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Governor says litigation over funding is ‘dumb’; discussion needed
As nation marks 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, a local resident recalls serving as an altar boy at his funeral Mass
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Facing a possible court-ordered increase in public school funding, Gov. Sam Brownback has called for opening up the dialogue between legislators and school leaders. But a meeting Brownback has set up for next week at Cedar Crest, the governor’s home, features only Brownback Republican elected officials and school district representatives who are not among the plaintiffs in the school finance lawsuit before the Kansas Supreme Court, according to an invitation obtained Monday by the Lawrence JournalWorld. Speaking against school finance litigation, Brownback said, “This a dumb way of handling this. This is the wrong way to handle it.� A lower court panel has Please see SCHOOLS, page 2A
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REAUMER DONNALLY, OF LAWRENCE, holds a book by The Associated Press depicting the funeral Mass of President John F. Kennedy. Donnally indicates that he is the altar boy in the photo who is walking behind Cardinal Richard Cushing, who celebrated the Mass.
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KANSAS CITY, MO. — A Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded not guilty Monday to the 2009 shooting death of a Lawrence attorney who was driving home from a theater performance. Calah Johnson, 32, was arraigned in a Kansas City, Mo., courtroom, where he heard the charges being leveled against Calah Johnson is accused of shooting and killing Deanna Lieber in 2009 as she Please see PLEAD, page 2A drove home from Starlight Theatre.
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TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas group is gearing up to push again for expanding the state’s Medicaid program as encouraged by the federal health care overhaul, despite strong opposition from Republican legislators. About 30 advocates gathered Monday for a program sponsored by the Kansas Medicaid Access Coalition. The group began lobbying earlier this year to bring more people under Medicaid, which provides health coverage for
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Most people over a certain age can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they learned the news 50 years ago the President John F. Kennedy had been killed. But for Lawrence resident Reaumur Donnally, the most vivid memories are not of that day, but of the funeral Mass held three days later on Monday, Nov. 25, 1963. Thumbing through a book of photographs from the assassina- Area residents share tion, “The Torch is memories of the day Passed,� which was President Kennedy later published by was assassinated. The Associated Press, Donnally pointed to one picture taken outside the cathedral doors and said, “There I am.� In the foreground is Cardinal Richard Cushing, a Kennedy family friend from Boston who attended the requiem Mass that day. And directly behind the cardinal, Donnally said, is himself at age 12, one of
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the needy and disabled. Instead, the Republicandominated Legislature added provisions to budget legislation that now block the state from expanding Medicaid through June 2015. The federal health care law championed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat, encouraged states to broaden their programs by promising to pay most of the cost. The federal health care law offers subsidies to help individuals and families buy
private health insurance. But the assistance isn’t available for people whose households earn less than the federal poverty level, or $23,550 for a family of four, because the law anticipated that states would expand their Medicaid programs. Anna Lambertson, the coalition’s coordinator, said Monday’s program allowed advocates to share information and work on lobbying Please see MEDICAID, page 2A
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