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Get ready: Another foot of snow in forecast for Monday Lawrence area. The storm could bring freezing rain and snow to the area tonight As Lawrence digs out from and Monday morning, before Thursday’s snowfall, another big switching to snow during the day. storm may be on the way Monday. The NWS predicts the snow will The National Weather Service end by Tuesday morning. has issued a winter storm watch According to the NWS, the for this evening through early heaviest snow should come MonTuesday morning and predicts day evening and Tuesday. Winds 10 to 12 inches of snow for the of 20 to 30 mph out of the northStaff Reports
northwest are also expected with the storm, possibly creating near white-out conditions at times. Megan Gilliland, city of Lawrence spokeswoman, said that if Lawrence gets snow before 8 a.m. Monday, the sidewalk snow ordinance will not go into effect Monday as originally planned. Gilliland said Lawrence plow crews finished all snow operations
as of noon Saturday and are already preparing for the upcoming storm by restocking and repairing equipment. Crews will be back on duty at midnight to be ready to go Monday morning. As of Saturday afternoon, the Lawrence school district had no plans to cancel school Monday. Vanessa Sanburn, Lawrence school board president, said Law-
rence schools already will have to hold classes April 26, the day built into the calendar in case of extra snow days, to make up for the three days of canceled classes the district has had so far this school year.
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Protesters target policies of Brownback, conservatives
‘There is no training school for this’
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
About 200 people rallied Saturday outside the Statehouse, protesting the policies of Gov. Sam Brownback and conservative Republicans. “It breaks my heart to see what some of the folks in the building behind me have been doing to the place What that we call home,” said Lisa Ochs, president of the Amer- burns me ican Federation of Teachers- most is Kansas. Many of the proposals when the opposed by the crowd deal folks in with restricting the Kansas this buildNational Education Asso- ing try to ciation and public employee take away unions. The crowd booed House your right Bill 2023, which would pro- to particihibit teachers and state employees from voluntarily pate in the having deducted from their political paychecks funds for political process.” activity. “What burns me most is — House Minority when the folks in this building try to take away your Leader Paul Davis, right to participate in the po- D-Lawrence litical process,” said House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence. “There is nothing more fundamental than your First Amendment right
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NIKKI WHITE, executive director of the Health Care Access, works with staff at the clinic on Tuesday. From left are Brenda Waite, registered nurse, Shannon Saina, White and Marie Daniels, medical assistant. White is leaving the health care clinic after 14 years as its leader.
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Clinic leader moving on after 14 years at ‘emotional job’
I Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
n the beginning, surely Nikki White had to think the biggest challenge with her new job as executive director of Lawrence’s Health Care Access would be how to not gain 20 pounds in the process. “My office was in the
kitchen, right next to the refrigerator,” White remembers of that first office 14 years ago in a cramped East Lawrence building. Soon enough, though, there would be other challenges. Like temperature
control. It was a warm August day in 2006 when staff members at the nonprofit health clinic for the uninsured started complaining that the air conditioner was blowing warm air. Please see DIRECTOR, page 2A
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Google Fiber attracting startups, creating nationwide buzz Besides serving homes in the region, Google Fiber is being installed free in Wyandotte County govIf you want to know why ernment buildings and public schools, ramping up Google Fiber is such a big hopes for more efficient online services for those deal, talk to Matthew Marcus. institutions and their stakeholders. By Rob Roberts
rroberts@theworldco.info
Marcus, the chief technology officer for Local Ruckus LLC, owns the home at 4454 State Line in Kansas City, Kan. In addition to housing the social media calendar company he and CEO Adam Ar-
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rendondo run, the home was the site of the first public installation of the new 1-gigabit Google Fiber service in the world’s first “fiberhood” — dubbed Hanover Heights,
was linked to the ultrafast Internet service. “But this one was the first one people watched,” Marcus said. “It was a zoo.” So Marcus decided to join the five or six television news crews in filming the historthough it also includes the ic occasion, which started adjacent Spring Valley neigh- with work outside the home. borhood. Then, wanting to share it Google Fiber had under- with the world as quickly as gone beta testing prior to last Please see GOOGLE, page 2A Nov. 13, when 4454 State Line
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Special section inside Inside today’s edition of the JournalWorld, look for a special edition, Wyandotte County Progress 2013, where you’ll find stories about development in Wyandotte County. We focus on Cerner’s move to the area and how that will affect both housing and retail in western Wyandotte County.
Piling up overtime Local government employees clocked more than $3 million in overtime wages last year, according to records. Page 3A
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