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AT&T investing millions to improve mobile network Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
Life in the digital world could get easier for anyone who has been caught in the logjam of mobile users while trying to post pictures from Allen Fieldhouse, Memorial Stadium, or
Changes to enable faster uploads and downloads on KU campus just about anywhere else on the Kansas University campus. A contract between KU and AT&T will allow the company to build a network of small antenna systems across campus, making
it easier to upload and download data to cellphones. Eventually the network will be opened to other wireless carriers and could improve coverage campuswide for most mobile users.
Jeff Perry, deputy technol- space, much of that inside of ogy officer for KU Information thick stone walls that are hard Technology, said the goal of the for radio signals to penetrate. system is to cover 95 percent of Perry expects the new anKU’s campus, which includes Please see MOBILE, page 2A 9 million square feet of indoor
‘What a precious gift citizenship is’
City supports shelter loan but wants more study on the terms By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
City commissioners voiced support Tuesday for a $725,000 loan for the Lawrence Community Shelter, after leaders with the homeless shelter expressed concern about the financial bind the organization would find itself in without the money. “Truthfully, if you turn this down, I’m not sure what we will do,� Joe Baker, the treasurer for the shelter’s nonprofit board, told commissioners. The shelter City agrees to raised a little shut down part of more than $3 milMassachusetts lion in pledges Street for movie to purchase and showing. Page 2A renovate a vacant warehouse near the Douglas County Jail in eastern Lawrence for use as a homeless shelter. But shelter officials told city commissioners at their weekly meeting that costs to renovate the structure ran about $600,000 higher than was originally estimated. That left the shelter with an approximately $625,000 short-term loan with a local bank. The loan comes due later this year. The shelter also has about $100,000 worth
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LEONARDO POLO, ORIGINALLY OF COLOMBIA and now a Kansas City-area resident, takes the oath of American citizenship during a naturalization ceremony Tuesday morning at the Dole Institute of Politics.
102 new Americans take the oath By Nico Roesler nroesler@theworldco.info
Right hands raised, 102 people from 40 countries stood and recited the oath to become American citizens Tuesday morning at the Dole Institute of Politics. Standing tall in the crowd wearing a radiant gold dress was Ayak Mawin, of South Sudan, who immigrated to
the United States 15 years ago. This ceremony was the realization of a dream for Mawin, who had applied twice before for citizenship. “It’s just amazing,� Mawin said. “I’m finally a citizen, and I am able to travel and do so many other things.� Mawin, 38, who now lives in Olathe, has not traveled home to South Sudan Please see CITIZENS, page 2A Ayak Mawin, originally of South Sudan
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Lawrence’s Davis makes it official; he’s running for governor By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, on Tuesday officially launched his campaign for governor, setting up a likely underdog race against Re-
publican Gov. Sam Brownback. Without mentioning Brownback, Davis vowed to build a moderate coalition to work on the state’s problems. “Like so many of you, I’m very troubled by the direction our state’s been heading
Brownback, while property taxes, tuition and utility bills have increased. “The wealthiest and wellconnected get all the breaks and our Kansas economy feels broken,� Davis said. “Topeka gets bogged down in party labels and par-
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tisan agendas while the rest of us just want them to get things done,� he said. Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kelly Arnold said Brownback has a solid “pro growth� record to run on. Please see DAVIS, page 2A Davis
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