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Growing Flint Hills bison rounded up for first checkup
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Local delegation meets with Okla.-based Indians By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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KEITH YEAROUT, OF THE Z-BAR RANCH, inspects the teeth of a bison Monday at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City. The bison was being held in a steel chute during the procedure. Yearout, who is the ranch manager at Z-Bar, where he cares for a herd of bison, was on hand for the preserve’s first roundup for weighing, tagging and drawing blood from its herd of two dozen bison, pictured below. The herd has doubled since it was moved from South Dakota to Kansas in 2009.
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COTTONWOOD FALLS — As Flint Hills cowboy Gene Matile operates the high-tech squeeze chute and scale, one observation becomes obvious: 1,500 pounds on a bison sure looks a lot different than 1,500 pounds on a beef cow. “More intimidating, for some reason,” Matile says with a laugh. Of course, Matile already knew that. He was part of a group that traveled to Wind
MORE ONLINE See a photo gallery with this story at LJWorld.com. Cave National Park in South Dakota in 2009 to take possession of a herd of 13 bison to bring back to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Chase County. While at that South Dakota roundup, Matile was just a few feet away from a squeeze Please see BISON, page 6A
An Oklahoma-based Indian tribe wants to keep its options open for developing a casino somewhere in the Lawrence area, a delegation of local leaders was told by the tribe’s chief Tuesday. In a meeting with a group of city and county commissioners and administrators, the Delaware Tribe of Indians did not present any specific plans for a casino on an approximately 90-acre piece of property that it has purchased near the Kansas Turnpike interchange in CITY North Lawrence. But tribal lead- COMMISSION ers also said they hadn’t ruled out a casino development for the area. “The telling thing for me was that they are not taking the casino option off the table,” said City Commissioner Jeremy Farmer, who attended the meeting in Bartlesville, Okla., where the tribe is currently based. “That doesn’t mean sound the alarm, but I Please see CASINO, page 2A
Historian, author details evolution of privacy By Elliot Hughes ehughes@ljworld.com
Davis chooses Docking as running mate Democratic team says public education will be the cornerstone of their campaign By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Democratic candidate for governor Paul Davis on Tuesday named Wichita businesswoman Jill Docking to be his running mate in the campaign against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer. The selection sets up a rematch of sorts: Docking ran unsuccessfully against Brownback in 1996 for the U.S. Senate. And the presence of Docking on a statewide ballot in
2014 puts the famous Kansas political name again before voters. Docking is married to former Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, who served from 1983 to 1987. Tom Docking’s father, Robert, and grandfather, George, both served as governor in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Jill Docking, 57, a financial adviser, has served as chairwoman of the Kansas Board of Regents and writes a blog Scott Rothschild/Journal-World Photo about politics in which she SENATE MINORITY LEADER PAUL DAVIS, right, and Wichita businesshas criticized budget cuts to woman Jill Docking, left, speak Tuesday at Highland Park High education under Brownback. School in Topeka. Davis, D-Lawrence, who is running for governor, Please see DAVIS, page 2A announced Tuesday that Docking will be his running mate.
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The rise of social media and the recent revelations of government surveillance have created a bit of an odd time in American society, where the only thing more valued than privacy is publicity, historian Jill Lepore told an audience of up to 300 Tuesday night at the Kansas Union’s Woodruff Auditorium. Lepore, a professor of American history We have at Harvard University invaded our own and author of several books, mapped out privacy by bethe history of privacy coming our own to explain how society arrived at such a publicists.” paradoxical point. With a presentation — Historian and author that included excerpts Jill Lepore from centuries-old writing and clips from a cellphone commercial and movies, Lepore traced society’s transition between three fixations: mystery, secrecy and privacy. At the crux of her narrative is that the “forces that have continued to drive this transition have to do with the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge and the mechanization, secularization and democratization of publication.” She detailed how, centuries ago, religious institutions and governments ruled with an air of mystery. People did not know enough to explain natural phenomena, and they couldn’t explain why “kings were crowned by a mysterious hand of God.” That began to change with the emergence of published written materials, which helped demystify the powers that be.
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Blood test controversy State prosecutors have appealed a Douglas County judge’s dismissal of the results of a blood test in the case of an accident that cost a KU student his legs. Page 3A
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