Lawrence Journal-World 10-23-12

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In counter move, Dems seek input on school cuts Monday seeking examples of how cuts to education over the past several years have affected schools and families. “Administrators, parents, and teachers have been on the front lines trying to protect the quality of our children’s education with far fewer resources than they

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

T OPEKA — Angered over Gov. Sam Brownback’s solicitation of anonymous comments about allegations of waste in public schools, Democrats launched a website

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line at http://kshousedems.com/ k12survey. Democrats have been pounding Brownback, a Republican, over school finance. Last year, Brownback signed into law a record cut in base state aid per pupil and this Please see INPUT, page 2A Brownback

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need to do the job properly,” said House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence. “To imply that they are excessively inefficient is downright offensive. It’s time for Gov. Brownback to hear the stories and look beyond the bottom line.” The Democrats’ survey is on-

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INSIDE Free State, LHS to do battle

By Shaun Hittle

City Showdown football week has arrived in Lawrence. Free State (7-1 overall, 2-0 district) and Lawrence (7-1, 2-0) — two of the top teams in Class 6A — will meet on Friday. Page 1B

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Woman with rare disease dies Kim Banning-Bohmann of Lawrence, who suffered scleroderma, a disease that hardens the skin and connective tissue, died Monday. Her family and friends remembered her vibrant life even as they mourn her loss. Page 3A

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If someone needed help, you called on the American Indian Movement, and they showed up and caused all kind of ruckus and looked beautiful on a 20-second clip on TV that night.” — Paul DeMain, editor of News from Indian Country. Russell Means, a former leader of AIM, died Monday. Page 7A

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THE OLD VARSITY HOUSE IS BEING RECONSTRUCTED at the northwest corner of 11th and Indiana streets on the site of the new Varsity House Apartment complex. A deal was struck between the developers, City Hall and the Lawrence Preservation Alliance that the former boarding home, where college athletes used to stay, would be moved to a corner of the property. Once reassembled, the structure will serve as a boarding house next to the new apartment development. But concerns have arisen about how much of the original house will remain.

Officials upset over reassembly of Varsity House By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

An old home may spur a new battle between Lawrence City Hall and one of the city’s more prominent developers. A pair of city commissioners said they are up-

set with how Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel is following through on a deal to rebuild the old Varsity House at 11th and Indiana streets. Mike Yoder/Journal-World File Photo Fritzel and city commis- THE FORMER VARSITY HOUSE at 1043 Indiana is shown sioners last year agreed to a compromise that al- before it was taken down to make way for a new apartlowed his development ment project. This view is looking to the southwest from above Indiana. Please see HOUSE, page 2A

A convicted Lawrence sex offender was one of 14 Kansas men listed in the recently released “perversion files” kept by the Boy Scouts of America and released Thursday by order of the Oregon Supreme Court. According to the file, 72-year-old Lawrence resident James Douglas Jackson — convicted in Douglas County in 2001 of several sex crimes Jackson — was removed from a Kansas City, Kan.-area Boy Scout unit following allegations that Jackson sexually assaulted a boy during a scouting trip. Jackson had been registered with a scouting unit in Kansas City since 1981, and the allegations allege that Jackson abused a boy in May 1985, according to the file, obtained from a database operated by the San Jose Mercury News. Days following the alleged abuse, Jackson was sent a letter indicating he’d been removed from the Boy Scouts. Included in Jackson’s file is a three-page letter detailing the abuse. However, the letter is handwritten, and some of it is illegible. Please see SCOUTS, page 2A

INDEX Business 6A Classified 5B-10B Comics 9A Deaths 2A Events listings 10A, 2B Horoscope 9B Movies 4A Opinion 8A Puzzles 9B Sports 1B-4B Television 10A, 2B, 9B Vol.154/No.296 20 pages

Obama, on the attack in final debate, finds subdued Romney upend a race that remains remarkably tight with two weeks to go. No moment was more telling than WASHINGTON — President Barack when Romney had a clear opening to Obama came ready Monday for a respond to Obama’s lecture that he was fighting finish, deriding Mitt Rom- wrong and irresponsible on foreign afney as reckless and overfairs. He responded by giving matched in world affairs. his five-point plan for fixing Instead he found a subdued ANALYSIS the economy, leading to a bichallenger who was eager zarre exchange that took the to agree and determined to show he debate wildly off topic. was not a warmonger. It showed how much the comRomney starkly moderated his mander in chief was in his comfort tone and his approach in the closing zone, where the challenger regretted debate. Playing it safe, he tried not to that he was not in his. unnerve undecided voters who are Please see DEBATE, page 7A wary of another U.S.-led war, or to

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