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Group: Rock Chalk project will increase flooding
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As the area around the Rock Chalk Park sports complex develops, a group of drainage leaders is predicting flooding along the Kansas River will become more frequent, unless the city changes future development regulations. Leaders of the Kaw Valley DrainNick Krug/Journal-World Photo age District perA LARGE PRINT OF KANSAS BASKETBALL GREAT WILT CHAMBERLAIN seems to steadily brace itself as Lawrence resident Dona Snead and suaded Douglas Overland Park printer Luke LeTourneau work to suspend and level the photograph Wednesday at Ingredient, 947 Massachusetts St. Dona County commisSnead and LeTourneau spent most of the day hanging photographs by her husband, Bill Snead, a former Journal-World, Washington Post sioners Wednesday and United Press International photographer, whose work will be displayed at Ingredient and the adjoining Five Bar for this weekend’s Final to support a study Fridays event on through December. The collection is a mixture of Snead’s work from his 50 years as a photojournalist, coupled with some of how developCOUNTY newer pieces. ment in northwest COMMISSION Lawrence will affect flooding along the Baldwin Creek tributary and portions of the Kansas River. At risk are thousands of acres of farmland and dozens of residences along the south banks of the Kansas River west of Lawrence, said By Giles Bruce Community Village LawCharles Taylor, president of the rence hopes to have its soft Douglas County Kaw Valley Drainlaunch by March with a free age District. service that checks on local Community Village Lawrence is group’s concept and recent A local effort to form a nonseniors who live alone with a Please see FLOODING, page 2A having an informational session to expansion and opportunities for profit to help local seniors livdaily phone call. Organizers introduce the organization to the getting involved. Complimentary ing at home has expanded to hope to be fully operational community from 9:30-10:30 a.m. coffee, bagels and doughnuts include all of Lawrence. later next year. Saturday in the Jayhawk Room in will be served. Community Village LawTo get there, they will need the Lawrence Fire-Medical Station For more information, contact rence, formerly known as Eastmore volunteers and funding. No. 5, 1911 Stewart Ave. (19th and Allison at 785-505-0188 or Amy at side Village Lawrence, will The group also is recruiting Iowa streets). 785-505-0187 or visit the group’s now serve the entire communiservice providers willing to ofTopics will include the website. ty, rather than just the east and fer their services at discounted north sides. The “village” conrates for members, and carecept uses a neighbors-helping- 2014. independent and in their home, fully vetting both volunteers neighbors approach to assist “Basically by the year 2030, surrounded by neighbors and and providers. older residents living at home. there are going to be three familiar surroundings.” Local residents who saw Residents pay a fee to use the times as many as many people Organizers originally planned how they and their peers could services of volunteers and dis- 65 and older as there are now,” to have the group start small as benefit from such a service in counted service providers for said Amy Hope, an Ameri- a sort of trial effort, but after de- Lawrence spearheaded the help with tasks such as transpor- Corps VISTA volunteer who mand from seniors from other concept, which originated as tation, plumbing and yard work. has been working on the lo- parts of Lawrence, they decided a grass-roots effort on the East Organizers hope to have cal “village” effort for nearly to expand. The expansion also Coast. Community Village Lawrence a year. “This is more or less a gives the organization a larger Please see SENIORS, page 2A By Ben Unglesbee up and running early in early way for people to still remain base of potential volunteers.
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Kan., Ariz. seek order on voter citizenship laws By John Hanna Associated Press
TOPEKA — Kansas and Arizona asked a court Wednesday to force a federal agency to quickly modify a national voter registration form so the states can fully enforce proofof-citizenship requirements for new voters ahead of next year’s elections. The two states filed a request in U.S. District Court in Kansas for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit they’re pursuing against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and its top staff member. The states asked for a hearing on or shortly after Nov. 12.
The states and their top elections officials filed the lawsuit in August in hopes of forcing the commission to modify the national mail-in Kobach voter registration form to include instructions for Kansas and Arizona residents to comply with their states’ laws requiring prospective voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship. The request filed Wednesday asks the court to impose the change while the lawsuit is being heard. Kansas and Arizona of-
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a Republican. “It’s not something we want at all.” The U.S. Department of Justice, which is defending the federal commission, said it is reviewing the states’ request to the court. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, is the architect of his state’s law and has said it blocks illegal voting by non-citizens, including immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Critics of the Kansas law contend that it will suppress voter turnout. The American Civil Liberties Union has notified Kobach that it intends to file its own federal lawsuit unless the state stops enforcing the proof-of-citizenship requirement.
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ficials said that without an immediate court order, the states will be forced to operate separate election systems — one for people who meet the proof-of-citizenship requirement and can vote for any office and another for people who use the federal form and therefore can vote only in presidential, U.S. Senate and congressional races. The two states argued in court documents that they would face “incalculable” extra costs while “being forced to register unqualified noncitizens.” “Quite honestly, it would be a mess,” said Matt Roberts, spokesman for Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett,
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Open access advocate Nick Shockey points out a fundamental irony in higher education: Once students have graduated and are expected by society to apply all the knowledge they’ve gained, they usually lose access to the scholarly research tied up in academic journals that they once had access to through their college libraries. That’s part of why he and his cohorts are working to unlock access for the wider world by making scholarly research free and widely distributed online. Shockey, currently director of student advocacy at the Washington, D.C.-based Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, is among the visitors at Kansas University this week to celebrate Open Access Week, a six-year-old event that advocates for broader access to academic research. KU joins 900 other institutions in Please see RECORDS, page 2A
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City commissioners have directed staff to look in to the feasibility of buying the 3,500 or so street lights it currently leases from Westar Energy. Page 3A
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