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If state loses lawsuit, budget cuts, tax hikes will likely ensue, lawmakers warn By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

Republican legislators are sounding early alarm bells, saying a ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court against the state in the school finance lawsuit would result in significant budget cuts, tax increases or both. In a meeting last week with higher education officials, state Rep. Jerry Lunn, R-Overland Park, put Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little on notice, Lunn saying that KU and other universities should prepare for significant decreases in funding if the court orders legislators to increase funding to public schools. “You really do have a horse in this race,� Lunn said to Gray-Little. He suggested that Gray-Little “talk to your friendly Supreme Court justices.� Referring to the court,

Art stolen and sold for scrap

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By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

A bronze bust by artist Jim Brothers isn’t the only recent case of a sculpture being stolen from area galleries or

public locales. The person who took the Brothers piece — and his motives — remained unknown as of late last week. But the perpetrators in a few other thefts apparently were look-

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ing to cash in by turning the artworks into scrap metal. They had varying levels of success. About a year ago, a 10-foot-tall bronze by Jim Bass, a Topeka artist who

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also created “Prairie Formation� near Blake Hall on the Kansas University campus, was stolen from outside a Topeka church. Bass said he calculated Please see SCULPTURE, page 2A

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