape the new administration’s hard-line immigration policy, Sessions’ tenure will be immediately confronted with multiple court challenges to the controversial order. A federal appeals court is expected to rule at any time on whether to strike down a temporary restraining order currently blocking enforcement of the administration’s travel ban.

In recent days, Democrats also have voiced deep concerns about Sessions’ independence from the White House and a president who drew on Sessions’ counsel and support throughout a bitter primary and general election campaign season that featured anti-immigration rhetoric at virtually every stop.

“I am seriously concerned about Jeff Sessions’ willingness to say no to the president when he needs to,” Hirono said Wednesday.

Last week, before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve Sessions on a 11-9 partyline vote, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., offered a blistering

“I am seriously concerned about Jeff Sessions’ willingness to say no to the president when he needs to.”

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii

critique of the nominee, saying that he was “alarmed” about Sessions’ deep links to the president and “his open hostility to bedrock civil rights laws.”

McConnell, whose Tuesday night exchange with Warren appeared to reawaken the opposition to Sessions’ nomination, said the subsequent debate Wednesday unleashed unwarranted criticism on the nominee.

“It’s been tough to watch what this colleague has been put through,” McConnell said.

USA TODAY EXCLUSIVE

New stock questions haunt Tom Price HHS nominee often subject of inquiries Jayne O’Donnell @jayneodonnell USA TODAY

President Trump’s choice to be the top U.S. health official bought and sold health care company stocks often enough as a member of Congress to warrant probes by both federal securities regulators and the House ethics committee, former government ethics lawyers say.

An analysis of stock trade reports by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., also shows he often misstated the timing of stock purchases or failed to report them altogether.

These include disclosures related to his much-publicized investment in the Australian biotech company Innate Immunotherapeutics, which gave him preferential treatment for a private stock offering he learned of through another member of Congress who is the company’s big-

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gest shareholder.

Price also invested in more health care companies that could benefit from legislation he introduced than previously reported.

When asked about Price’s stock trades, the Department of Health and Human Services released an unsigned statement that said Price’s legislative activity on behalf of the medical equipment industry, which dates back about 20 years, illustrated his long-held concerns with the CMS’ competitive bidding process.

Last May, Price introduced the Patient Access to Durable Medical Equipment Act to block Medicare changes to reimbursements for durable medical equipment. A week later, he purchased up to $15,000 worth of shares in Blackstone, which owns the privately held home medical equipment company Apria. Apria sells home medical equipment, including walkers, hospital beds and wound therapy devices.

Apria spent up to $100,000 lobbying members of Congress to support Price’s bill between May and June.

Price’s support of the industry, which has been targeted by HHS for fraud, was mutual. The American Association of Homecare, a home medical equipment lobbying and member organization, donated $7,200 to Price in 2016 and $7,000 in 2012. The organization filed six lobbying disclosure reports on this one bill — more than any other group. Apria is a corporate partner of the lobbying group.

When Price was nominated to head HHS, the group released a statement applauding his work: “The home medical equipment community, as well as HME patients and their caregivers, owe him a debt of gratitude for his leadership and effectiveness on this issue.”

USA TODAY reported last week that Price bought $15,000 worth of stock in the health care company McKesson and soon after sponsored different legislation that would benefit the company, its clients and others involved in the durable medical equipment industry.

That put Price at risk of violating the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, which was designed to keep members of Congress and their staffs from using information they have through their jobs to make money in the stock market.

“A lot of trades like this by someone in a position to have access to confidential information is exactly the kind of thing that typically triggers an SEC (Securi-

ROBERT DEUTSCH, USA TODAY

Rep. Tom Price, who is nominated for secretary of Health and Human Services, sits for confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. ties and Exchange Commission) investigation,” says Richard Painter, who was President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer. “I have no idea if it’s going on and where (a probe) would lead, but it shows extremely poor judgment making these trades in and out of health care stocks.”

Price was approved by the Senate Finance Committee in a party-line vote last week. The full Senate is expected to vote on his nomination Thursday.

“(It) shows extremely poor judgment making these trades in and out of health care stocks.”

Richard Painter, President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer

Price made dozens of health industry stock trades while he was a member of the Ways and Means Committee and the SEC was in the midst of a three-year investigation focusing on the panel, Kaiser Health News reported Wednesday. Although he was neither targeted by nor implicated in the the investigation, it was considered the first test of the STOCK law and unusually bold for a sitting member of Congress to do so, Kaiser reported.

A coalition of 13 left-leaning groups sent a letter to Senate leaders Tuesday urging them to delay consideration of Price until the SEC can investigate. These and other groups, along with Senate Democrats, were concerned about losing coverage under the

Affordable Care Act, which Price strongly opposes.

“Before the Senate rushes to confirm a nominee for the president’s cabinet, the public deserves to know whether they’re guilty of insider trading,” said the letter signed by groups including the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Public Citizen. “Mr. Price was a sitting Member of Congress actively working to pass health policy changes — to accept special stock offers from a health care company in that position was not ethical and not appropriate.”

But as Painter’s comments show, the criticism isn’t only coming from the left.

“This is something the voters should be concerned about,” says John Pudner, a conservative Republican who runs Take Back Our Republic, an advocacy group trying to get money out of politics.

“Money that is personally benefiting you is more of a concern and can be a more powerful force pulling you into a decision on related issues than campaign funding.”

In his Senate confirmation hearings, Price said he personally directed the January 2015 purchases of stock in Innate Immunotherapeutics. He insisted that his broker handled all of his other direct stock holdings and did not consult him on those transactions.

However, in Price’s self-reported periodic transaction report filed in February 2015, Price said he was informed of the Innate trades about a month after the transaction took place — even though he directed them himself.

This illustrates that Price mis-

stated the timing of two out of three of his most controversial investments.

Even if it’s not insider trading, House members are “supposed to take it very seriously when they are dealing in legislation that may also affect these stocks,” says Larry Noble, former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission, now general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center.

Painter, a securities law and ethics professor at the University of Minnesota, says a nominee with Price’s stock trading would never have been nominated in the last Bush administration.

The same would have been true in the Obama administration, says Jim Messina, former personnel director for the Obama transition.

“Price is the prime example of why you have to have a thorough vetting process that includes an FBI background check and an extensive personal investigation,” says Messina, who also supervised the White House office of personnel as deputy chief of staff.

“Any real vetting process would have uncovered this and we would have never nominated Price much less asked the Senate to confirm him.”

A notable amount of Price’s investment activity and legislative help has focused on what’s known as “durable medical equipment,” which former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official Tim Gronniger calls the “wild west of the health care industry.”

The distribution of these products — including wheelchairs, canes and bed lifts — is not as rife with fraud as it once was, which Gronniger attributes to some hard-won regulatory changes, such as creation of a competitive bidding program that was supported by the previous Bush administration.

Omissions and incorrect dates can “lead one to wonder whether it is related to any legislative work you’re doing,” Noble says.

That’s why the solution for Cabinet secretaries and White House officials is to divest stocks so they are not in any position to directly influence companies they’ve invested in, says Noble.

The “bare minimum” standard should be for legislators to put their investments into a blind trust, says Pudner.

Price has said he would divest all shares as directed and agreed to with the Office of Government Ethics.

Kaiser Health News reported that Price took about a year off from trading in health stocks after he joined Ways and Means’ health subcommittee in 2011, but then resuming trading in 2012.

That’s the year the STOCK Act was signed into law.

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Déjà vu? Rates — surprisingly — tick lower Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

Like 2016, 2017 was supposed to be the year of rising rates.

But, so far, the bond market is flashing higher prices — and lower yields.

That’s a development few investors expected at the start of the year after the Federal Reserve hiked short-term interest rates for the first time in a year and put three additional rate increases on the table for 2017.

Yields were also supposed to spike due to a belief the economy would pick up once President Trump took office and started to put his U.S.-first policies on the fast track.

Instead, the Fed held rates steady at its first meeting of the

year last month. And the 10-year Treasury bond now yields just 2.35%, down from 2.45% at the end of 2016 and below the 2.47% rate on Jan. 20 when Trump took office.

Bonds are again finding buyers, which is pushing down yields, amid the turbulence that has accompanied the president’s first few weeks in office.

Instead of rushing to pass growth-friendly policies such as corporate tax cuts and infrastructure spending, Trump’s focus out of the gate on immigration and trade has put many of the market-friendly measures on hold. As a result, there’s rising concern these promises will be put on the backburner, which could mean the economy might not perk up quite as fast as first envisioned.

Until further notice, investors continue to find safety in U.S. government bonds.

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Change $0.38

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$40

After meeting with President Trump, the technology company plans to invest $7 billion in a semiconductor plant in Arizona that has been under construction since 2011 to create new jobs. The plant will complement two factories it already has.

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+1.69

+4.3

-17.3

+4.1

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+14.8

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Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) 79.84 +2.54 Rating raised to outperform at Credit Suisse.

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Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Beats estimates but expects higher costs in 2017.

63.55

-7.57

-10.6

-4.7

Gilead Sciences (GILD) Says biggest drug franchise is fading.

66.83

-6.30

-8.6

-6.7

CSRA (CSRA) Earnings and revenue views below estimates.

30.30

-2.25

-6.9

-4.8

Assurant (AIZ) No-growth forecast disappoints investors.

90.45

-6.55

-6.8

-2.6

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Shares dip on signs of decelerating activity.

57.04

-2.89

-4.8

+1.1

Jacobs Engineering Group (JEC) 56.63 Shares falls as company reports decline in earnings.

-2.17

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Citizens Financial Group (CFG) Negative industry note, fund manager reduces.

-1.24

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Southwestern Energy (SWN) Shares dip on negative industry environment.

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Fund, ranked by size Vanguard 500Adml Vanguard TotStIAdm Vanguard InstIdxI Vanguard TotStIdx Vanguard TotIntl Vanguard InstPlus Vanguard TotStIIns American Funds GrthAmA m Vanguard WelltnAdm Fidelity Contra

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8.88

-.31

-3.4

-17.9

Western Digital (WDC) 77.08 Negative industry view overshadows rating upgrade.

-1.97

-2.5

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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Shares dip early a day after earnings call.

-1.13

-2.5

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Utilities

1.0%

14.1%

Consumer discret. 0.6%

8.3%

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5.7%

Telcom

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1.6%

Health care

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Alaska Air Group (ALK) Fourth-quarter earnings beat estimates.

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O’Reilly Automotive (ORLY) Sales hang above consensus.

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Nordstrom (JWN) 44.53 Climbs after criticism for dropping Ivanka Trump’s brand.

Allergan (AGN) Beats earnings, optimistic about future.

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5,000

Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH) Shares jump on deal for new board members.

Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) Stock rating upgraded at Société Générale.

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Microchip Technology (MCHP) Earnings and sales beat estimates.

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Price: $109.00 Day’s high: $111.42 Low: $108.98 The mass-media company reported earnings of $1.55 per share, beating consensus estimates of $1.49 and revenue of $14.8 billion, trailing consensus of $15.3 billion. The results were enough to satisfy analysts, but shares gave up early gains.

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TurboTax wants Americans to stop dragging their feet Intuit blames late start to season for lower outlook Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

Americans are apparently dragging their feet on tax filing this year.

A sluggish start to tax season undermined TurboTax owner Intuit’s earnings. The online filing

software company warned Wednesday “tax season is forming more slowly than usual,” which will translate into a worsethan-expected performance for the fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 31.

The company lowered its outlook for quarterly revenue, operating income and earnings. In the long run, the company expects full-year earnings to achieve its targets.

“Data points to the tax category forming slowly for all prep methods,” Dan Wernikoff, executive vice president and general

manager of Intuit’s TurboTax business, said in a statement. “We believe we have a strong and winning hand that combines innovation across the end-to-end experience, an effective go-tomarket campaign and great value for taxpayers. One thing we know about the tax business is that everyone needs to file by April 18.

We are looking forward to a strong finish to the season.”

Revenue is now expected to range from $1.01 billion to $1.02 billion, down from a previous projection of $1.05 billion to $1.07 billion. Operating income is pro-

2013 PHOTO BY PAUL SAKUMA, AP

The good news for Intuit is that the company expects to meet its goals for the full year.

jected at $15 million to $20 million, down from a previous prediction of $60 million to $70 million. And the company is now expected to barely eke out a profit for the quarter, with earnings of four to five cents per share, down from an earlier expectation of 12 to 15 cents.

The good news for Intuit is it still expects to meet its goals for the full year, suggesting that customer spending is simply shifting to the next fiscal quarter.

The company declined to comment beyond Wednesday’s statement.

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Make an effort to understand sister’s situation Dear Annie: I have lived within a day’s drive of my eldest sister for many years.

Several years ago, as she was getting back on her feet after a divorce, I went to visit for Christmas. I had a great time. But after that, things seemed to get progressively tenser with each visit.

She started participating as a foster parent for infants and canceled a Christmas visit to us on short notice because she had to look after her first child over the holiday.

I tried to be supportive of her new endeavor, but when I asked about the family situation that put the child in foster care, I was snippily told, ‘’That’s confidential. I can’t talk about that.’’

She is hurt that I am

it were a short trip to see her for a short visit, I think I could manage that. But it’s an eighthour trip, and then I would be captive to her rules for a couple of days. It’s more than I could handle. I am not really interested in staying in a motel in order to visit, and I expect dearannie@creators.com she would be really hurt if I were to do so.

And I have had enough ignoring her now. But of God blessing my day. she has yet to invite us What am I missing? — for a visit since cancelPuzzled ing the Christmas visit several years ago. Email Dear Puzzled: First, communication gets I don’t think there’s twisted, and she doesn’t any puzzle piece that call by phone. She signs would click and snap her emails, ‘’May God everything into place bless your day,’’ and along with it. Your siswhen I told her that ter’s behavior has very bothers me, she got little to do with you very defensive. and everything to do Even if she were to with where she is on invite me, I’m not sure her own path to selfI would want to go. If discovery.

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‘History of Comedy’ isn’t joking Even the title ‘‘The History of Comedy’’ (9 p.m., CNN) sounds a bit absurd. How do you cover a subject so broad in eight episodes? And how do you define ‘‘comedy’’ as something limited to the television era? Or to the United States? And what is this doing on CNN? ‘‘Comedy’’ begins with ‘‘Going Blue,’’ a look at comics’ battles with censors over the decades.

Each installment includes vintage performance and TV interview footage as well as commentary from contemporary comics, authors and experts.

It surveys the expressive breakthroughs from Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx to George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. Most of the contemporary comics interviewed here, from Sarah Silverman to Marc Maron, see the progression as healthy and natural, a blow against the absurdity of censorship.

Yet distinctions emerge.

Bruce was censored, jailed and harassed, more for attacking organized religion (and its links to the police, political machines and judges) than his use of ‘‘dirty’’ words. He was a troublemaker. As was Pryor, whose language echoed the rage of the civil rights era. Did Murphy’s routines have the same edge?

Or did he merely make the casual use of profanity immensely popular?

Bobcat Goldthwait is alone here in suggesting that there might be a very important distinction between Lenny Bruce using shock value to needle the powerful and Andrew Dice Clay, whose bad taste routines appeared to be validating the attitudes of would-be wife beaters. ‘‘The History of Comedy’’ obviously takes its subject seriously. It could use a few more divergent and dissenting voices.

Or at least the thoughts of comics who have made the artistic choice to avoid Carlin’s seven dirty words.

Other episodes will explore female comedians, and the working of the comic mind and the profession’s too-frequent association with drug use and mental illness.

Tonight’s other highlights O A group of 16 junior chefs competes on ‘‘MasterChef’’ (7 p.m., Fox, TV-PG).

O Texas floods leave many animals without homes on ‘‘The Vet Life: Working Overtime’’ (7 p.m., Animal Planet, TV-PG).

O ‘‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’’ (7 p.m., Bravo, TV-14) hosts the cast of HBO’s ‘‘Girls.’’

O The designers find inspiration in street art murals on ‘‘Project Runway Junior’’ (8 p.m., Lifetime, TV-PG).

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For Thursday, Feb. 9: This year you often feel as if you are between a rock and hard place. Look at the long-term implications of your ideas, and think twice before taking a risk. If you are single, you could meet someone from out of the blue. If you are attached, the two of you compromise more than you have in the past.

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) ++++ Pace yourself, knowing full well that you have a lot to do, much of which demands your creativity and thoughtfulness.

Tonight: Let your hair down.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) ++++ You might be considerably mellow compared with the past few days. You are able to stay centered as a result. Tonight: Happy at home.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++++ Your ability to communicate is enhanced. How you feel in the presence of someone else could be surprising to you.

Tonight: Recognize your limits.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Hone your ability to see past someone’s gestures. Be aware of the multifaceted responses you are likely to get. Tonight: Pay bills before heading out.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Your sense of direction peaks, as others’ falls into disarray. Tonight: Deal with the push and pull of a key friendship.

Perhaps you two could plan a trip somewhere halfway between your town and hers.

The neutral ground might help you both relax. Try engaging her in an open, honest, judgment-free conversation. Tell her that you’re proud of her for committing to taking care of a foster child, and ask her how that idea came to her. Seek to understand.

And keep in mind that in the aftermath of her divorce, your sister could have gone in any number of dark directions. Instead, she found solace in faith and charity. Good for her.

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

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ Consider your options more carefully than you have in the past. Tonight: The answer is “yes.”

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ Defer to others. A partnership carries unusual energy and possibilities. Tonight: Let go, and observe a power play at work.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Stay centered, and focus on what is important and what is not. How good is your juggling act? Tonight: In a whirlwind.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ Others make it clear what they want and expect. Your sense of humor allows new options to emerge. Tonight: Say “yes.”

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ You see a loved one’s potential clearly. You have the ability to encourage this person to gain a greater sense of fulfillment.

Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ You might feel as if you need to be more aware of how much you do, as you could be experiencing some resentment about giving away too much of yourself. Tonight: Out late.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) +++ You are fully aware of what you need to do. Take a hard look at your finances in order to decide what changes need to be made. Tonight: Get a head start on tomorrow.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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ROBERT HEMPHILL 67, of Tonganoxie, formerly of Lawrence, died February 4, 2017. He is survived by a sister, Linda Hemphill of Tonganoxie. Memorial services held at a later date.

SUZANNE ELEANOR ECKE MCCOLL Visitation for Suzanne Eleanor Ecke McColl will be Sun. Feb. 12, 3:30 to 4:30 pm at Bella Sera, 4500 Bob Billings Pkwy, Lawrence. Private family inurnment at Pioneer Cemetery. rumsey­yost.com

OPAL FAYE NOWASELL Opal Faye Nowasell, 84, Tonganoxie, KS. Visitation will be at Noon with funeral service at 1 pm Saturday February 11, 2017 at the Quisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie.

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MELITON GAUNA Meliton Gauna, 82, passed on 2/3/2017.

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CAROLINE SUE HEIN Services for Caroline Sue Hein, 82, Lawrence are pending and will be announced by Warren­ McElwain Mortuary. She passed away Wed., Feb. 8th at her home. warrenmcelwain.com.

Shirley Joan Wagner, 85, passed away February 6th 2017 in Baldwin City, KS at the Baldwin Health Care Center.

A celebration of Shirley’s life will be held at Ives Chapel United Methodist Church on Saturday February 11th 2017 at 11am. Pastor Jeni Anderson of Ives United Methodist Church will be officiating.

A private burial will be held at a later date.

Shirley was born in Lawrence, KS on December 25th 1931 to Harry Sr. & Ethel Wright Winters. She attended Lawrence Schools graduating from Liberty Memorial High School in 1949. Shirley attended the University of Kansas for 2 years.

Shirley married John S. Wagner on July 25th 1953 at Danforth Chapel in Lawrence.

They were married for 31 years.

Shirley worked for Franklin Savings Association from 1984 through 1994 when she retired.

She was a previous President of Baldwin PTA. Shirley was a member of Hestia Study

Club of Baldwin. She was a member of Ives Chapel United Methodist Church and in 1976 she was the Ives Chapel Mother of the Year. She delivered meals on wheels for Baldwin seniors for several years.

Shirley also volunteered for many years at Orchard Lane Nursing Home.

Shirley is survived by her 3 sons Bruce & Carol, Brian & Pam, and Brenn & Caroline, 5 grandchildren Ashley & Jeremiah Ingerson, Tristan & Kelsey, Clarissa & Adam, Christy, and John, 3 great grand children Brett, Carter, and Addison, and her many nieces and nephews.

Shirley is preceded in death by her husband John, Father Harry Sr., Mother Ethel, Brother Harry Jr., and Nephew Scott Winters.

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County OKs funding for mental health director

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

Douglas County Commission approved funding for a two-year temporary position of director of behavioral health projects at its meeting Wednesday.

Assistant to the County Administrator Jill Jolicoeur told commissioners that with salary, benefits, office space and equipment, the position would have an annual expense of $132,000. The position was modeled on that of Robert Bieniecki, coordinator of the Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, she said.

County commissioners have recently acknowledged that the county faces a challenge in identifying the services needed to make effective the proposed mental health crisis intervention center.

Commissioners agreed the person hired for the new position would work with Bert Nash Community Mental Heath, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and other community

mental health partners in identifying service gaps in a continuum of mental health care. The job description also would have the new director research behavioral health models, collect data, prepare reports and provide insight for the design of the crisis intervention center.

Commissioner Nancy Thellman said she had long lobbied for the position. Bieniecki’s success only made the need more obvious, she said.

“It was clear that we need that on the mental health side — having an expert with real-world experience, who is dedicated and with the ability to make information in a digestible form,” she said.

Jolicoeur said the county would start advertising for the position by Friday and would probably accept applications for 30 days.

Although commissioners approved funding for the position for two years, they agreed it could be extended, depending on available funds and the status of the crisis center.

BRIEFLY Baldwin City Council the 20-foot standard.

Baldwin City planning split on yard setbacks director Ed Courton said

A proposed zoning text amendment that would allow shallower front-yard setbacks for new home construction met with mixed reviews Tuesday from the Baldwin City Council.

The text amendment that the Baldwin City Planning Commission approved would allow setbacks from street easements of 20 feet, rather than the 30 feet now required in city zoning code.

Planning Commissioner Casey Simoneau said the text amendment was the result of a review of lots available in Baldwin City and trends in other communities, including west Lawrence, which have adopted

opening up lots for development was an advantage of the proposed change. The downside to the amendment was that it would allow construction of homes that stick out 10 feet closer to the street than others in existing neighborhoods, Courton said.

It soon became clear that there was no consensus among council members on the issue. With lack of action Tuesday, the item will be on the Council’s Feb. 21 agenda.

Courton said at that time the council could reject the text amendment or send it back to the planning commission with recommendations for revisions.

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aybe a gun range is a bit like a barber shop: Every city of a certain size will have at least one. Lawrence businessman Steve Robson has that philosophy anyway, and he says he has just the site for Lawrence’s indoor shooting facility.

Robson — who owns Ace Self Storage and Ace Bail Bonds — has filed plans to build a 12,000 square-foot indoor gun range and gun shop on property he owns near the Douglas County Jail.

“I think the city understands something like this is coming,” Robson said. “There is going to be a gun range in Lawrence, and what better place to have one than in a location where there aren’t really any houses or any schools?”

If some of this sounds familiar, it may be because I wrote about Robson floating the idea of a gun range in December. But at that time, he hadn’t taken any of the steps needed to actually start the project.

Now he has.

Robson and Lawrencebased Paul Werner

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I don’t think you ever are going to get guns away from people. Your next best bet is to make people safer with guns.”

— Steve Robson, who has filed plans to build a gun range

Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Architects have filed a preliminary development plan to allow the facility to be built at 2350 Franklin Road. That is a vacant piece of ground just north of the Ace Bail Bonds office. The property is roughly a block away from the Douglas County Jail.

The other new piece of information since December is that it appears the city has limited options for denying the project, if it so chooses. I did get confirmation from a city official that Robson’s property has the correct zoning for a gun range.

Now, the project must meet the various technical requirements related to site layout, parking,

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landscaping and other such details. But usually the best way to stop a project from being built is to argue that a piece of property isn’t properly zoned for such a use. Indoor gun ranges, though, are allowed in certain types of industrial zoning districts, and Robson’s property already has such a zoning designation.

But obviously the idea has the potential to get political. There is a large debate underway about whether concealed carry should be allowed on the KU campus, in government buildings and elsewhere. Robson hopes politics stays out of his project, but he said a gun range could appeal even to people who don’t support the concealed carry movement.

“I just think a gun range will make people

safer,” Robson said. “I don’t think you ever are going to get guns away from people. Your next best bet is to make people safer with guns.”

Robson said he knows many people who own a gun but don’t have any place to shoot it. He said that’s not a good situation.

“You need to have a place to get comfortable with a gun,” Robson said.

Robson also had a few more details about what the facility plans to offer.

When I chatted with him in December, he said the gun range would have 10 shooting lanes. Now, the plan calls for a dozen 25yard shooting lanes. Plus, the range will accommodate tactical shooting.

That means a person would be able to walk up the range and shoot from side to side rather than simply standing at a bench and shooting

straight down the range.

Robson also is planning to buy a $60,000 simulator. That is a device that includes a large video screen that will show various scenarios, such as someone robbing a home, and gives users a chance to test their skills in that situation. The user is equipped with a 9MM handgun that fires a laser rather than bullets.

In addition to the shooting lanes and simulator, the facility will offer classes, Robson said. Plus, about half the facility will be devoted to retail space, including the sale and rental of handguns, assault rifles, ammunition and accessories such as gun safes, scopes, holsters and other types of items Planning commissioners are scheduled to hear the preliminary development plan in March. If approved, the plan then would go to the City Commission for approval.

Robson hopes to be in a position to start construction on the facility in June.

Some of you may be remembering that there was a proposal for another in-

door gun range. Lawrence businessman Rick Sells had confirmed plans for an indoor gun range in a space at 23rd and Harper, in the building that used to house Bargain Depot.

When I last chatted with Sells in December, he was still working to raise funds to get the venture started.

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Lawrence is set to get some national press of a good kind. The city is featured as a “top retirement destination” in the upcoming issue of Where to Retire magazine.

According to a press release from the magazine, the article touts KU’s basketball history, “pleasant downtown strolls,” an award-winning public library and “cultural bonanzas” such as Pulitzer-Prize winning speakers, concerts and NPR show tapings.

The magazine hits the newsstands on Feb. 14.

— This is an excerpt from Chad Lawhorn’s Town Talk column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

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KU women knock off OSU for second Big 12 victory

By Evan Riggs eriggs@ljworld.com

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KANSAS’ AISIA ROBERTSON (15) goes up for the layup over Oklahoma State’s Diana Omozee (5) Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

After Kansas earned its first Big 12 win over TCU earlier this season, the team doused coach Brandon Schneider with Gatorade as he entered the locker room. This time, as the Jayhawks picked up their second conference win, the coaches returned the favor.

“We were definitely blindsided,” sophomore Aisia Robertson said.

“Not at all,” senior Timeka

O’Neal said with a laugh when asked if she saw it coming.

Before that, the Kansas players blitzed Oklahoma State on the court in what Schneider called one of their best team defensive efforts of the season.

Kansas held Oklahoma State to 31 percent shooting, and forced 25 turnovers to earn its second Big 12 win of the season, 67-49, at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night.

Oklahoma State (13-10, 3-9)

junior Kaylee Jensen entered Wednesday’s game as the leading scorer in the Big 12, but she was held to 11 points on 4-of-14 shooting.

“We had to have ball pressure, and obviously whoever was matched up with her (Jensen) had to be in position and have great weak side help,” Schneider said.

“We just tried to make her feel crowded as much as we could.”

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RANKING GUARDS A look at Kansas’ top perimeter trios of the past 25 seasons

By Matt Tait lll

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talented trio of terrific guards in the starting lineup hardly has been a rare occurrence at Kansas throughout the past 25 years, but few groups have had the sort of night in, night out impact that senior Frank Mason III, junior Devonté Graham and freshman Josh Jackson have for this year’s Jayhawks.

While Jackson technically has been playing the four spot, with junior Svi Mykhailiuk starting at the three, KU coach Bill Self has said on more than one occasion that even though Jackson is at the four, the Jayhawks are using him, 100 percent of the time, as a guard.

That’s a key distinction for the following exercise, which will both tug at the heart strings of even the most loyal

Kansas fans and also challenge many memories.

With that said, let’s rank the best starting trios on KU’s perimeter of the past quarter century.

My list:

1. 2016-17 — Frank Mason III, Devonté Graham and Josh Jackson This season’s trio gets my vote because of their impact and enormous importance every time they step on the floor. Mason and Graham are averaging 35 minutes a game, Jackson is right at 30 and that

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PICTURED ARE, FROM LEFT, Josh Jackson, Frank Mason III and Devonté Graham. The three are some of the most impactful guards for Kansas in the past 25 years. group has accounted for nearly 60 percent of KU’s points and 75 percent of the Jayhawks’ assists while also being asked to carry the load both offensively and defensively. They do not have a Jeff Withey,

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Promotion to associate head football coach earns Hull huge raise

By Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

The Kansas athletic department made another serious commitment to improving its football program Tuesday when it more than doubled the salary of running backs coach and standout recruiter Tony Hull, who also received a new title.

David Beaty announced on his Twitter account that he had promoted Hull to associate head coach, saying “Tony’s recruiting prowess speaks for itself, but he is more than just a dynamic recruiter. Tony is a great football coach and his positive impact on this team is felt on a daily basis.”

Hull, entering his second season on Beaty’s staff, left his position as head coach of Warren East High in New Orleans to fill the running backs job vacated when Reggie Mitchell left Kansas for Arkansas.

Hull earned $150,000 in his first season at Kansas and received a raise to $400,000, according to a source with knowledge of the salaries of Beaty’s assistants.

Hull’s promotion comes in the wake of his banner recruiting week and at a time when LSU is in the market for a running backs coach.

LSU head coach Ed Oregron demoted Jabbar Juluke as running backs coach, which reportedly upset area high school coaches.

Juluke since has left LSU to take the same title at Texas Tech as Hull has at Kansas, associate head coach/running backs coach. Hull’s recruiting success in Louisiana gave him strong qualifications to become Juluke’s successor, if his promotion had not happened.

Hull’s raise comes after his huge recent recruiting haul, which led to the following headline on seccountry.com: “Should LSU be concerned about a pipeline from Louisiana to Lawrence?”

Journal-World File Photo Hull in the past five days has IN THIS 2016 FILE PHOTO, Kansas running backs coach Tony received six verbal commitments from high school juniors from Hull encourages his players as they warm up during practice. On Tuesday, Hull received a promotion to assistant head coach of > HULL, 3C Kansas’ football team, along with a hefty raise.

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Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — Jason Hammel knows he wouldn’t be in Kansas City if tragedy had not struck the Royals organization.

The 34-year-old right-hander made that clear right from the start.

“I feel like I need to express my condolences to Royals Nation and the Ventura family,” he said, referring to the fatal car crash that claimed pitcher Yordano Ventura in his native Dominican Republic last month. “I truly feel if that unfortunate passing doesn’t happen, you’re not talking to me.”

Royals general manager Dayton Moore said that was precisely the case.

“Obviously we weren’t in the starting pitcher market,” he explained during a news conference to introduce his new pitcher Wednesday, “although we’d been an admirer of Jason for a while and knew he was an option out there. We were very surprised, truthfully, that he remained on the market as well. Once we got over the shock of Yordano, you have to move forward.

“We have a baseball season to play, a team we’re responsible for, players we’re committed to and a fan base we’re responsible for as well,” Moore added. “So our scouts to a man, our entire front office, said, ‘There’s one guy out there that really makes us better.’”

Hammel will make $5 million this season, $9 million next season and the deal includes a $12 million mutual option

Nor is it a reason anybody should give pause to his signing.

“Yeah, I mean, without goFREE STATE HIGH SOUTH ing into great length, that was TODAY WEST kind of the hold-up with a lot • Boys swimming at Last Chance of teams is my guess,” he said.

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AL EAST “The fact of the matter is I’m FRIDAY 100 percent healthy and I have • Girls/boys basketball vs. Olathe been. I wasn’t on the postseaSouth, 5:30 p.m. son roster because we had a AL CENTRAL really good team.”

LAWRENCE HIGH Hammel is certainly familSOUTH WEST TODAY iar with the Royals. He was • Bowling at Washburn Rural quadteammates last season with outfielder Jorge Soler, who AL EAST rangular, 3:30 p.m.

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SEABURY ACADEMY Paul Beaty/AP File Photo He also was with Oakland FRIDAY IN THIS SEPT. 19, 2016, FILE PHOTO, Jason Hammel delivers a pitchAL WEST when he delivered the pitch • Girls/boys basketball at Veritas, during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds that Royals catcher Salvador 6 p.m. in Chicago. Though he is pictured wearing a Cubs jersey, the starting Perez slapped for the winpitcher has officially signed on to join the Royals in the upcoming season. ning hit in the 12th inning of their epic wild-card game VERITAS CHRISTIAN for the 2019 season with a $2 pitching staff,” Moore said. in 2014. The hit gave KanFRIDAY sas City a stand-alone; 9-8 victory and5 p.m. million buyout.

Hammel “We’ll goteam to logos spring trainAFC TEAM LOGOS can 081312: Helmet and for the AFC teams; various sizes; staff; ETA • Girls/boys basketball vs. Seabury, also earn $250,000 if he logs ing and there will be some spurred a World Series run, 6 p.m. at least 200 innings, a thresh- spots for competition in the while likewise ending the A’s old he has never reached over bullpen. We’ll evaluate that. season.

“I made my pitch, as I’ve parts of 11 seasons.

And as we all know, every SPORTS ON TV Right-hander Alec Mills was major league team has to done a million times in my cadesignated for assignment to make adjustments to the ros- reer, and there’s still been hits TODAY clear space for Hammel on the ter throughout the season. off that,” said Hammel, who College Basketball Time Net Cable 40-man roster. The move was Hopefully it has nothing to admitted to hating Perez for 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 mildly surprising given how do with health, nothing to do “a good 24 hours” after that Purdue at Indiana Winthrop at NC-Asheville 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 September night. highly Mills is thought of in with production.”

North Carolina at Duke 7 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 “I learned now that I didn’t SMU at Temple the Kansas City system.

Hammel was 15-10 with a 8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 Hammel slots into a start- 3.83 ERA in 30 starts for the make him honor the inner half New Hampshire at Vermont 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 ing rotation that includes left- World Series champion Cubs of the plate, because he went Wisconsin at Nebraska 8 p.m. BTN 170, 237 handers Danny Duffy and Ja- last season, though he was not out there and got it,” Hammel Vanderbilt at Mississippi St. 8 p.m. SEC 157 9 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 son Vargas and right-hander a part of the postseason ros- said. “I’m very excited to see Oregon at UCLA Ian Kennedy, with the fifth ter. But he said Wednesday him not do that to me any- Washington at Colorado 9 p.m. FSI 150, 227 BYU at Pepperdine 10 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 spot up for grabs in spring that a shoulder problem that more.”

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The Big 12 Conference said Wednesday it will withhold millions of dollars in revenue from Baylor until an outside review determines the university and athletic department are complying with Title IX guidelines and other regulations in the wake of a campus sexual assault scandal.

The league said it would withhold 25 percent of future revenue distribution payments to Baylor. Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Baylor has already received a $10 million payout for part of 2016-17 and the league expects a total payout of $34 million for each of its 10 schools. The league will withhold 25 percent of the remaining projected $24 million payout — or about $6 million this year.

The Big 12 said its board of directors voted unanimously to withhold the money. Baylor did not take part in the vote.

“By taking these actions, the board desires to ensure that the changes that were promised are actually made and that systems are in place to avoid future problems,” said David Boren, the University of Oklahoma president and Big 12 board chairman.

“The proportional withholding of revenue distribution payments will be in effect until the board has determined that Baylor is in compliance with conference bylaws and regulations as well as all components of Title IX.”

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By taking these actions, the board desires to ensure that the changes that were promised are actually made and that systems are in place to avoid future problems.”

— David Boren, University of Oklahoma president and Big 12 board chairman

Baylor is not being fined; the money is being placed in escrow pending a third-party verification of Baylor’s reform efforts. But the sanction is the first by the Big 12 since the school in Waco, Texas, was hit by a wave of complaints that it repeatedly or intentionally mishandled assault allegations, many of them involving football players.

Baylor fired coach Art Briles last year and parted ways with university President Ken Starr and athletic director Ian McCaw after an investigation by a law firm found allegations of sexual assault brought to the school were not dealt with appropriately.

The nation’s largest Baptist university still faces at least six federal and state lawsuits as well as a federal civil rights investigation into claims the school and football program ignored, mishandled or tried to cover up reports of sexual or physical abuse and other criminal misdeeds across campus for years. One court filing last week alleges more than 50 acts of rape by more than 30 football players over a four-year period, and that Baylor football promoted a culture of “sex, drugs and violence.”

Most of the allegations stem

from a highly successful time for the football program: From 2008-2015 under Briles, Baylor went from perennial doormat in the Big 12 to a championship contender, winning consecutive football titles in 2013-14.

Baylor hired Mack Rhoades away from Missouri to be its new athletic director last year and brought in former Temple coach Matt Rhule to take over the football program.

Baylor was given 105 recommendations for reforming its Title IX process by Pepper Hamilton, the firm that handled the initial investigation.

Interim President David Garland said the university considered the recommendations a “mandate.”

“Baylor already had planned to hire an outside auditor to audit the implementation of our enhanced practices, and we welcome the Big 12 Conference’s request of an independent review,” Garland said in a statement.

“While the withholding of conference distributions is an unexpected financial event, we do not deem these actions to materially impact the overall financial position of the university. We pledge our full cooperation, and we will work with the Big 12 Conference to conduct the audit as

expeditiously as possible.”

Bowlsby said earlier this week Baylor has made “significant progress” on the recommendations from Pepper Hamilton.

Bowlsby said the conference was limited in what actions it could take against Baylor because it does not have an investigative arm and its bylaws do not necessarily cover the school’s alleged transgressions. He said the Big 12 would rely on the findings of the federal Office of Civil Rights, which enforces Title IX, and the NCAA to determine possible punishments for Baylor.

“But the board has some prerogatives that they’ve discussed from time to time,” Bowlsby said in a telephone interview.

“It’s not a clear-cut process. I would say as you start to see comments come up about legal services being arranged (for football players) or there being some measure of documented cover up or steps to keep the lid on things, as came out last week , that’s when my antenna start going up because you begin to think about extra benefits for student-athletes and I’m sure the antenna is going up at (NCAA headquarters) in Indianapolis.”

When the NCAA sanctioned Penn State in 2012, using the findings of the Freeh Report, the Big Ten followed with sanctions of its own that included ineligibility for the conference football championship game and a fine equal to the school’s conference bowl revenue payout, approximately $13 million.

BRIEFLY Furyk tweaks Ryder Cup points system Pebble Beach, Calif. (Ap) — Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk is tweaking the U.S. points system to put more value on winning PGA Tour events than high finishes in the majors.

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Furyk says because majors have such high purses, finishing third in a major is equal to winning a tour event when points are doubled.

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and will factor heavily into how Mason, Graham and Jackson will be remembered.

3. 1996-97 — Jacque Vaughn, Jerod Haase and Paul Pierce Had Pierce stayed for his senior season, which players actually did back then, he likely would have scored enough to move into the No. 2 spot on KU’s all-time scoring list.

2. 2002-03 — Aaron As it stands, the future Miles, Keith Langford NBA champion and 10and Kirk Hinrich time All Star sits in ninth This group features place with 1,768 career the Big 12 and KU’s points, the most per all-time leading assist man in Miles (954 career season by any Jayhawk not named Chamberlain, assists) and two of KU’s Top 11 all-time scorers in Lovellette or Manning.

Add to that fierce comLangford (7th with 1,812 points) and Hinrich (11th, petitors like Vaughn and Haase, who defended as 1753 points). Beyond well as any KU backcourt that, they played fast, fit ever and also did enough together perfectly and offensively to keep teams led the Jayhawks to the from swarming Pierce and 2003 NCAA title game, an achievement that can’t it’s easy to see why this be overlooked on this list group was known as one

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The Cowgirls entered Wednesday’s game ranked fourth in the conference in rebounding margin, but the Jayhawks — who ranked last — outrebounded them 43-42.

“I thought our team showed a lot of toughness,” Schneider said.

“To even be in the neighborhood in the rebounding battle with these guys (Oklahoma State) is something to be proud of.”

Junior Jessica Washington scored 12 points while sophomore Kylee Kopatich added seven points, but both players were saddled with foul trouble in the second and third quarters. So the Jayhawks needed somebody to step up on the offensive end.

in college basketball by playing fast, tough and with a ferocious will to 4. 2007-08 — Russell win. Leading the second Robinson, Mario Chalm- Roy Williams-coached ers and Brandon Rush team to reach the Final The only trio on this list Four in Williams’ first with a national championfour seasons at Kansas, all ship ring falls to fourth on three guards averaged in my list simply because of double figures in scoring the incredible talent that and accounted for 44 persurrounded them. KU’s cent of the team’s scoring 2008 title team was known and 61 percent of its assist as one of the deepest and total. Jordan was the first most balanced groups in big time recruit landed by recent memory and it was Williams at Kansas, and the presence of players when Walters joined him like Darrell Arthur, Darnell after transferring from Jackson and Sasha Kaun, Northwestern, it was a along with Sherron Collins, match made in heaven. who shared point guard duties with Russell Robinson, 6. 2009-10 — Sherron Collins, Tyshawn Taythat made this team so lor and Xavier Henry tough to beat.

Led by Collins’ 15.5 5. 1992-93 — Adonis points-per-game average Jordan, Rex Walters and tenacious attitude, and Steve Woodberry the Jayhawks entered the For two seasons in the 2010 NCAA Tournament early ’90s, Jordan and as the No. 1 overall seed Walters set the standard with a 32-2 record. Two for tough backcourts games later, their season of the best college teams to not win a national title.

Thomas Robinson, Perry Ellis or set of Morris twins to help them out.

That’s not a knock on this team’s supporting cast, more a tip of the cap to just how good these three have been.

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MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Mandy Coleman 40 5-13 8-9 3-13 3 19 Katelyn Loecker 32 2-4 0-0 2-5 3 4 Kaylee Jensen 24 4-14 2-4 4-9 5 11 Areanna Combs 20 2-5 0-3 1-1 1 4 Karli Wheeler 35 3-9 3-3 0-2 3 9 Diana Omozee 29 0-5 2-4 1-5 1 2 Jentry Holt 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Rodrea Echols 7 0-1 0-0 0-2 1 0 LaTashia Jones 4 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 Alexes Bryant 6 0-0 0-2 0-2 1 0 team 2-2 Totals 16-52 15-23 14-42 18 49 Three-point goals:2-10 (Coleman 1-5, Jensen 1-2, Wheeler 0-2, Echols 0-1).

Assists: 5 (Coleman 3, Jensen 1, Wheeler 1). Turnovers: 25 (Coleman 1, Loecker 3, Jensen 3, Combs 3, Wheeler 5, Omozee 3, Holt 1, Jones 2, team 4). Blocked shots: 6 (Coleman 1, Loecker 1, Jensen 1, Combs 1, Omozee 2). Steals: 7 (Loecker 1, Jensen 2, Combs 2, Omozee 1, Bryant 1).

O’Neal and Robertson did just that.

Robertson scored a team-high 14 points, and O’Neal added 13 points and made three shots from beyond the arc. The scoring outputs were season-highs for both players.

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MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Sydney Umeri 18 0-1 1-2 3-8 2 1 J. Washington 24 4-13 1-2 0-2 4 12 J. Christopher 32 4-12 1-1 2-4 1 19 Chayla Cheadle 22 2-5 1-1 2-7 1 6 Kylee Kopatich 22 3-9 0-0 0-1 4 7 Chelsea Lott 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Jada Brown 19 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 Timeka O’Neal 16 4-6 2-2 0-2 2 13 Aisia Robertson 25 6-19 0-0 5-6 3 14 C. Manning-Allen 20 2-2 1-2 3-8 3 5 team 2-4 Totals 25-69 7-11 17-43 22 67 Three-point goals: 10-23 (Washington 3-4, Christopher 0-2, Cheadle 1-3, Kopatich 1-2, Brown 0-1, O’Neal 3-5, Robertson 2-6). Assists: 10 (Washington 4, Christopher 3, Cheadle 1, Kopatich 1, Manning-Allen 1). Turnovers: 17 (Washington 1, Christopher 4, Cheadle 3, Kopatich 1, Brown 2, Robertson 1, ManningAllen 3, team 2). Blocked shots: 4 (Umeri 1, Manning-Allen 3). Steals: 9 (Washington 1, Christopher 2, Cheadle 2, O’Neal 1, Robertson 1, Manning-Allen 2).

Oklahoma State 6 9 17 17 — 49 Kansas 14 15 20 18 — 67

“They were terrific,” Schneider said. “It’s nice to see Aisia be aggressive.

Meek (O’Neal) continues to do what we expect her to do. We trust her threepoint shot so much, especially when she catches it in rhythm.”

The Jayhawks (8-16,

2-11) never trailed in the game, and opened up an 8-0 lead off baskets from Washington, Kopatich and junior Chayla Cheadle. They only scored six points over the next eight minutes, but maintained their lead by holding the Cowgirls to six points in the quarter, tying their best defensive quarter of the season.

Then the Jayhawks opened up the second quarter on a 6-1 run to open up a 20-7 lead, and took a 29-15 lead into halftime.

It was more of the same in the third quarter, and the Jayhawks eventually opened up a 21-point lead after back-to-back 3-pointers by Washington and O’Neal.

The Cowgirls never threatened the rest of the way.

Kansas will travel to Texas at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

was over, well short of where anyone thought it would end, but that did not erase the monster effort turned in by this trio of athletic and attacking guards that could deliver inside and out.

as tough as nails on the defensive end, this group also benefited a great deal from the presence of All-American Thomas Robinson and shot blocker extraordinaire Jeff Withey.

7. 2011-12 — Tyshawn Taylor, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford Not the most impressive group when it comes to the recruiting rankings, but they may have had the most impressive run of any trio on this list. Refusing to lose time after time in the 2012 NCAA Tournament, Taylor, Johnson and Releford led the Jayhawks all the way to the national title game where they fell to Kentucky in a game that many believe could have gone KU’s way if the game was just a few minutes longer. Long, athletic, deadly in transition and

8. 2013-14 — Naadir Tharpe, Wayne Selden Jr. and Andrew Wiggins When you’ve got a team that includes arguably the best recruit a school has ever landed, it has to show up somewhere on a list like this. But as good as Wiggins was on the stat sheet during his lone season as a Jayhawk, this group never quite gelled and went home early after a disappointing loss to Stanford in the second game of the 2014 NCAA Tournament. All three players were among KU’s Top 5 leading scorers that season, with Wiggins leading the way with 17.1 points per game.

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the state of Louisiana, including two prospects ranked in the top 60 in the nation, five of the commitments happening after the recruits attended KU’s basketball loss Saturday to Iowa State at Allen Fieldhouse.

“It’s a pleasure in this business to reward people for a job well done,” Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger said.

“And the thing about Tony that I think it’s important for people to know is this isn’t just about recruiting.

“Tony has a way with players that’s important for this program. We’re talking about a former engineer at NASA. He’s an impressive guy who gave up that career for what he felt was a calling to go back and be a teacher and

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Tony has a way with players that’s important for this program. We’re talking about a former engineer at NASA. He’s an impressive guy who gave up his career for what he felt was a calling to go back and be a teacher and a coach and affect young people’s lives.”

— Sheahon Zenger, Kansas athletic director

a coach and affect young people’s lives.”

Hull grew up in New Orleans East, an area hit hard by a tornado Tuesday. Hull tweeted that he was driving in New Orleans when the tornado hit and he posted photos of the neighborhood in the wake of the tornado.

He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

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Clippers 119, Knicks 115 New York — Blake Griffin scored a seasonhigh 32 points and Los Angeles beat New York 119-115 on Wednesday night.

L.A. CLIPPERS (119) Mbah a Moute 1-3 0-0 2, Griffin 11-23 8-11 32, Jordan 12-14 4-9 28, Redick 4-12 4-4 14, Rivers 3-10 0-1 7, Anderson 0-1 0-0 0, W.Johnson 2-3 0-0 4, Bass 2-3 0-0 4, Speights 2-5 0-0 5, Felton 1-6 0-0 3, Crawford 7-12 3-3 20. Totals 45-92 19-28 119.

NEW YORK (115) Anthony 10-20 5-6 28, Porzingis 10-19 3-4 27, O’Quinn 8-13 2-2 18, Rose 10-16 0-0 20, Lee 2-4 0-0 4, Kuzminskas 2-8 0-0 4, Hernangomez 0-3 5-6 5, Plumlee 0-0 0-0 0, Jennings 2-3 0-0 4, Holiday 2-6 0-0 5. Totals 46-92 15-18 115.

L.A. Clippers 36 32 20 31—119 New York 36 31 28 20—115 3-Point Goals-L.A. Clippers 10-25 (Crawford 3-4, Griffin 2-3, Redick 2-6, Felton 1-1, Rivers 1-3, Speights 1-4, Anderson 0-1, W.Johnson 0-1, Mbah a Moute 0-2), New York 8-27 (Porzingis 4-7, Anthony 3-7, Holiday 1-5, Jennings 0-1, Rose 0-1, Lee 0-1, Kuzminskas 0-5). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-L.A. Clippers 47 (Jordan 15), New York 41 (Anthony, Hernangomez 9). AssistsL.A. Clippers 22 (Rivers 10), New York 25 (Rose 8). Total Fouls-L.A. Clippers 20, New York 22. A-19,812 (19,812).

Heat 106, Bucks 88 Milwaukee — Hassan Whiteside had 23 points and 16 rebounds, and Miami extended its winning streak to 12 games with a victory over Milwaukee.

MIAMI (106) Babbitt 0-6 0-0 0, Whiteside 10-12 3-6 23, Dragic 7-13 2-3 16, McGruder 4-13 0-0 10, Ellington 6-11 0-0 17, White 2-3 2-2 7, Reed 2-5 0-0 5, J.Johnson 7-12 4-5 20, T.Johnson 3-11 2-2 8. Totals 41-86 13-18 106.

MILWAUKEE (88) Antetokounmpo 9-15 2-2 22, Snell 2-6 0-0 6, Henson 1-3 3-5 5, Parker 6-11 2-3 14, Dellavedova 2-6 0-0 5, Beasley 4-6 3-7 11, Teletovic 1-5 0-0 3, Monroe 2-5 2-3 6, Terry 2-2 1-2 5, Middleton 2-5 1-2 5, Brogdon 2-7 2-4 6. Totals 33-71 16-28 88.

Miami 28 27 26 25 — 106 Milwaukee 15 29 19 25 — 88 3-Point Goals-Miami 11-33 (Ellington 5-8, J.Johnson 2-5, McGruder 2-8, Reed 1-1, White 1-2, T.Johnson 0-2, Dragic 0-2, Babbitt 0-5), Milwaukee 6-15 (Antetokounmpo 2-3, Snell 2-4, Dellavedova 1-2, Teletovic 1-3, Middleton 0-1, Parker 0-1, Brogdon 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsMiami 48 (Whiteside 16), Milwaukee 34 (Antetokounmpo 8). Assists-Miami 23 (Dragic 7), Milwaukee 18 (Brogdon 6). Total Fouls-Miami 21, Milwaukee 18. Technicals-Reed, Milwaukee defensive three second, Milwaukee team, Monroe. A-14,211 (18,717).

Cavaliers 132, Pacers 117 Indianapolis — Kyle Korver scored a seasonhigh 29 points and LeBron James gave Cleveland a second-half energy boost, lifting the defending champs over Indiana.

CLEVELAND (132) James 9-16 6-8 25, Love 3-11 7-7 14, Thompson 3-3 0-0 6, Irving 12-22 5-5 29, Liggins 3-4 1-1 8, R.Jefferson 1-3 4-4 7, Frye 2-7 0-0 5, Felder 0-0 0-0 0, McRae 2-5 0-0 6, Korver 10-12 1-1 29, Jones 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 46-84 24-26 132.

INDIANA (117) George 9-19 2-3 22, Miles 7-11 3-3 23, Allen 3-6 0-0 6, Turner 4-10 8-8 16, Teague 7-14 5-6 22, Robinson 1-3 0-0 2, Christmas 0-0 0-0 0, Seraphin 0-3 0-0 0, A.Jefferson 2-2 1-2 5, Stuckey 1-5 1-2 3, J.Young 2-2 0-0 5, Ellis 5-7 2-2 13. Totals 41-82 22-26 117.

Cleveland 25 32 40 35 — 132 Indiana 36 27 18 36 — 117 3-Point Goals-Cleveland 16-36 (Korver 8-9, McRae 2-4, Jones 1-1, James 1-2, Liggins 1-2, R.Jefferson 1-3, Frye 1-3, Love 1-7, Irving 0-5), Indiana 13-25 (Miles 6-9, Teague 3-5, George 2-5, J.Young 1-1, Ellis 1-2, Stuckey 0-1, Turner 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Cleveland 39 (Love, Thompson 10), Indiana 38 (George 8). Assists-Cleveland 24 (James 9), Indiana 24 (Teague 14). Total FoulsCleveland 16, Indiana 18. TechnicalsIndiana defensive three second 2, Indiana team 2, Ellis. A-17,580 (18,165).

How former Jayhawks fared

Markieff Morris, Washington Calf injury

Cole Aldrich, Minnesota Min: 5. Pts: 0.

Reb: 0. Stl: 1.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Min: 33. Pts: 0.

Reb: 3. Stl: 1.

Darrell Arthur, Denver Min: 21. Pts: 10.

Reb: 4. Ast: 1.

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

Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Min: 19. Pts: 8.

Reb: 10. Ast: 3.

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

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Late game.

Marcus Morris, Detroit Min: 28. Pts: 14.

Reb: 6. Ast. 3

Spurs 111, 76ers 103 Philadelphia — Kawhi Leonard scored 32 points, Tony Parker added 18 and San Antonio beat Philadelphia.

SAN ANTONIO (111) Leonard 9-18 11-11 32, Aldridge 5-10 5-6 15, Dedmon 4-5 2-3 10, Parker 7-12 3-3 18, Green 4-8 0-0 11, Anderson 1-1 0-0 2, Bertans 3-5 1-2 9, Lee 1-2 0-0 2, Anthony 1-2 0-0 2, Mills 2-5 0-0 5, J.Simmons 1-3 0-0 2, Ginobili 1-3 0-0 3.

Totals 39-74 22-25 111.

PHILADELPHIA (103) Covington 6-14 4-4 18, Ilyasova 4-11 1-3 11, Okafor 5-10 10-11 20, McConnell 3-10 0-0 6, Henderson 1-5 3-4 6, Noel 1-4 2-5 4, Saric 8-11 0-0 20, Rodriguez 1-7 0-0 2, Luwawu-Cabarrot 0-1 0-0 0, Stauskas 5-10 2-2 16. Totals 34-83 22-29 103.

San Antonio 29 29 24 29 — 111 Philadelphia 23 28 24 28 — 103 3-Point Goals-San Antonio 11-22 (Green 3-4, Leonard 3-7, Bertans 2-4, Parker 1-1, Ginobili 1-2, Mills 1-3, Aldridge 0-1), Philadelphia 13-34 (Saric 4-5, Stauskas 4-7, Ilyasova 2-6, Covington 2-7, Henderson 1-3, Luwawu-Cabarrot 0-1, Rodriguez 0-5). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-San Antonio 47 (Dedmon 11), Philadelphia 35 (Okafor 8). AssistsSan Antonio 24 (Parker, Leonard 5), Philadelphia 23 (Stauskas 7). Total Fouls-San Antonio 22, Philadelphia 19.

Technicals-Covington. A-19,233 (20,328).

Wizards 114, Nets 110, OT New York — Bradley Beale scored 31 points, John Wall added 23 points and 12 assists, and Otto Porter Jr. had 20 points and 10 rebounds as Washington sent Brooklyn to its 11th straight loss.

WASHINGTON (114) Oubre 0-5 0-2 0, Porter 6-13 5-6 20, Gortat 5-10 4-4 14, Wall 7-24 8-10 23, Beal 12-25 4-4 31, Smith 5-9 4-7 15, Mahinmi 1-3 0-0 2, Burke 3-6 0-0 7, Satoransky 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 40-97 25-33 114.

BROOKLYN (110) Lopez 8-17 4-4 20, Dinwiddie 1-4 0-0 2, Hollis-Jefferson 5-7 3-4 13, Foye 1-4 1-2 3, Bogdanovic 6-18 7-7 21, Booker 6-12 2-5 14, Hamilton 1-5 0-2 3, Whitehead 2-6 2-2 7, LeVert 2-6 4-6 9, Kilpatrick 3-7 2-4 10, Harris 3-5 0-0 8.

Totals 38-91 25-36 110.

Washington 31 28 20 21 14 — 114 Brooklyn 22 27 23 28 10 — 110 3-Point Goals-Washington 9-25 (Beal 3-6, Porter 3-8, Smith 1-2, Burke 1-2, Wall 1-4, Oubre 0-3), Brooklyn 9-33 (Kilpatrick 2-3, Harris 2-3, Bogdanovic 2-9, Whitehead 1-2, LeVert 1-3, Hamilton 1-4, Dinwiddie 0-1, Hollis-Jefferson 0-1, Foye 0-3, Lopez 0-4). Fouled Out-Lopez.

Rebounds-Washington 54 (Gortat 14), Brooklyn 55 (Hollis-Jefferson, Booker 11). Assists-Washington 21 (Wall 12), Brooklyn 20 (Lopez, Bogdanovic 4).

Total Fouls-Washington 26, Brooklyn 24. Technicals-Washington coach Scott Brooks. A-13,179 (17,732).

Thomas Robinson, L.A. Lakers Inactive.

Brandon Rush, Minnesota Min: 20. Pts: 0.

Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Andrew Wiggins, Minnesota Min: 38. Pts: 31.

Reb: 5. Ast: 6.

Jeff Withey, Utah Min: 5. Pts: 2. Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Hawks 117, Nuggets 106 Atlanta — Dennis Schroder had 24 points and 10 assists and Atlanta held off a late rally by Denver.

DENVER (106) Chandler 9-17 2-5 24, Faried 0-2 1-2 1, Jokic 8-17 0-0 18, Nelson 2-8 0-0 6, Harris 5-14 2-3 13, Hernangomez 2-4 1-2 6, Barton 6-19 5-7 17, O’Bryant 0-0 0-0 0, Arthur 4-10 0-0 10, Beasley 0-0 0-0 0, Murray 4-9 2-2 11. Totals 40-100 13-21 106.

ATLANTA (117) Bazemore 4-8 3-4 14, Millsap 9-15 3-3 23, Howard 5-9 1-2 11, Schroder 10-19 4-4 24, Hardaway Jr. 6-15 0-0 14, Bembry 5-7 0-0 10, Muscala 3-7 4-5 10, Humphries 3-4 0-0 7, Delaney 2-8 0-0 4, Dunleavy 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 47-93 15-18 117.

Denver 30 25 32 19 — 106 Atlanta 39 33 26 19 — 117 3-Point Goals-Denver 13-44 (Chandler 4-7, Jokic 2-3, Arthur 2-4, Nelson 2-5, Hernangomez 1-3, Murray 1-5, Harris 1-8, Barton 0-9), Atlanta 8-27 (Bazemore 3-4, Millsap 2-5, Hardaway Jr. 2-7, Humphries 1-2, Dunleavy 0-1, Delaney 0-2, Muscala 0-2, Schroder 0-4). Fouled Out-Chandler. Rebounds-Denver 49 (Jokic 15), Atlanta 48 (Howard 13).

Assists-Denver 25 (Nelson 8), Atlanta 31 (Schroder 10). Total Fouls-Denver 20, Atlanta 18. Technicals-Denver coach Michael Malone, Atlanta defensive three second, Atlanta team, Howard.

A-14,222 (18,118).

Pistons 121, Lakers 102 Auburn Hills, Mich. — Andre Drummond had 24 points and 17 rebounds, and Detroit handed Los Angeles one more loss.

L.A. LAKERS (102) Young 3-9 2-3 9, Ingram 6-10 0-0 15, Randle 7-13 3-4 17, Black 4-9 0-0 8, Russell 1-2 0-0 2, Deng 1-5 0-0 3, Nance 3-5 0-0 6, Zubac 2-5 1-2 5, Huertas 3-8 1-1 8, Calderon 0-0 0-0 0, Clarkson 3-10 6-7 12, Williams 4-10 9-9 17. Totals 37-86 22-26 102.

DETROIT (121) Morris 6-14 1-2 14, Leuer 9-17 2-2 20, Drummond 12-19 0-3 24, Jackson 2-5 0-2 4, Caldwell-Pope 2-7 4-5 9, Harris 7-12 3-5 19, Johnson 2-3 3-3 7, Hilliard 0-1 0-0 0, Bullock 0-2 0-0 0, Baynes 4-7 2-2 10, Marjanovic 2-2 0-0 4, Udrih 0-2 0-0 0, Smith 5-6 0-0 10. Totals 51-97 15-24 121.

L.A. Lakers 25 25 20 32 — 102 Detroit 25 31 36 29 — 121 3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 6-23 (Ingram 3-4, Huertas 1-3, Deng 1-4, Young 1-4, Clarkson 0-3, Williams 0-5), Detroit 4-16 (Harris 2-3, Morris 1-3, Caldwell-Pope 1-4, Johnson 0-1, Hilliard 0-1, Leuer 0-2, Jackson 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-L.A. Lakers 41 (Black 10), Detroit 52 (Drummond 17). Assists-L.A. Lakers 21 (Ingram, Russell 5), Detroit 32 (Jackson 8). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 21, Detroit 14. TechnicalsL.A. Lakers team, L.A. Lakers coach Luke Walton, Detroit defensive three second, Detroit team.

A-15,121 (19,971).

Grizzlies 110, Suns 91 Memphis, Tenn. — Mike Conley scored 23 points, Marc Gasol added 19 and Memphis took advantage of Olathe Northwest quadrangular Phoenix’s poor shooting.

PHOENIX (91) Warren 2-6 0-1 4, Chriss 1-5 1-2 4, Chandler 1-4 3-4 5, Bledsoe 3-15 9-9 16, Booker 6-13 8-10 20, Dudley 2-5 1-2 5, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Tucker 2-8 2-2 6, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Len 5-8 0-0 11, Knight 5-11 4-4 16, Ulis 0-0 0-0 0, Barbosa 2-12 0-0 4. Totals 29-87 28-34 91.

MEMPHIS (110) Parsons 3-7 0-2 8, Green 4-4 2-2 11, Gasol 6-11 6-6 19, Conley 7-10 5-5 23, Allen 4-12 2-4 10, Ennis 2-3 2-3 7, Wright 2-8 1-4 5, Harrison 0-0 2-2 2, Douglas 2-6 6-6 11, Daniels 5-11 0-0 14.

Totals 35-72 26-34 110.

Phoenix 15 23 27 26 — 91 Memphis 24 22 33 31 — 110 3-Point Goals-Phoenix 5-23 (Knight 2-4, Len 1-1, Chriss 1-3, Bledsoe 1-4, Dudley 0-2, Tucker 0-2, Booker 0-3, Barbosa 0-4), Memphis 14-24 (Conley 4-5, Daniels 4-9, Parsons 2-3, Green 1-1, Gasol 1-2, Ennis 1-2, Douglas 1-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Phoenix 46 (Chandler, Tucker 10), Memphis 41 (Green 10). Assists-Phoenix 13 (Dudley, Bledsoe, Booker 3), Memphis 24 (Parsons 7). Total Fouls-Phoenix 27, Memphis 25. Technicals-Ulis, Chriss, Williams, Booker, Daniels, Green.

Ejected-Ulis, Chriss, Daniels. A-16,044 (18,119).

No. 6 Baylor 72, Oklahoma State 69 Stillwater, Okla. — Johnathan Motley scored 24 points to help Baylor hold off Oklahoma State 72-69 on Wednesday night.

The Bears led by 13 points with 4:13 to play, but Oklahoma State’s pressure defense made it a game.

The Cowboys could have taken the lead in the final minute, but Baylor’s Jo Lual-Acuil blocked Jawun Evans’ layup.

BAYLOR (21-3) Motley 9-12 6-8 24, Lual-Acuil 1-2 0-0 2, Wainright 1-5 0-1 2, Lecomte 4-12 4-5 15, McClure 4-6 0-0 10, Maston 3-4 0-0 6, Omot 1-3 0-0 3, Lindsey 4-6 0-0 10. Totals 27-50 10-14 72.

OKLAHOMA ST. (15-9) Hammonds 0-2 0-0 0, Solomon 2-6 2-2 6, Forte 4-9 0-0 11, Evans 7-17 2-2 16, Carroll 6-10 7-8 20, McGriff 0-2 3-4 3, Averette 2-2 0-0 4, Waters 0-1 0-0 0, Dziagwa 0-0 0-0 0, Dillard 3-7 2-3 9, N’Guessan 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 24-56 16-19 69.

Halftime-Baylor 34-30. 3-Point GoalsBaylor 8-23 (Lecomte 3-8, Lindsey 2-4, McClure 2-4, Omot 1-3, Wainright 0-4), Oklahoma St. 5-16 (Forte 3-6, Dillard 1-2, Carroll 1-2, Hammonds 0-1, Waters 0-1, Evans 0-4). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsBaylor 34 (Motley 11), Oklahoma St. 24 (Forte, Dillard, Evans 5). Assists-Baylor 19 (Lindsey, Wainright, Lecomte 4), Oklahoma St. 11 (Evans 6). Total FoulsBaylor 18, Oklahoma St. 18.

man guard James Bolden scored a career-high 17 points in 10 minutes and West Virginia survived an off-shooting night.

West Virginia (19-5, 7-4 Big 12) won for the first time ever at Oklahoma (8-15, 2-9) in five attempts and avenged an overtime defeat at the hands of the Sooners, who won 89-87 in Morgantown on Jan. 18.

WEST VIRGINIA (19-5) Ahmad 2-6 4-6 9, Adrian 5-8 1-2 13, Macon 2-4 0-0 4, Carter 2-7 1-2 7, Phillip 1-8 2-2 4, West 1-3 0-0 3, Bender 0-0 0-0 0, Konate 0-1 2-2 2, Watkins 1-3 0-0 2, Bolden 6-11 2-2 17, Myers 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 20-54 12-16 61.

OKLAHOMA (8-15) Doolittle 2-9 3-4 8, Lattin 2-2 5-8 9, McGusty 4-11 1-1 11, Woodard 2-11 2-2 6, Odomes 1-3 0-0 2, Buford 0-0 0-0 0, Freeman 0-1 0-0 0, McNeace 0-1 0-0 0, James 1-3 0-0 3, Strong-Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Shepherd 4-7 1-2 11. Totals 16-48 12-17 50.

Halftime-West Virginia 27-25. 3-Point Goals-West Virginia 9-19 (Bolden 3-6, Adrian 2-3, Carter 2-4, Ahmad 1-1, West 1-2, Phillip 0-3), Oklahoma 6-14 (Shepherd 2-2, McGusty 2-4, James 1-1, Doolittle 1-2, Woodard 0-5). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-West Virginia 29 (Adrian 7), Oklahoma 33 (Lattin 14).

Assists-West Virginia 12 (Phillip 3), Oklahoma 7 (Shepherd 3). Total FoulsWest Virginia 17, Oklahoma 17. A-8,608 (11,562).

No. 11 Cincinnati 60, Central Florida 50 No. 13 West Virginia 61, Cincinnati — Kyle Washington scored 14 Oklahoma 50 Norman, Okla. — Fresh- points and Cincinnati ex-

tended its winning streak to 15 games.

Washington also finished with 11 rebounds for his seventh double-double of the season as Cincinnati (22-2, 11-0 American Athletic Conference) won its 23rd consecutive home game.

UCF (15-9) Banyard 1-3 0-0 3, Fall 7-7 0-0 14, Taylor 5-13 4-4 14, Williams 3-12 0-0 8, Efianayi 0-4 2-2 2, Brown 1-2 2-2 4, Laing 0-0 0-0 0, Mumin 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 2-7 1-3 5. Totals 19-48 9-11 50.

CINCINNATI (22-2) Washington 6-13 0-0 14, Clark 3-12 2-2 8, Caupain 2-12 0-0 5, Johnson 3-5 0-0 9, Evans 4-10 2-2 11, Moore 1-2 0-0 2, Scott 1-2 0-0 2, Jenifer 2-5 0-0 6, Cumberland 1-4 1-1 3. Totals 23-65 5-5 60.

Halftime-Cincinnati 34-28. 3-Point Goals-UCF 3-15 (Williams 2-8, Banyard 1-1, Davis 0-2, Taylor 0-4), Cincinnati 9-29 (Johnson 3-5, Jenifer 2-3, Washington 2-5, Evans 1-4, Caupain 1-7, Cumberland 0-2, Clark 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-UCF 33 (Fall 11), Cincinnati 28 (Washington 11).

Assists-UCF 8 (Davis 4), Cincinnati 19 (Caupain, Evans 6). Total Fouls-UCF 7, Cincinnati 13. A-9,510 (13,176).

No. 14 Florida St. 95, North Carolina St. 71 Tallahassee, Fla. — Jonathan Isaac scored 21 points for Florida State.

NC STATE (14-11) Abu 6-11 4-7 16, Yurtseven 3-7 0-0 6, Henderson 6-14 1-2 17, D.Smith 4-8 0-1 8, Rowan 7-13 1-1 16, Hicks 0-1 0-2 0, Kapita 0-0 0-0 0, Dorn 2-6 4-4 8, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-60 10-17 71.

Today Varsity Girls: LHS-2161; OS-1929; ONW-1888; SME-1562 Holly Evans: 203-195-173 — 571 (first place) Diamonique Vann: 198-179-151 — 528 (2nd-tied) Morgan Daniels: 172-191-165 — 528 (2nd-tied) Hannah Reed: 157-123-199 — 479 Renea McNemee: 180-149-146 — 475 Ashley Dykes: 160-120-157 — 437 JV Girls: LHS-1801; OS 1567; ONW-1406; SME-1361 Carli Stellwagon: 178-190-213 — 581 (1st place) Emilie Rodman: 116-179-141 — 436 (2nd place) Lana Chieu: 129-119-151 — 399 (3rd place) Skyler Scrivner: 149-109-114 — 372 Jojo Blackwood: 88-122-113 — 323 Kira Auchenbach: 91-83-80 — 254 Varsity Boys: OS 2362; ONW 2356; LHS 2222; SME 1961 Javier Lemmons: 201-164-207 — 572 Cameron Stussie: 192-188-173 — 553 Adonis Stanwix: 180-202-163 — 545 Hunter Krom: 191-186-166 — 543 Noah Goepfert: 144-153-172 — 469 Ethan Huslig: 177-123-164 — 464 JV Boys: OS 2149; LHS 1949; SME 1785; ONW 1749 Pride Leggins: 148-190-235 — 573 (2nd place) Jared Radford: 142-168-180 — 490 Lorenzo Dan: 180-156-145 — 481 Isaac Cox: 103-164-138 — 405

Timberwolves 112, Raptors 109 Minneapolis — Andrew Wiggins scored 31 points against his home- Big 12 Men town team, Tyus Jones Kansas hit a 3-pointer with 19.5 Baylor seconds left and Minne- West Virginia TCU sota beat Toronto.

Iowa State TORONTO (109) Carroll 7-9 0-0 19, Siakam 1-2 1-4 3, Valanciunas 7-7 2-2 16, Lowry 6-19 4-5 20, DeRozan 12-25 5-7 30, Ross 5-9 0-0 11, Sullinger 0-2 0-0 0, Poeltl 2-2 0-0 4, Nogueira 1-1 0-0 2, Joseph 1-3 2-2 4, Powell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 42-79 14-20 109.

MINNESOTA (112) Wiggins 11-19 8-9 31, Towns 8-14 13-13 29, Dieng 4-8 2-2 11, Rubio 2-7 0-0 5, Rush 0-3 0-0 0, Muhammad 8-13 4-6 22, Bjelica 1-3 0-0 3, Aldrich 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 2-6 0-0 5, Stephenson 3-7 0-0 6.

Totals 39-80 27-30 112.

Toronto 33 30 25 21 — 109 Minnesota 25 28 30 29 — 112 3-Point Goals-Toronto 11-28 (Carroll 5-5, Lowry 4-13, Ross 1-4, DeRozan 1-4, Sullinger 0-1, Joseph 0-1), Minnesota 7-19 (Muhammad 2-5, Rubio 1-1, Dieng 1-1, Wiggins 1-2, Bjelica 1-3, Jones 1-4, Rush 0-1, Towns 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Toronto 36 (Carroll 9), Minnesota 36 (Towns 14).

Assists-Toronto 19 (Lowry, Joseph 5), Minnesota 22 (Rubio 7). Total FoulsToronto 22, Minnesota 20. A-13,832 (19,356).

Jazz 127, Pelicans 94 New Orleans — Joe Johnson scored 27 points, George Hill added 19, and Utah extended its winning streak to four games with a victory over struggling New Orleans.

UTAH (127) Ingles 1-3 0-0 3, Hayward 7-16 2-2 17, Favors 5-7 2-2 12, Gobert 4-10 2-2 10, G.Hill 6-11 5-8 19, Johnson 10-14 1-1 27, Lyles 3-7 0-0 8, Diaw 1-2 0-0 2, Withey 1-1 0-0 2, Neto 0-0 0-0 0, Mack 1-2 1-2 3, Exum 5-7 0-0 11, Burks 4-8 4-4 13.

Totals 48-88 17-21 127.

NEW ORLEANS (94) S.Hill 1-3 0-0 3, Davis 4-12 4-5 12, Jones 9-16 3-3 21, Holiday 7-12 0-3 15, Hield 3-7 0-0 8, Cunningham 2-4 0-0 4, Motiejunas 1-3 1-2 3, Frazier 1-4 9-10 11, Galloway 1-5 2-2 4, Moore 6-11 0-0 13. Totals 35-77 19-25 94.

Utah 32 30 28 37 — 127 New Orleans 25 28 16 25 — 94 3-Point Goals-Utah 14-32 (Johnson 6-8, Lyles 2-4, G.Hill 2-6, Exum 1-2, Ingles 1-3, Burks 1-3, Hayward 1-4, Favors 0-1, Mack 0-1), New Orleans 5-24 (Hield 2-6, S.Hill 1-3, Holiday 1-4, Moore 1-4, Frazier 0-1, Cunningham 0-1, Jones 0-1, Motiejunas 0-1, Galloway 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Utah 48 (Gobert 16), New Orleans 37 (Davis 10). Assists-Utah 25 (Exum 5), New Orleans 17 (Frazier 4). Total Fouls-Utah 19, New Orleans 17. Technicals-New Orleans defensive three second, New Orleans team. A-14,508 (16,867).

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FLORIDA ST. (21-4) Isaac 6-10 8-11 21, Ojo 4-7 3-4 11, Bacon 6-15 5-7 19, Mann 4-7 0-1 8, Rathan-Mayes 4-7 0-2 8, J.Smith 0-4 0-0 0, Cofer 3-5 0-0 8, Allen 1-1 0-0 2, Koumadje 2-2 1-2 5, Walker 0-3 0-0 0, Savoy 2-4 0-0 6, Angola-Rodas 1-2 2-2 4, Forrest 1-3 1-2 3. Totals 34-70 20-31 95.

Halftime-Florida St. 45-30. 3-Point Goals-NC State 5-21 (Henderson 4-11, Rowan 1-5, Hicks 0-1, Yurtseven 0-1, D.Smith 0-1, Dorn 0-2), Florida St. 7-18 (Cofer 2-2, Savoy 2-4, Bacon 2-7, Isaac 1-2, Walker 0-1, Mann 0-1, RathanMayes 0-1). Fouled Out-Yurtseven.

Rebounds-NC State 22 (Abu 6), Florida St. 47 (Mann 10). Assists-NC State 13 (D.Smith 6), Florida St. 20 (Mann 5).

Total Fouls-NC State 23, Florida St. 16.

A-9,432 (12,508).

No. 24 Xavier 72, Depaul 61 Cincinnati — Trevon Bluiett scored 20 points, and Xavier pulled away to its fourth straight victory.

DEPAUL (8-16) McCallum 3-8 0-0 6, Hanel 1-1 0-0 2, Cyrus 7-12 2-2 18, Garrett 4-10 2-2 12, Cain 6-14 2-4 15, Eichelberger 0-1 0-0 0, Cook 0-0 0-0 0, Harrison-Docks 3-7 0-0 8, Wood 0-1 0-0 0, Gage 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 24-55 6-8 61.

XAVIER (18-6) Jones 3-4 2-3 8, Bernard 3-4 0-1 9, Macura 3-7 7-7 13, Bluiett 8-18 0-0 20, Goodin 2-6 1-2 5, Gates 1-6 0-2 3, Barr 0-0 0-0 0, Stainbrook 0-0 0-0 0, Gaston 6-8 2-3 14, O’Mara 0-0 0-0 0, Schrand 0-0 0-0 0, Bergen 0-0 0-0 0, Peterson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-53 12-18 72.

Halftime-Xavier 41-34. 3-Point Goals-DePaul 7-24 (Cyrus 2-4, Garrett 2-6, Harrison-Docks 2-6, Cain 1-5, Gage 0-1, McCallum 0-2), Xavier 8-19 (Bluiett 4-8, Bernard 3-4, Gates 1-4, Goodin 0-1, Macura 0-2). Fouled Out-McCallum.

Rebounds-DePaul 22 (Cyrus 6), Xavier 35 (Gates 10). Assists-DePaul 12 (Garrett, Cain 4), Xavier 20 (Goodin 8).

Total Fouls-DePaul 20, Xavier 13.

League Overall 9-2 21-3 8-3 21-3 7-4 19-5 6-5 17-7 6-5 14-9 5-6 16-8 4-7 16-8 4-7 15-9 4-7 10-14 2-9 8-15

Kansas State Texas Tech Oklahoma State Texas Oklahoma Tuesday’s Games Texas Tech 61, TCU 62 Iowa State 65, Texas 67 Wednesday’s Games Baylor 72, Oklahoma State 69 West Virginia 61, Oklahoma 50 Saturday’s Games Kansas State at West Virginia, 11 a.m.

Kansas at Texas Tech, 1 p.m.

TCU at Baylor, 1 p.m.

Texas at Oklahoma State, 3 p.m.

Oklahoma at Iowa State, 5 p.m.

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League Overall Texas 13-0 19-4 Baylor 12-1 23-2 Oklahoma 10-3 19-6 Kansas State 7-5 17-7 West Virginia 4-8 16-8 Iowa State 4-8 13-10 TCU 4-8 12-11 Oklahoma State 3-9 13-10 Texas Tech 3-9 11-12 Kansas 2-11 8-16 Tuesday’s Game West Virginia 87, Oklahoma 90 Wednesday’s Games Texas Tech 62, TCU 76 Oklahoma State 49, Kansas 67 Saturday’s Games Iowa State at Kansas State, 1 p.m.

Kansas at Texas, 1:30 p.m.

Oklahoma State at West Virginia, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 6:30 p.m.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W Boston 33 Toronto 32 New York 22 Philadelphia 18 Brooklyn 9 Southeast Division

W Washington 31 Atlanta 31 Charlotte 24 Miami 23 Orlando 20 Central Division

W Cleveland 36

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Indiana 29 23 .558 7½ Chicago 26 26 .500 10½ Detroit 25 28 .472 12 Milwaukee 22 29 .431 14 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 40 12 .769 — Houston 38 17 .691 3½ Memphis 33 22 .600 8½ Dallas 20 32 .385 20 New Orleans 20 33 .377 20½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 34 19 .642 — Oklahoma City 30 23 .566 4 Denver 23 29 .442 10½ Portland 23 30 .434 11 Minnesota 20 33 .377 14 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 43 8 .843 — L.A. Clippers 32 21 .604 12 Sacramento 20 32 .385 23½ L.A. Lakers 18 37 .327 27 Phoenix 16 37 .302 28 Tuesday’s Games Charlotte 111, Brooklyn 107 Houston 128, Orlando 104 Portland 114, Dallas 113 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 132, Indiana 117 San Antonio 111, Philadelphia 103 Atlanta 117, Denver 106 Detroit 121, L.A. Lakers 102 Washington 114, Brooklyn 110, OT L.A. Clippers 119, New York 115 Memphis 110, Phoenix 91 Miami 106, Milwaukee 88 Minnesota 112, Toronto 109 Utah 127, New Orleans 94 Boston at Sacramento (n) Chicago at Golden State (n) Today’s Games Houston at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Boston at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Denver at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 7 p.m.

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

New Orleans at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Chicago at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Charlotte, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Denver at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 8 p.m.

Boston at Utah, 9 p.m.

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Wednesday EAST Boston U. 67, American U. 64 Colgate 70, Army 58 La Salle 67, Fordham 52 Lafayette 69, Holy Cross 59 Lehigh 79, Bucknell 71 Navy 62, Loyola (Md.) 59 Pittsburgh 83, Boston College 72 Seton Hall 72, Providence 70, OT St. Bonaventure 70, Saint Louis 55 UConn 97, South Florida 51 VCU 54, George Washington 53 SOUTH Florida St. 95, NC State 71 George Mason 76, Davidson 69 Houston 91, Tulane 62 Miami 74, Virginia Tech 68 Morehead St. 101, Murray St. 100, OT Tennessee 75, Mississippi 66 MIDWEST Cincinnati 60, UCF 50 Evansville 60, Loyola of Chicago 58 IUPUI 89, Nebraska-Omaha 78 Indiana St. 56, Bradley 54 Minnesota 101, Iowa 89, 2OT N. Dakota St. 82, S. Dakota St. 65 N. Iowa 49, S. Illinois 41 Ohio St. 70, Rutgers 64 South Dakota 93, Fort Wayne 82 Xavier 72, DePaul 61 SOUTHWEST Baylor 72, Oklahoma St. 69 Texas A&M 76, Missouri 73 Texas A&M-CC 80, SE Louisiana 75 W. Illinois 63, Oral Roberts 60 West Virginia 61, Oklahoma 50 FAR WEST New Mexico 74, Air Force 67 UC Irvine 64, UC Santa Barbara 47

BRIEFLY LHS girls place first at O-NW bowling quad Lawrence High junior Holly Evans bowled the top score Wednesday and two of her teammates tied for second at the Olathe Northwest quadrangular at Westridge Lanes in Topeka.

Evans bowled a 571 three-game series, including a high-game of 203.

Senior Morgan Daniels and junior Diamonique Vann tied for second with 528 series. Those scores helped the LHS girls bowling team place first at the quad by 232 pins over runner-up Olathe South, its fifth straight tournament victory.

Lawrence’s boys bowling team finished third.

Javier Lemmons led with a 572 series while Cameron

Stussie followed with a 553.

Seabury boys fall to Metro Academy, 64-58 Max Easter drilled a 3-pointer to force overtime, but Bishop Seabury’s boys basketball team lost, 64-58, to Metro Academy on Wednesday at Haskell Indian Nations University.

The loss snapped a 10game winning streak. Seabury senior Mikey Wycoff led with 24 points.

The Seahawks (13-3, ranked No. 3 in Class 2A) will face Veritas Christian at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Haskell.

Metro 14 10 16 11 13 – 64 Seabury 22 14 3 12 7 – 58 Metro – Derek Janssen 16, Jonathan Jackson 12, Braydon Unruh 15, Jackson Hall 3, Jack Frisbie 2, Nick Volz 16.

Seabury – Mikey Wycoff 24, Zach McDermott 12, Thomas DiZerega 6, Max Easter 3, Bansi King 13.

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Please bring men with statement as required by the Act, hereby finds that the structure in question is unsafe and dangerous and hereby orders that said structure be repaired or razed and removed and that the owner of record shall commence and trucks to move items. substantially complete the repair or removal of said structure on or before March 3, 2017. SECTION 4. AccordFind us on facebook at ingly, pursuant to K.S.A. 12-1753, the Governing Body hereby orders the owner of record of 1305 New Jersey Street American Estate Sales either to repair the structure in question or to raze and remove said structure until the premises is made safe and secure and further orders that the owner of record shall commence and substantially complete the repair or removal of said structure on or before March 3, 2017. SECTION 5. If the owner of record fails to comply with Sections 3 and 4, supra, or fails thereafter to diligently prosecute the same until the work is completed and the premises be made safe and secure, the Governing Body hereby directs the Enforcing Officer to demolish and remove the structure. SECTION 6. If the owner of record fails to comply with Sections 3 and 4, supra, or fails thereafter to diligently prosecute the same until the work is completed and the premises be made safe and secure and if such work subsequently is undertaken by the Enforcing Officer, then the Governing Body directs the Enforcing Officer, in accordance with K.S.A. 12-1755, to keep an account of the costs of such work, to sell any salvage from Pets the structure in question, and to apply any proceeds from those sales to the costs of razing and removing said structure and making the premises safe and secure. Any moneys that may be received from salvage that are in excess of the costs of razing and removing the structure to make the premises safe and secure, including the costs of publication and the costs of postage for mailing notices, shall, after the payment of those costs, be paid to the owner of the subject property. SECTION 7. If the owner of record fails to comply with Sections 3 and 4, supra, or fails thereafter to diligently prosecute the same until the work is completed and the premises be made safe and secure and if such work subsequently is undertaken by the Enforcing Officer and the costs of doing such exceed the moneys realized by any sale of salvage, then the Governing Body directs the Enforcing Officer to give notice to the owner of record of the total costs incurred by the City, less any receipts for the sale of salvage.

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PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM 5C Persons Concerned: You are hereby notified that on 31st of October, 2016, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court by Janice M. Dyer, as an heir, devisee and legatee, and executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Lida Jane Charters, deceased.

All creditors of the above named decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four months from the date of first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Janice M. Dyer, Petitioner Submitted by:

/s/ Doni L. Mooberry Doni Mooberry Supreme Court # 17829 901 Kentucky St., Suite 202 Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone: (785) 842-6662 Fax: (785) 842-6668 donim@mooberry financial.com Attorney for Petitioner _______

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the existing facility.

A complete text of the Ordinance may be obtained or viewed free of charge at the office of the City Clerk, 6 East 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044. A reproduction of the Ordinance is available for not less than 7 days following the publication date of this Summary at www.lawrenceks.org.

Lawrence

passed an ordinance entitled:

(First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on February 9, 2017) ORDINANCE NO. 9327 SUMMARY On February 7, 2017, the governing body of the City

Lawrence

of Lawrence, Kansas, the Ordinance is available passed an ordinance enti- for not less than 7 days tled: following the publication date of this Summary at AN ORDINANCE AMEND- www.lawrenceks.org.

ING CHAPTER 17, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF This Summary is hereby LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 2016 certified to be legally acAMEND- curate and sufficient purAND EDITION MENTS THERETO, RELAT- suant to the laws of the ING TO SPEED LIMITS. State of Kansas.

The Ordinance established a 20 mile per hour speed limit on East Glenn Drive between Harper Street and Maple Lane. A complete text of the Ordinance may be obtained or viewed free of charge at the office of DATED: February 8, 2017 the City Clerk, 6 East 6th Street, Lawrence, Kansas /s/ Toni R. Wheeler 66044. A reproduction of Toni R. Wheeler the Ordinance is available City Attorney for not less than 7 days _______ following the publication date of this Summary at (First published in the www.lawrenceks.org.

Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on February 9, 2017) This Summary is hereby certified to be legally acORDINANCE NO. 9326 curate and sufficient purSUMMARY suant to the laws of the State of Kansas.

On February 7, 2017, the governing body of the City DATED: February 8, 2017 of Lawrence, Kansas, This Summary is hereby certified to be legally accurate and sufficient pursuant to the laws of the State of Kansas.

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 17, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 2016 EDITION AND AMENDMENTS THERETO, RELATING TO ALL WAY STOP (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal- SIGNS. World on February 9, 2017) The Ordinance established an All Way Stop at the inORDINANCE NO. 9329 tersection of 21st Street SUMMARY and Tennessee Street; reOn February 7, 2017, the quiring traffic on 21st governing body of the City Street to come to a comof Lawrence, Kansas, plete stop at Tennessee passed an ordinance enti- Street, and, requiring traffic on Tennessee Street to tled: come to a complete stop AN ORDINANCE OF THE at 21st Street. A complete CITY OF LAWRENCE, KAN- text of the Ordinance may SAS, REPEALING EXISTING be obtained or viewed free CHAPTER V, ARTICLE 9 OF of charge at the office of THE CODE OF THE CITY OF the City Clerk, 6 East 6th LAWRENCE, 2015 EDITION, Street, Lawrence, Kansas AND AMENDMENTS THERE 66044. A reproduction of TO, AND ENACTING, IN ITS the Ordinance is available PLACE, CHAPTER V, ARTI- for not less than 7 days CLE 9 OF THE CODE OF following the publication THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, date of this Summary at EDITION, www.lawrenceks.org.

KANSAS, 2015 AND AMENDMENTS THERE TO, WHICH ADOPTS AND This Summary is hereby INCORPORATES BY REFER- certified to be legally acENCE THE 2015 INTERNA- curate and sufficient purTIONAL EXISTING BUILD- suant to the laws of the ING CODE, REGULATING State of Kansas.

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION WITHIN THE DATED: February 8, 2017 CITY OF LAWRENCE, KAN/s/ Toni R. Wheeler SAS. Toni R. Wheeler The Ordinance amended City Attorney _______ the Lawrence Building Code by adopting provisions of the 2015 International Existing Building Code that require storm shelters for K-12 educational facilities when an addition to an existing K-12 facility exceeds 25 percent of the floor area of

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/s/ Toni R. Wheeler Toni R. Wheeler City Attorney _______ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld on February 9, 2017) ABANDONED PROPERTY TO:

J.R. Salyer and Tammy Christine Stone, formerly of 717 N 4th, Lawrence, KS. Property left behind upon your eviction on 1-18-17, will be disposed of on or after 2-25-17. You must pay bills totaling $2976.68 prior to retrieving your possessions. This amount is the /s/ Toni R. Wheeler sum of charges from court Toni R. Wheeler costs, rental fees, unpaid City Attorney utilities, repairs to prop_______ erty, house cleaning, and yard cleaning. Line item (First published in the available upon request.

Lawrence Daily JournalIf bills are not paid and World on February 9, 2017) possessions are not picked up on or before ORDINANCE NO. 9328 2-25-17, they will be disSUMMARY posed of and further legal On February 7, 2017, the action will be taken for governing body of the City collection of bills and of Lawrence, Kansas, monies owed. passed an ordinance entiKaren Kolts-Retter tled: and Ken Retter Property Owners AN ORDINANCE OF THE 717 N 4th; Lawrence, KS CITY OF LAWRENCE, KAN_______ SAS, AMENDING CHAPTER V, ARTICLE 2, SECTION 5-206 OF THE CODE OF (First published in the THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, Lawrence Daily Journal2015 EDITION, AND World on February 9, 2017) THERETO, AMENDMENTS PERTAINING TO THE 2015 NOTICE TO BIDDERS INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE, REGULATING Sealed proposals will be BUILDING AND CON- received by the City of STRUCTION WITHIN THE Lawrence, Kansas, in the CITY OF LAWRENCE, KAN- Office of the City Clerk, 6 SAS, AND REPEALING East Sixth Street until 2:00 EXISTING SECTION 5-206. p.m., Tuesday, March 7, 2017, for the following: The Ordinance amended the Lawrence Building BID #1716 - Lower NaiCode by adopting provi- smith Valley Interceptor sions of the 2015 Interna- Sewer tional Building Code that require storm shelters for Copies of the Notice to newly constructed critical Contractors and specificaemergency operations fa- tions may be obtained at cilities, such as 911 call the Finance Department at stations, emergency oper- the above address. ation centers and fire, rescue, ambulance and police The City Commission restations, and for newly serves the right to reject constructed K-12 educa- any or all bids and to tional facilities.

A com- waive informalities. plete text of the Ordinance may be obtained or viewed City of Lawrence, Kansas free of charge at the office of the City Clerk, 6 East 6th Sherri Riedemann Street, Lawrence, Kansas City Clerk 66044. A reproduction of _______