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After soggy spring, state losing ground on drought

For most part, city’s summer road work on schedule

By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com

After a wet spring and a good wheat harvest, Douglas County farmer Kermit Kalb is looking to the sky again for rain. The problem is, there hasn’t been much. The weak thunderstorms that rolled through northeast Kansas over the weekend barely touched Kalb’s land, and he hasn’t seen any rain to speak of in weeks. More storms could be on the way this week, and Kalb is hoping they hit his part of the county. His corn needs it. The weather took a turn for the worse after the beginning of June, when Kalb’s fields in southeast Douglas County were too muddy to work, the grass was wet from a series of rainstorms, and a farmer could look forward to a solid wheat harvest. The April and May rains that softened the ground for Kansas farmers such as Kalb, who grows wheat, corn and soybeans on his land east of Baldwin City, trickled off in June. July has been dry, with only a fraction of normal rainfall in northeast Kansas, and

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A PEDESTRIAN MAKES HIS WAY through the intersection at Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive, where a road rebuilding and repaving project is underway. Wakarusa Drive is currently closed to traffic south of Bob Billings; that phase of the project should end Thursday and work will shift to the north side of the intersection.

Shifting construction zones keep drivers, pedestrians on toes longer. Here is a list of the current construction projects, Traffic cones and con- how they’re affecting trafstruction flags dot Law- fic and their status: rence roads, and detour signs are posted throughProject: Iowa Street reout the city, the evidence construction of a multitude of ongoing The Iowa Street reconroad and neighborhood stuction involves adding a construction projects this center turn lane to much of summer. Iowa Street, constructing Work on some projects a new roadbed and pavehas just begun but others ment, and raising the westhave been underway for ern side of the intersection months — and to some with Bob Billings Parkway drivers, it probably seems to be on the same grade as

By Meagan Thomas

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the eastern side of the intersection. Status: The project currently is in phase two, and the intersection of Iowa Street and Bob Billings/15th Street is closed. “We are finishing up the second phase,� City Engineer Dave Cronin said. “Probably on July 31st we will have the intersection at 15th and Iowa reopened.� The city will then move into the third phase of the project, which is reconstruction of Iowa Street.

Please see DROUGHT, page 2A

The work will take place just north of the intersection of Iowa and 15th streets, from Harvard Road to 15th Street. The scheduled completion date is Nov. 16. The city anticipates starting the third phase on Aug. 1, but everything south of the currently closed intersection is expected to be finished by then, reopening the critical 15th Street entrance to the Kansas University campus in time for the start of the

THIS MAP FROM THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR shows Kansas conditions as of July 16. The color code is white, no drought; yellow, exceptionally dry; tan, moderate drought; orange, severe drought; red, extreme drought; and brown, exceptional drought.

Please see ROAD, page 6A

Former attorney now leads life of crime novelist By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com

A police helicopter spotlight shone down on FBI agent Jack Davis as he surveyed the scene of a Kansas City, Kan., gang massacre, with other officers swirling around the scene. Kevin Anderson/Special to the Journal-World That’s the moment when JOEL GOLDMAN HAS a bachelor’s and law Davis’ body was struck by degree from KU. He left his career as an attor- uncontrollable spasms, leavney in the Kansas City area to become a full- ing him doubled over on the time crime novelist. ground.

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When he developed a movement disorder that caused him to experience involuntary shakes and spasms several times a day, he wasn’t literally under a spotlight. It only felt that way. But unlike his character Jack Davis, who stubbornly continues fighting crime against his doctor’s recommendations, Goldman turned away from the only career he’d ever imagined. Instead, he became a best-

selling crime author. “As crazy as it may sound, I look at this disorder as something that has opened new doors for me,� said Goldman, 60.

Success after success Goldman, who earned a KU bachelor’s degree in 1974 and a KU law degree in 1977, has released nine novels and one novella since 2002, all set in the Kansas City area, Please see NOVELIST, page 2A

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A person struck by a vehicle on the South Lawrence Trafficway west of Iowa Street died at the scene Sunday night. Page 3A

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