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Think before you drive tonight Local games expected to create traffic jam
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By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Two big games with two big crowds may cause a major traffic snarl tonight in the neighborhood between Lawrence High School and Allen Fieldhouse. Sports fans will be pouring into the area for the two games, both starting at 7 p.m. Lawrence High football hosts Shawnee Mission West in a quarterfinal playoff game, while Kansas University’s men’s basketball team plays its regular-season home opener against Southeast Missouri State. The Lawrence Police Department will direct traffic on 19th Street at Naismith Drive and at Iowa Street. Kim Murphree, a Lawrence police spokeswoman, said residents Please see TRAFFIC, page 4A
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TOP PHOTO: Lawrence High seniors Brett Van Blaricum, left, and Jake Mosiman cheer the Lions against Free State on Oct. 26 at Lawrence High. BOTTOM PHOTO: Free State students hold up pictures of the Firebird team during the same game. Free State and Lawrence High schools both have home football games at 7 p.m. today that coincide with a Kansas University men’s home basketball game, which could result in traffic jams. See more on the games in Sports, page 1B.
Kobach: People taking photos of their own ballots should be illegal TOPEKA — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he wants to make it illegal for people to take photographs of completed election ballots. Current state law prohibits election workers from taking pictures of ballots, but there is no law concerning individuals shooting photos of their own ballots. The practice has become more widespread because people want to post their ballots on social media sites.
Kobach said social media and photo-altering software have made the issue much more complicated but he plans to introKobach duce legislation in the next session to make such pictures illegal. He said that in the past, people took pictures of their ballots to prove how they voted in return for payment or favors.
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Roughly 100 people took advantage of an opportunity Thursday night to take a closer look at plans for a proposed new recreation center in northwest Lawrence and to ask city officials about the details. Among their questions at a open house event at Free State High School: What will the city get for a proposed $25 million cost, to be paid to the KU Endowment Association as part of an agreement? How will this benefit me if I live on the other side of town? And why, if the city goes forward with Corliss the proposed Endowment agreement, would developer Thomas Fritzel serve as a general contractor without going through a normal bidding process? Several residents asked variations of that last one to Lawrence City Manager David Corliss, one of several city staff members who manned different question stations. Corliss explained that the deal offered by the Endowment Association specified that Fritzel would serve in that capacity. And the potential agreement offered the city an opportunity to build a long-needed recreational center while also providing a positive economic impact. And in addition to all that, city officials believe they’d be getting additional value: officials have estimated total costs of the Please see REC, page 5A
State, feds won’t partner on exchange By John Milburn Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback said Thursday that Kansas will have a federally run health insurance exchange, after he declined to support the state insurance commissioner’s application for a state-federal partnership. Brownback had said months ago he would wait until after Tuesday’s election before moving forward on any provisions of the new federal health care law. He announced his decision about the required exchange — an online health insurance marketplace — after meeting
with Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, who sought the governor’s signature on a letter of support for a state-federal exchange. The decision Brownback illustrates the divide over the federal health care law between the conservative Republican governor and the moderate Republican commissioner. “My administration will not partner with the federal
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government to create a statefederal partnership insurance exchange because we will not benefit from it and implementing it could cost Kansas taxpayers millions of dollars,” Brownback said in a statement. He invited any elected official who supported the law, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s first term, to seek legislation during the 2013 legislative session where the issue can have a debate and vote. But states have only a week, until Nov. 16, to inform the Please see EXCHANGE, page 2A
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A 10 percent budget cut to the state prison system, which is already overcrowded, would be a threat to public safety, the Kansas secretary of corrections says. Page 3A
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