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Why do you think fewer Douglas County tax bills are going unpaid?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Property owners are being more responsible. | 39% | |
| The economy is improving. | 34% | |
| Tax rates are staying where they should. | 13% | |
| No opinion. | 12% | |
| Total | 158 | |
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- 6News Now for August 16
- August 16, 2006
- In tonight’s 6News and tomorrow’s Journal-World, students return to school construction, residents in North Lawrence seek to create a quiet zone, and city sales tax proposals continue.
- Tax delinquency down from one year ago
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B3
- Douglas Countians seem to be doing a better job of paying their property taxes this year.
- Israel starts withdrawal from Lebanon
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Hundreds of Israeli soldiers walked out of Lebanon on Tuesday - some smiling broadly and pumping their fists, others weeping or carrying wounded comrades - as a cease-fire with Hezbollah solidified after a shaky start. The process was expected to accelerate over the coming days.
- The elderberry remedy
- Fruit gaining fame as health booster
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on D1
- More and more frequently, customers walk into the Community Mercantile and ask for elderberry concentrate.
- People in the news
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A2
- ¢ Curse of the Spanish ¢ Too hot to party ¢ Cash on delivery
- Lawrence datebook
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Hobbyists enjoy taking to the air, in miniature
- Museum shows radio- controlled aircraft
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B7
- One of the newest weapons of war is the remotely piloted vehicle - sometimes called an “unmanned drone.” These small aircraft can stay in the air for hours, sending back images to a controller miles away, either simply observing or waiting for the signal to unleash a missile.
- HIV-exposure cases dismissed
- Defense calls law ‘overly broad,’ unconstitutional; prosecutors plan to refile, consolidate four cases
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Trial for a Lawrence man charged with exposing multiple women to HIV has been put on hold because of a constitutional challenge to the law he’s charged with breaking.
- Online dating for orangutans planned
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Zookeepers in the Netherlands are planning to match Dutch and Indonesian orangutans over the Internet, believing that an online dating service could help determine whether lonely orangutans would be compatible mates.
- Scientists warn of fresh lava flows
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- The restive Mayon volcano showed fresh deposits of searing gas, rocks and ash as scientists warned Tuesday that more destructive lava flows likely would occur.
- Paramilitary leader is last to disarm
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- The last major paramilitary leader to enter into a peace deal with the government handed in his weapon Tuesday.
- Protesters refuse to move encampments
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged Tuesday to place conservative Felipe Calderon “under siege” if he is declared the winner of the disputed presidential elections.
- New Zealand’s indigenous Maori queen dies at 75
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, the queen of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population, died Tuesday, her family announced. She was 75.
- Kansas soldier killed
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- An Army staff sergeant from Overland Park, Kan., was reported Tuesday as one of the latest casualties in Iraq.
- Suicide car bomb, street battles kill 16 in Iraq
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A6
- A suicide bombing in the north and street battles hundreds of miles away in a Shiite holy city in the south claimed 16 lives Tuesday, demonstrating the tenuous security in Iraq as the U.S. focuses on curbing sectarian violence in Baghdad.
- Miss Montana wins Miss Teen USA 2006
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Katie Blair, an 18-year-old from Montana, was crowned Miss Teen USA 2006 on Tuesday night after besting the competition in swimsuit, evening gown and interview categories.
- Group sues city over anti-immigrant law
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Hispanic activists and the ACLU sued Hazleton on Tuesday over one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants by a U.S. city.
- Reagan assailant wants more free time
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A3
- John W. Hinckley Jr., who was committed to a mental hospital after trying to assassinate President Reagan, is asking a federal judge to let him spend more time with his family.
- Former President Ford in Mayo Clinic
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Former President Ford was admitted Tuesday to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for “testing and evaluation,” his office said in a statement.
- More evidence housing boom over: 28 states see sales decline
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A3
- The nation’s once-booming housing market slumped even further in the spring with sales declining in 28 states, led by big drops in the formerly red-hot areas of Arizona, Florida and California.
- Under astronomers’ proposal, Pluto to keep status as planet
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A3
- Hoping to end the agonizing over whether Pluto is really a planet, an international committee of astronomers has come up with a new definition that would save the tiny body’s place in the Sun’s family.
- Cardinals cruise past Reds
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C4
- Chris Carpenter pitched a four-hitter and Ronnie Belliard had three hits and two RBIs in his biggest game since joining the St. Louis Cardinals at the trade deadline, helping them stop a three-game skid with a 5-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night.
- Tigers top Sox; Pudge plays second
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C4
- The Detroit Tigers lost second baseman Placido Polanco to a shoulder injury that caused Ivan Rodriguez to play second base, then beat the Boston Red Sox, 3-2, Tuesday night on Craig Monroe’s ninth-inning pop single.
- Royals, Hernandez snap ugly losing streaks
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C5
- Runelvys Hernandez looked at his past for answers.
- Champion pair to draw ‘zoo’
- Tiger, Phil in spotlight
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C6
- The 10th tee is tucked away in a far corner of Medinah Country Club, where green mesh on a chain-linked fence separates the world’s best golfers from a steady stream of cars on Lake Street.
- Cowher, Steelers end extension talks
- Suggs fails physical, voiding Jets-Brown trade; Sproles out for season
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C8
- Bill Cowher is no longer negotiating a contract extension with the Steelers, making this the first time since he was hired in 1992 that he’ll start the season with only two years left on his deal to coach Pittsburgh.
- Picnic slated for Aug. 26
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University’s women’s basketball team will hold its annual welcome back picnic at noon Saturday, Aug. 26, at Centennial Park. There will be free games, food and prizes for fans with a program scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
- Parker at world meet
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C3
- Kansas University freshman pole vaulter Brittany Parker will compete in the IAAF World Junior Championships today in Beijing, China. The McKinney, Texas, native has a career-best jump of 13-5. If she qualifies, she will compete in the finals Friday.
- The gift of gab
- Talib not afraid to talk a good game
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Death. Taxes. Aqib Talib running his mouth on the football field. All three are money in the bank. You know - just know - they’re an inevitability before too much longer.
- Lisher enjoying wild summer ride
- Legion baseball success, football all-star games and college orientation add up to full plate
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C1
- Don’t ask Brett Lisher what he did this summer. Not unless you have nothing to do for the next hour or so.
- Butler dealt two more defeats in eligibility quest
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C1
- After back-to-back knockout blows, Eric Butler’s chances of playing football for Kansas University this season are all but dead.
- Keegan: KSU boss off to odd start
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C1
- With every injury to a defense thin on depth, the Kansas University football outlook grows a little hazier. Linebacker James Holt and safety Darrell Stuckey are sidelined. That hurts. Yet, the KU program remains on solid footing.
- ‘Jayni’s Kitchen’ cooks up exciting Cuban fare
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on D2
- Join “Jayni’s Kitchen” this week for “A Case for Cuban Cooking.”
- Cooking Connection: Wild rice and sausage casserole
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on D1
- California tomatoes fail to impress
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on D1
- For as much as I complain about the quality of the grocery store produce we get in Kansas, being closer to the source doesn’t necessarily improve the situation. This is the lesson I brought back from a two-week trip to California.
- ‘Laguna Beach’ a shallow place
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A2
- “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” (9 p.m., MTV) enters its third season tonight, promising more drama, intrigue and scenes of up-talking shopaholic teens using the word “random” inappropriately.
- 50 years ago, Elvis shook up television
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A2
- Fifty years ago, as Elvis Presley was about to make his first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Helen Kreis was staring at the TV screen, barely able to contain her teenage excitement.
- AOL to dig for gold to satisfy spam judgment
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A5
- AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.
- Heroin ring offering home delivery busted
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A5
- A coast-to-coast drug ring that offered scaled services - including phone-up home delivery of Mexican black tar heroin - was targeted Tuesday by federal agents who arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers.
- NASA launches effort to find Apollo videos
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A5
- Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing, NASA said Tuesday it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions.
- Wildfire threatens Wyoming homes
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A8
- Hot, windy conditions threatened to cause more problems Tuesday for firefighters struggling to contain a wildfire bearing down on hundreds of evacuated homes.
- New York City to release more 9-11 emergency calls
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A8
- The city plans today to release hours of emergency calls from Sept. 11, 2001, after Fire Department officials said they had discovered hundreds of internal recordings made by firefighters who went to rescue people from the burning twin towers.
- Injured cyclist treated, released from hospital
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- A bicyclist injured Sunday at 19th and Tennessee streets has been treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and released.
- Businessman may have diversion revoked
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- A local businessman who received diversion after being charged with threatening to shoot a sheriff’s deputy has not held up his end of the diversion agreement, prosecutors allege.
- Judge schedules trial for accused rapist
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- A judge ordered trial Monday for a Douglas County man charged with raping a woman while he was out of jail on bond on a previous rape case involving a different woman.
- Plea hearing scheduled for marijuana suspect
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- A plea is in the works in the case of a man charged with growing a home full of marijuana in a west Lawrence neighborhood.
- Health department confirms more crypto
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department officials Tuesday confirmed two more cases of cryptosporidium, bringing the total number of cases to five.
- Back-to-school pool party set for today
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Junior high school students can swim at a back-to-school pool party from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center, 727 Ky.
- On the record
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B2
- Daily ticker
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- New shop offers scooters, cars
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Fineline Cars and Bikes recently opened at 1001 N. Third St. in North Lawrence, selling scooters, all-terrain vehicles, dune buggies, jet boats, used motorcycles and cars.
- Career Institute launches programs
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Pinnacle Career Institute has added two education programs.
- Chiropractor adds wellness coordinator
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Amy Edmonds has joined The Chiropractic Experience: A Creating Wellness Center as wellness coordinator.
- Commodities
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Costs dwindling for computer backup drives
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- With the cost of data storage dropping, there’s really no reason not to back up your computer. One effective but underused option is a peripheral known as an external hard drive. High in capacity and convenience, this device allows you to easily copy new content immediately.
- ‘Nightmare for Sony:’ Manufacturing flaws cited in Dell’s battery recall
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B8
- Dell Inc.’s record-setting recall of 4.1 million notebook computer batteries raised safety concerns about the power source of countless electronic devices, but experts said the problem appeared to stem from flaws in the production of the laptop batteries, not the underlying technology.
- Scattered showers provide little relief
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B12
- Scattered showers failed to raise soil moisture levels significantly and provided Kansas farmers and livestock producers little relief from the state’s hot weather over the past week, the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported.
- New Sebelius ad grabs credit for increase in school funding
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B9
- With two campaign ads already on television, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius began airing a third Tuesday, claiming credit for large increases in state aid to public schools.
- Kline makes donation to Patriot Guard
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B9
- Atty. Gen. Phill Kline has donated $500 to the Kansas Patriot Guard after the campaign of his opponent Paul Morrison criticized Kline for taking a $500 contribution in 2002 from a member of Fred Phelps’ family.
- H&R Block loans draw opposition
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B7
- Managers of three state pension funds with holdings in H&R Block Inc. urged the financial company Tuesday to reform its practice of giving high-interest loans in anticipation of federal tax refunds.
- Douglas County foundation chooses leader
- August 16, 2006
- The Douglas County Community Foundation has tapped a veteran of Lawrence’s social services scene to serve as its executive director.
- Panel: More children need health coverage
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B4
- A panel charged with overhauling the state’s approach to better health agreed Tuesday to urge Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to insure more children in low-income families, make routine dental care available to the poor and fight childhood obesity.
- Fulbright recipients to teach abroad
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Three Kansas University faculty members have received Fulbright senior scholar awards for the new academic year.
- KU offers job fair today for students
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Kansas University’s Student Employment Services will offer a student employment job fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the fourth-floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
- Headquarters plans volunteer training
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Headquarters Counseling Center in Lawrence seeks volunteers for its fall training program.
- Family shocked by transient’s death in train collision
- Sisters wonder whether medication slowed reflexes
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Both in life and in death, Jeannie NewMoon was an enigma.
- Train ‘quiet zone’ to be considered
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- State and city leaders will meet with North Lawrence residents today to discuss possible regulations that would allow trains to travel through the neighborhood without blowing their horns.
- Lawrence district starts school year
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Today is the first day of school for Lawrence students in first through sixth grades, and seventh graders and 10th graders will attend for half a day.
- Patrol seeks fuel deals
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.83 at several locations.
- First meeting on lake-development study leaves some disappointed
- ‘I thought we had more to offer’
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- Banker Jason Pickerell, of Valley Falls, said the idea that Perry Lake could support 24 more homes, three second homes and a 35-room spa resort was a little disappointing.
- Senator wants to block assisted suicide
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B1
- A Kansas senator wants to block Oregon’s landmark law allowing doctor-assisted suicide.
- ACT scores climb as exam gains favor
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A1
- The high school class of 2006 posted the biggest score increase on the ACT college entrance exam in 20 years and recorded the highest scores of any class since 1991.
- Candidates speak same language on one issue: making English official
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A1
- State Sen. Jim Barnett, the Republican candidate for governor, wants to make English the official language of Kansas. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat seeking re-election, said she supports that, too.
- U.S. 59 price tag climbs
- Douglas County leg of freeway project jumps $35 million
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A1
- The price tag for building the new U.S. Highway 59 freeway through Douglas County is climbing, thanks primarily to increased fuel and construction costs, a representative of the Kansas Department of Transportation said.
- K-State fans taking bad news in stride
- Defections, dismissals have taken toll on football, men’s and women’s basketball programs
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C2
- Some Kansas State fans in the Aggieville business district near campus said Tuesday the dismissal of center Tyler Hughes from the Wildcat basketball team seems to be par for the course in a year when the athletic department has seen tremendous turnover.
- U.S. squad set for worlds after rout
- James scores 23 to lead 116-63 romp over South Korea
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on C2
- A 53-point win over South Korea wrapped up a perfect Asian exhibition tour for a star-studded U.S. team on its way to the world championships.
- TSA stands by X-rays of shoes
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A7
- The government sought to assure airline travelers Tuesday that X-raying shoes at security checkpoints was a reliable way of detecting improvised bombs, a claim contradicted by a Department of Homeland Security study.
- British police make new arrest in jetliner plot
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on A7
- Police detained a new suspect Tuesday in the alleged plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic, the first arrest since authorities detained two dozen people last week and threw Britain’s airports into turmoil by imposing tougher security.
- Shopping, office proposal in west Lawrence narrowly OK’d
- August 16, 2006
- A long-vacant lot at Wakarusa Drive and Clinton Parkway now is set to become a small-scale shopping and office complex.
- Use of artificial sweeteners poses varying health risks
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on D3
- The five artificial sweeteners are aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame-K, neotame and sucralose. Each has been approved as safe by the FDA. The FDA evaluates the composition and properties, how much would be consumed and the safety of the ingredient. The typical amount consumed is well within the “acceptable daily intake levels” that a person would safely eat each day over a lifetime.
- Refining No Child Left Behind
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B11
- The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 sent an enormously important message to politicians and educators across America: Stop making excuses for low student achievement and start holding your schools accountable for results.
- Don’t play the blame game
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B11
- The nonrenewal of the National Science Foundation grant to the Kansas University Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis is a disappointment, but it is not a catastrophe. The scientists and engineers whose work attracted the grant in the first place remain at KU. The research they have done and continue to do remains outstanding. Industrial partners - more than a dozen - have affiliated themselves with the center. New faculty and graduate students have come to KU to work at the center. Those are all signs of success.
- Old home town - 100 years ago today
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Aug. 16, 1906: “Douglas County, in proportion to its area, is one of the foremost wheat producers in the state. The county’s average yield this year was a trifle over 22 bushels per acre while the state average was only 14.7 in what is termed an excellent year.
- Old home town - 40 years ago today
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- Odd Williams of Lawrence and McDill Boyd of Phillipsburg were the top two candidates for the national Republican committeeman post recently vacated because of the death of Sam Mellinger of Emporia.
- Old home town - 25 years ago today
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- Strong word
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- To the editor: I am uncomfortable writing this in this pre-election, politically charged environment, but my conscience compels me to do so.
- Criminal war
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- To the editor: In addition to Bush and company’s incompetence in declaring war on an innocent country (no WMDs in Iraq, no 9-11 hijackers linked to Iraq, remember?), we now know from a report Aug. 11 on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” that in February 2005, a government accountability office report determined that the Transportation Security Administration had “delayed the development of a device to detect weapons, liquid explosives - in containers found in carry-on baggage or passenger’s effects.”
- Driving dangers
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- To the editor: When area police hit the road Aug. 17 to Sept. 4 to cut down on drunken driving in Lawrence, I suggest they also be on the lookout for drivers chatting on their cell phones.
- ‘Good guys’ must fight to win in Mideast
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- Fighting to obtain a cease-fire is not likely to encourage Israeli soldiers who have given their lives and limbs to defeat a mortal enemy. And turning to the United Nations and its anti-Israel secretary general to monitor the cease-fire is not exactly a confidence builder, given the U.N.’s record in the region.
- Maximum tax
- If the Lawrence school board is going to max out the district’s budget authority, it needs to fully justify that move to local taxpayers.
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on B10
- As much as Lawrence supports its public schools, a school district budget that raises local property taxes by 6.437 mills may be giving some local residents pause.
- Horoscopes
- August 16, 2006 in print edition on D5
- For Wednesday, Aug. 16
- Runner takes shot at Junior Olympics
- August 16, 2006
- One of the first comments Tony Weiss said to his mother Laura after he finished his 1500-meter run wasn’t about time or his stamina. It was about something else. “Mom, did you see that guy next to me? He had a goatee!”
- Phenix now a familiar name in Utah
- August 16, 2006
- When Bill Finucane’s U14 Lawrence Phenix arrived in Park City, Utah, for the Triple Crown World Series in it didn’t take long to realize the kind of competition they were up against.
- New York trip part of wrestlers commitment
- August 16, 2006
- It’s a long way from Lawrence to New York State. But for a group of Sunflower wrestlers, the stop in the northeast is just that-a stop.
- Houk league Rattlers take home the title
- August 16, 2006
- If there ever was an underdog team in the 2006 little league baseball season in Lawrence, it just may have been the Houk League Rattlers.
- Phenix offer opportunities for next year
- August 16, 2006
- While some girls were trying to rejoin their Phenix club, some were going through the tryout process for the first time. Most of these first timers were at the 10U tryouts as the Lawrence Phenix organization held tryouts for its 10U, 12U and 14U teams Saturday at Haskell University softball field.
- Lawrence shortstop heads west, finds success
- August 16, 2006
- This spring, Driskell Johnson faced one of the hardest decisions he’s had to make in his young baseball career.
- Premier camp fine tunes skills
- August 16, 2006
- Mauro Nobre knows what it takes to get the best out of his players. Over the last seven years the Kaw Valley Soccer Premier coach has focused on strength, stamina and power in an effort to get his players in top form going into the fall season.
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