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Climate change believers, deniers could decide fate of 2009 utilities legislation By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

In 2009, supporters of a bill to require an increase in the use of renewable energy said the proposal would make Kansas the “Saudi Arabia� of wind energy. Four years later, the political wind is blowing toward repealing or changing the law. Since 2009, wind energy capacity in Kansas has jumped from about 1,000 megawatts to approximately 2,700 megawatts in 2013, with other projects in the planning stages, according to state figures. LEGISLATURE But conservative legislators, many affiliated with a national group that opposes mandated goals for renewable energy, plan to renew efforts from the 2013 legislative session to repeal the Kansas Renewable Portfolio Standard. Please see WIND, page 2A

A rendering of the “Forum,� an extension of Kansas University’s Marvin Hall currently under construction by the KU architecture school’s Studio 804 class.

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KU architecture building finally getting a lecture hall — designed by its students By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com

From a need to a concept to a groundbreaking, and through the Byzantine world of state building regulations, the Kansas University architecture school is getting closer to its first-ever lecture room and commons area. Dubbed the “Forum,� the extension to Marvin Hall, which houses the KU School of Architecture, Design and Planning, is now under construction. Doing the work is the school’s Studio 804 team, a special-

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Eudora home at center of Mexican cartel meth bust By Stephen Montemayor

ized architecture class that follows a project through the entire building process, from design to laying floorboards. Built in 1908, Marvin has been without a lecture hall through its entire lifetime, which has meant students had to go across campus for large core classes. Well aware of the need for a large seating space at the school, John Gaunt, KU dean of architecture, made some early drawings of what such an addition for Marvin might An interior rendering of the lecture room inside the “Forum,� an upcoming Please see BUILDING, page 2A extension of Kansas University’s Marvin Hall.

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They go by aliases like “Bombas� or “Bombs.� “Piratatita,� or “Little Pirate.� “Gordo� or “Fat.� One goes by “Primo� or “Cousin.� Another “Tio� or “Uncle.� They, along with 13 others, are now each considered to have been part of a $7 million methamphetamine conspiracy linked by law enforcement officials to Mexican drug cartels. And at least three of them allegedly used a rural Douglas County property to produce the illegal drug. Roosters still crow at the vacated rural Eudora property at 2174 N. 700 Road. Two blackand-white dogs also still roam freely, months Please see METH, page 6A

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