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ers and the institutions, like schools, hospitals, the jail, the grocery stores and the restaurants that want to have access to local foods,� said Eileen Horn, who directs the work of the Food Policy Council. “The customers are asking for it, and there’s public interest in it, but they can’t access enough consistent supply.� Horn and other members of the Food Policy Council
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican, may have Democrats and moderate Republicans between a rock and a hard place. Here is the situation. The income tax cuts Brownback signed into law last year are draining the state treasury. Kansas will collect $5.5 billion in the fiscal year that starts July 1, which is approximately $700 million less than current spending. But Brownback has doubled down this year, calling for more tax cuts with the eventual phase-out of the state income tax. In order to do this and bal- Davis ance the budget, Brownback has proposed three major actions: making permanent what was supposed to be a temporary sales tax increase, eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction and transferring $245 million from the state highway fund to public schools. Hensley “This budget is being held together by duct tape and dental floss,� said House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence. “It’s all premised on keeping this irresponsible income tax (cut) in place,� said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka. “If the governor is not able to get some of the things that he wants here, I think he faces some real problems with being able to balance the budget,� Davis said. But conservatives, who now make up majorities in the House and Senate, have been
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA waves to the crowd gathered Monday at the west front of the U.S. Capitol after delivering his second inaugural address. See more photos and complete coverage of Monday’s ceremonial swearing-in on page 9A.
One-stop crop shop envisioned Food hub would be local collective for fresh produce
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Debbie Carter, who manages food service operations at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, says she likes to buy local produce for the hospital cafeteria whenever she can. “It tastes better,� she said. “And we’re a community hospital. I’ve always believed that we’re a community, we take care of the community, and when I can help out by buying what they have extra, I think I’m helping.�
But for an institution that serves, on average, about 700 meals a day, Carter said it’s often hard to find local produce in large enough quantities on a regular basis. “A lot of times they’ll call me and say, ‘I have extra of this,’ and that’s how we use it,� she said of produce offered by area farmers. “There really is no place that they can take it to when they have extra, which is what is needed in Lawrence.�
That’s the issue that the Douglas County Food Policy Council hopes to address in the near future. By developing a local “food hub,� organizers hope they can provide a centralized facility that can buy and aggregate locally produced food and make it available to larger, institutional buyers in the area on a regular basis. “A food hub is that linkage between the local farm-
MLK Day takes on added significance By Adam Strunk astrunk@ljworld.com
With Washington, D.C., full of pomp and circumstance for the second inauguration of the nation’s first black president, Kansas University on Monday held its own ceremony to honor the man who may have helped pave President Barack Obama’s way.
More than 50 people stood in the Strong Hall rotunda to listen to excerpts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail� before proceeding with lighted candles to a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in the Kansas Union. “It’s so important with African-American history that today we have our first African-American who has
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been elected twice,� Diamond Townsend, a high school student from Topeka, said of the holiday falling on the day of the inauguration. Distinguished professor of English Maryemma Graham spoke about the meaning of the day and the candlelight procession. Please see MLK, page 2A
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HELEN HENRY, 7, of Lawrence, gets ready for a candlelight vigil from Strong Hall on the Kansas University campus to the Kansas Union. Dozens of people took part in Monday’s vigil honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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