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Would you favor a sales tax increase to provide more money for Lawrence teacher salaries?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes. | 80% | |
| No. | 18% | |
| Undecided. | 0% | |
| Other. | 0% | |
| Total | 5198 | |
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- Protest targets downtown
- Businesses spray-painted with antiwar graffiti
- March 31, 2003
- (Updated Tuesday at 3:50 p.m.) Someone spray-painted antiwar graffiti along the city’s main drag overnight.
- County officials preparing for high turnout in Tuesday’s election
- March 31, 2003
- (Web Posted Monday at 2:50 p.m.) Douglas County election officials are getting ready for what could be a heavier-than-normal turnout in Tuesday’s local election.
- Orangemen oust Sooners, 63-47
- March 31, 2003
- Syracuse’s Carmelo Anthony cut the down the net, then stuck strands underneath his brand-new white cap that showed the next stop for the Orangemen: New Orleans.
- Royals playing game ‘right way’
- March 31, 2003
- With 1999 still fresh in their minds, Kansas City fans know better than anyone how deceptive spring training records can be.
- Players Championship all Love
- Golfer records ‘incredible round’ to win by six strokes
- March 31, 2003
- The guys playing alongside and behind him called it one of the greatest rounds they had ever seen.
- Newman gets second career victory
- March 31, 2003
- Things finally went right for Ryan Newman. First, he caught a break when half the drivers on the lead lap made green-flag pit stops before a caution flag allowed Newman to make his stop without losing ground.
- Ways to put tax refund to work
- Using money to pay off credit cards tops list
- March 31, 2003
- Lucky enough to get a refund check from the IRS and not sure what to do with it? Here are five ideas for that or any other chunk of change you might have sitting in your checking account or stuffed under your mattress:
- On the money
- March 31, 2003
- Identity theft has become a popular and fast-growing form of financial fraud. Millions of dollars are lost each year when confidential financial information, such as Social Security numbers and credit-card accounts, is compromised.
- AMC aims high for new audience
- March 31, 2003
- American Movie Classics wants a younger, hipper audience. Time was, one associated AMC with its former host Bob Dorian and films like Ginger Rogers’ 1940 Oscar vehicle “Kitty Foyle.”
- ‘Head of State’ wins campaign for box office
- March 31, 2003
- Audiences gave their votes to Chris Rock and put his presidential farce “Head of State” in the lead with a weekend box office of $14 million.
- Suicide bombing in Israel called ‘gift’ to people of Iraq
- March 31, 2003
- A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday near the unguarded entrance to a crowded cafe in this seaside city, injuring more than 50 people.
- Parkinson’s drug shows promise
- March 31, 2003
- A preliminary trial to test the safety of a drug in people with Parkinson’s disease surprised scientists when all five patients showed measurable improvement.
- Mystery illness causes new worries in Hong Kong, Canada
- March 31, 2003
- Dozens more people at a Hong Kong apartment complex contracted a flu-like disease to bring the number there to 213, health officials said Monday, as the mystery illness with no known treatment continued its spread.
- Briefly
- March 31, 2003
- ¢ Afghanistan: Rockets fired into capital ¢ Michigan: Gunman ends feud at church ¢ Virginia: Airline out of bankruptcy
- M. Monteen Lucas
- March 31, 2003
- Placing blame
- March 31, 2003
- The U.S. military shouldn’t compromise its own safety and effectiveness in an effort to shield Iraqi civilians who Saddam Hussein has put in harm’s way.
- Infill ideas
- March 31, 2003
- Ignorant to facts
- March 31, 2003
- Hypocritical stand
- March 31, 2003
- Journalist says war plan failed
- NBC reporter’s interview may draw ire of war supporters
- March 31, 2003
- Journalist Peter Arnett, covering the war from Baghdad, told state-run Iraqi TV in an interview aired Sunday that the American-led coalition’s first war plan had failed because of Iraq’s resistance and said strategists are “trying to write another war plan.”
- Chain of command was divided
- March 31, 2003
- Saddam Hussein set up a system giving his most trusted lieutenants and local tribal leaders the power to mount a guerrilla campaign or other military measures without waiting for his orders.
- Prudery attack
- March 31, 2003
- Call for peace
- March 31, 2003
- Meldean Pearson
- March 31, 2003
- Free speech
- March 31, 2003
- Class lauded
- March 31, 2003
- Deserved raise
- March 31, 2003
- U.S. soldiers survive week lost in desert
- March 31, 2003
- They gave away much of their food to Iraqis. They drew “SOS” in the sand. One of them passed the time writing poems to his wife.
- New system slows down Wichita’s public safety
- March 31, 2003
- Wichita’s new public safety computer system should improve and speed up crime data management. But for now, it’s slowing things down.
- Rural Kansan nears 105
- March 31, 2003
- Opal Dickenson’s memories go way back. She remembers riding in a covered wagon with her parents, who lived in several different towns across the Kansas countryside.
- Habitat help
- March 31, 2003
- Wal-Mart increases Fortune 500 lead
- March 31, 2003
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. solidified its position atop the Fortune 500 rankings as the nation’s need for affordable staples boosted the retailer’s revenue in 2002.
- NYC suspect in shootings cites 9-11 motivation
- March 31, 2003
- A man who allegedly wanted to harm people of Middle Eastern descent because of his anger over the World Trade Center attack has been arrested in a string of New York workplace shootings that left four people dead.
- Angels open with thud — again
- March 31, 2003
- The ThunderStix and rally monkeys were out in force, and Game Seven winner John Lackey was on the mound.
- Spring Training Roundup: Franklin pitches Seattle past San Francisco, 3-1
- March 31, 2003
- Just hours before the regular season began Sunday, the Seattle Mariners and San Francisco Giants wrapped up the spring training schedule.
- On the record
- March 31, 2003
- People
- March 31, 2003
- ¢ Filmmaker hears drug stories ¢ Zora comes home ¢ Ringo takes ‘spiritual plane’
- Cutting debts
- Author offers rules to leading healthier financial lifestyle
- March 31, 2003
- Money troubles start young. Bankruptcies filed by people under age 25 soared almost 100 percent nationwide from 1991 to 1999.
- NBA Roundup: Mavs hammer Wolves
- Dallas hangs 119-95 defeat on flagging Minnesota
- March 31, 2003
- The Mavericks strengthened their hold on first place in the West, while the Timberwolves let another chance for home-court advantage slip away.
- Roundup: LSU topples La. Tech
- Connecticut, Purdue also advance to Elite Eight
- March 31, 2003
- Temeka Johnson and Sue Gunter could see just fine without their glasses — and their first trip to the Final Four is definitely in sight.
- Final Four on line
- Texas Tech, Duke to clash in regional final
- March 31, 2003
- Alana Beard has received all the attention for Duke this season. But Iciss Tillis and Mistie Bass helped the Blue Devils reach the Midwest Regional final.
- Lawrence city commission
- March 31, 2003
- Agenda highlights ¢ 6:35 p.m. Tuesday ¢ City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets ¢ Sunflower Broadband Channel 25.
- Season gets into full swing
- Sosa, Matsui, new ball park among story lines
- March 31, 2003
- Sammy Sosa takes a shot at history, Hideki Matsui makes his major league debut, and most fans get their first look at Great American Ball Park as baseball gets into full swing today.
- Federal budget facts feed class warfare
- March 31, 2003
- I am about to conduct class warfare — not because it’s my ideological preference but because the facts compel it.
- Versatile Marquette has eye on title
- March 31, 2003
- Marquette was marvelous, and the reward for the versatile Golden Eagles and energetic coach Tom Crean is what they believed was possible all season — a trip to the Final Four.
- On our side?
- March 31, 2003
- Shiite holy city of Najaf encircled
- March 31, 2003
- The U.S. Army encircled the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Sunday and said it killed about 100 paramilitary fighters and captured about 50 Iraqis.
- Shock and awe?
- March 31, 2003
- Kansas Public Radio moves to new, bigger building
- March 31, 2003
- Lawrence listeners probably haven’t noticed, but Kansas Public Radio is amid a whirlwind of changes.
- Lois Mae Rowe
- March 31, 2003
- Even enforcement
- March 31, 2003
- Suicide attacker’s family rewarded
- Islamic Jihad sends more bombers to Iraq
- March 31, 2003
- Iraq gave $34,000 to the family of an Iraqi army officer who killed four U.S. soldiers in a suicide attack, and the leader of the militant group Islamic Jihad said Sunday its volunteers had gone to Baghdad for similar bombing missions against the “American invasion.”
- Anti-abortion phone company puts profits on line
- March 31, 2003
- In a new twist on dialing for dollars, the Christian Coalition of America and several other pro-family lobbies are raising money by encouraging members to sign up with an anti-abortion phone company that gives its profits to the groups.
- KU earned national title against UA
- March 31, 2003
- They danced on the court, even stiff little Roy Williams scuffing leather across hardwood B-boy style.
- Graves makes waves
- Junior contributing after struggling last fall
- March 31, 2003
- Jeff Graves looked more like Santa Claus, Minnesota Fats and/or the Pillsbury Doughboy than a major-college basketball player in August when every other member of Kansas University’s basketball team lapped the 6-foot-9, 293-pounder in the Jayhawks’ back-to-school 12-minute run at Memorial Stadium.
- Notebook: Jayhawks savoring Final Four berth
- March 31, 2003
- The euphoria of reaching the Final Four for the second straight season hadn’t subsided Sunday in Lawrence.
- Board of Regents tries to keep nonconstruction costs down
- March 31, 2003
- Managers of $120 million in bond-financed building projects at three Kansas Board of Regents universities are determined to keep nonconstruction costs of the project below 15 percent, officials say.
- Field fire survivor was seeking better life
- March 31, 2003
- He’s the oldest of seven children from a dusty, destitute village in eastern Guatemala called Chiquimila, and the first in his family to learn how to read and write.
- Future still uncertain for some buildings near trade center site
- March 31, 2003
- Eighteen months after the World Trade Center was destroyed, several surrounding office buildings are still closed and the future of the largest remains uncertain.
- Local Briefs
- March 31, 2003
- ¢ KU names finalist for vice provost job ¢ Shawnee county: Whistleblower case headed for trial ¢ Lecture series: Women’s researcher to speak at KU forum
- Gasoline: Pump Patrol tracks down lowest prices in Lawrence
- March 31, 2003
- The Journal-World has found a Lawrence-area gasoline price as low as $1.50 at the Citgo at Ninth and Iowa streets.
- Wilma Jean Reynolds
- March 31, 2003
- Harvey R. Herrstrom
- March 31, 2003
- Courage contrast
- March 31, 2003
- Old home town - 40 and 100 years ago today
- March 31, 2003
- Elwell Lions’ top returner
- Firebirds boast ‘experienced group’
- March 31, 2003
- When Lawrence High’s boys tennis team opens its season in Tuesday’s dual at Emporia, most of the attention will be on LHS senior Scott Elwell.
- Horoscopes
- March 31, 2003
- Longhorns lasso last Final Four spot
- March 31, 2003
- As the final seconds ticked off, T.J. Ford dribbled to halfcourt, flashed the “Hook ‘em Horns” sign to a sea of burnt orange in the crowd and hugged his grinning coach.
- Jayhawks return to roost
- Thousands stay up to greet KU’s finest
- March 31, 2003
- They waived signs praising “Amazing Graves” and “Captain Kirk,” chanted the Rock Chalk, cheered and gave each other high fives for nearly three hours until their heroes arrived.
- March to Baghdad advances in cautious steps
- March 31, 2003
- Allied soldiers inched toward Baghdad on Sunday and pressed their campaign on a southern redoubt of Saddam Hussein loyalists, trying at every turn to gain trust from Iraqi citizens and stay safe from those who may be combatants in disguise.
- Alumnus: Wetlands are burial ground
- Former Haskell student signs affidavit stating he saw human remains
- March 31, 2003
- In what may be a first in the battle over the proposed route of a Lawrence bypass through wetlands on the city’s south side, a former Haskell Indian Nations University student has filed a sworn affidavit stating he twice found human remains in the wetlands.
- Videophones help bring latest scenes of war to TV sets
- March 31, 2003
- “Dad?” the voice questioned on the other end. “We’re going downtown, then over to Jenny’s.”
- Cowboys pound KU
- March 31, 2003
- It was one of those days. Just two batters into Kansas University’s 16-6 baseball loss Sunday against Oklahoma State, the Cowboys already were up 2-0 on a long home run by outfielder Jose Virgil.
- FSHS boys win Wichita invitational
- March 31, 2003
- Free State High’s boys track team opened its season by winning the Wichita Southeast Invitational Saturday, while the girls’ team finished second.
- Carey sparks ‘Horns in return to Stanford
- March 31, 2003
- How quickly Jamie Carey felt at home again in Maples Pavilion — even in a Texas uniform. The Stanford fans still cheered her name, and they still wore her number.
- Eudora Police chief retires
- Bill Long has seen many changes since taking charge in 1974
- March 31, 2003
- When Bill Long became a part-time Eudora Police officer in 1968, the department had just one full-time officer — the police chief.
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