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U.S. marks 9/11 anniversary today For the first time, the Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero has been stripped of politicians this year, but will the event ever not be associated with politics? Meanwhile, eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Page 7A COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Big 12 teams make a run for it Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma all rank in the top 10 nationally in rushing yards, led by the Wildcats with 612. Through the first two weeks of the season, all but one of the Big 12’s 10 teams are averaging more than five yards a run. Page 1B
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This is a long-term battle that everyone’s going to watch. Other teachers unions in the United States are wondering if they should follow suit.” — Eric Hanuskek, a senior fellow in education at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation’s third-largest city. Page 6A
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KANSAS GOV. SAM BROWNBACK SPEAKS TO AN AUDIENCE about Kansas’ population growth Monday at the Lied Center. The talk, which was part of the Anderson Chandler Lecture Series, focused on economic growth and tax policy in Kansas.
At KU, Brownback says law will grow Kan. economy, population By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Gov. Sam Brownback on Monday told approximately 1,200 people at the Lied Center that population and job growth were his primary goals in signing massive tax cuts into law. “I want to win our league,” Brownback said at the Kansas University School of Business Anderson Chandler Lecture Series. “We are trying to create a pro-growth environment,” said Brownback, a Republican who took office in January 2011. Outside, a group of about 15 people from the
Douglas County Democratic Party held signs that said, “Who Would Jesus Tax?” and “I’d Like a Koch To Buy the World,” a reference to the Koch brothers, leaders of Wichita-based Koch Industries and financial backers of groups that espouse tax cuts. Margie Wakefield, vice chair of the Douglas County Democrats, said Brownback’s tax cut “takes from the poor and gives to the rich.” Protester Patricia Brooks said: “The middle class shouldn’t have to pay for tax cuts for the millionaires and billionJEAN SHEPHERD, OF LAWRENCE, HOLDS A SIGN asking aires.” “Who would Jesus tax?” as people file into the Lied Please see BROWNBACK, page 2A Center to hear Gov. Sam Brownback speak Monday.
Kansas University announced Monday that it has received an $11 million, fiveyear grant that will allow researchers to investigate why people get diseases such as cancer, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Susan Lunte, a professor in the departments of chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry, received the National Institutes of Health grant, which is renewable. She said the fund- Lunte ing would be used to pay for more staffing and new equipment, and it will allow KU to partner with researchers from other state universities who are interested in the genetics of diseases. “It’s to grow the research enterprise in Kansas,” said Lunte, who has worked at KU for 25 years and is director of the Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry. “It’s pretty exciting.” She said the funding would support disease-related research that’s already taking place at KU. For example, she said, chemistry professor Michael Johnson has been studying Huntington’s disease, a hereditary degenerative brain disorder that slowly diminishes an individual’s ability to walk, talk and reason. It is estimated that 30,000 people have the disease nationwide, including 600 in Kansas. Johnson Please see GRANT, page 2A
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100 years later, temperance union still fights alcohol use
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HUTCHINSON (AP) — Much has changed in the 100 years since the Women’s Christian Temperance Union first set up a booth at the Kansas State Fair, but the organization continues to preach its message that people should never use alcohol, tobacco or drugs. Prohibition was in place in Kansas in 1913 when the state held its first official state fair and one of its vendors was the temperance union. Today, the fair offers a beer garden, and vendors can sell wine by the glass or bottle. But the temperance union’s message has not changed, the Hutchinson News reported. “Don’t drink alcohol,” said 90-year-old Glenna Dellen-
bach, the group’s oldest active alcohol, was in place from 1920 member. to 1933. The Women’s Christian “Men were going to work Temperance Union, which and earning money, then organized in 1874, led spending it all on alcohol,” the drive to prohibit the said Patricia Jackson, of use of alcohol across the Meade, who has been a country to “protect the member of the organizahome.” It later tion for eight years. added toKansas had statewide bacco and prohibition from 1881 drugs to to 1948, longer than its list of any other state. The dangerous state prohibited substances. on-premises liquor Prohibition, sales until 1987, and a national ban 19 of its 105 counties on the sale, are “dry,” meaning manufacon-premises liquor Carry A. Nation was a hatchetture, and sales are prohibwielding crusader in the early transporited, but the sale 1900s and part of the Women’s tation of of 3.2 percent beer Christian Temperance Union.
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is permitted. Another 65 counties are partially dry, allowing liquor by the drink at establishments with 30 percent food sales. Dellenbach said she thinks the organization has helped keep Kansas more conservative on alcohol laws than most other states. Currently, the union has 125 members in Kansas, but Dellenbach said there is renewed interest in the group’s message. She and others in Meade County restarted a union group in March after a liquor store moved in. Jackson also said she thought the group was making an impact again. “I just hope we’re getting the message across,” Jackson said.
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