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Polls
Now that Kansas University's men's basketball team is out of the NCAA Tournament, will you turn your attention toward the women's team's quest for the WNIT championship?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 70% | |
| Yes | 17% | |
| I wasn’t paying attention to the men’s team before | 6% | |
| My attention was always on the women’s team | 5% | |
| Total | 1622 | |
Will you participate in a benefit walk or run this spring?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No. | 62% | |
| Yes. | 37% | |
| Total | 70 | |
What grade would you give lunches at Lawrence's public schools?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| D. | 30% | |
| C. | 25% | |
| F. | 20% | |
| B. | 17% | |
| A. | 4% | |
| Total | 62 | |
Have you ever been diagnosed with cancer?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No. | 67% | |
| Yes. | 32% | |
| Total | 58 | |
Videos
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- Tonganoxie’s mayor was in critical condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital …
- The Lawrence school board president says it’s unlikely board members …
- The top six plays of the past week.
- A plan to relocate a homeless shelter to a vacant …
- Kansas University is still playing basketball, but its the women …
- The victim of a massive upset over the weekend, the …
- The Eudora schools football complex cleared its final hurdle at …
- Kidcaster Samantha Guengerich provides Monday night’s weather info.
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Lead stories
12:00 a.m.
A walk to remember: Century anniversary recalls American folk hero’s historic march through Lawrence- March 21, 2010 in print edition on 1D
- Lawrence was anticipating his arrival for days. The town was electrified. Naturally, the visitor would be coming on foot, easily recognizable by his dapper dress, wooden staff and quick pace…
6:00 a.m.
Repair work to shore up Bowersock Dam winds down- March 22, 2010 in print edition on 1A
- Thirty feet of gravel, concrete, steel — and, oh yeah, about $2.2 million — can buy a city a lot of peace of mind when it comes to a 124-year-old dam.
10:00 a.m.
County’s Special Olympians earn medals at state tournament - March 21, 2010 in print edition on 5C
- While the Kansas University men’s basketball team ended Saturday with a devastating loss, dozens of other area hoopsters returned to Lawrence as winners.
2:00 p.m.
Rec center plans begin to take shape - March 22, 2010 in print edition on 3A
- By early April, Lawrence Parks and Recreation leaders hope to start a new push to win support for a west-side recreation center, and perhaps a larger wellness center and fieldhouse.
6:00 p.m.
Pop culture: Lawrence experts say cut kids off caffeine altogether- March 22, 2010
- If Dr. Stephen Lauer has seen it once, he’s seen it one time too many. And he’s seen it many, many times. Glancing into his clinic waiting room, the pediatrician spies a child young enough to be aged in months and weighed down by a full diaper, sipping an adult-sized bottle of soda pop.
All stories
- Eudora City Council OKs new athletic facility
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A4
- A new athletic facility on the Eudora High School campus cleared its final hurdle Monday night when the Eudora City Council unanimously approved the use permit for the Eudora school district.
- Eudora City Council decision expected soon
- March 22, 2010
- The deadline for applications required to fill the vacant Eudora City Council seat has come and gone. As of Monday night’s deadline, four people have expressed interest in the position.
- KU releases dates for Spring football practices
- March 22, 2010
- The Kansas University athletic department released the dates for this year’s Spring football practices.
- School board president wants to stick by plan not to close schools for next year
- Legislature may short district another $1.68M
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Lawrence school board president says it’s unlikely board members will reopen talks of closing schools if the district has to consider deeper budget cuts for next school year.
- ACORN disbanding because of money woes, scandal
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues — six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.
- County Commission to consider waiving requirement for church to build turn lanes on Highway 40, west of Lawrence
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- New turn lanes on U.S. Highway 40 west of the South Lawrence Trafficway would just have to wait under a proposal up for consideration Wednesday by Douglas County commissioners.
- Brownback, Holland differ on increased federal Medicaid match
- 03:23 p.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on A5
- The bill in question contains an extension of unemployment benefits, plus continued extra funding to help states pay for Medicaid.
- Brett Ballard officially named new basketball coach at Baker
- 01:51 p.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m. in print edition on B1
- New Baker University basketball coach Brett Ballard believes it’s possible to be a Wildcat and a Jayhawk at the same time.
- Proposal to block federal health reform fails in House
- 01:12 p.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 10:20 a.m.
- The debate in the Kansas House repeated many of the arguments heard over the past year.
- Tonganoxie mayor in critical condition following possible suicide attempt
- Mike Vestal is now in the hospital
- 11:45 a.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 10:50 p.m. in print edition on A3
- Tonganoxie’s mayor was in critical condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Monday afternoon following a possible suicide attempt.
- KU chooses former Texas A&M leader for provost position
- Professor, former administrator Jeffrey Vitter to start July 1
- 11:21 a.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 02:48 p.m. in print edition on A3
- Kansas University’s new provost is a former Texas A&M administrator who has served in a number of leadership roles at public and private institutions.
- Derby woman will challenge Brownback in GOP gubernatorial primary
- 08:30 a.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 10:13 a.m.
- The certainty Republican Joan Heffington brings to her campaign for governor is encapsulated in a single sentence borrowed from the Bible.
- Brownback urges Kansas Legislature to advance amendment seeking to block federal health care reform
- 08:30 a.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 09:13 a.m.
- The day after Congress passed sweeping health care legislation, the Kansas House is scheduled to debate House Concurrent Resolution 5032, which is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would prohibit the federal government from requiring that Kansans purchase health insurance.pondering a response.
- Sebelius tells TV audience Americans will embrace health care reform bill as they learn more about it
- March 22, 2010
- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she believes people who remain skeptical about the massive health care reform that has passed Congress will feel better as they learn more about it.
- Legislators expected to have busy week as key deadline looms
- March 22, 2010
- A busy week is in store for Kansas legislators as they approach a key point in the 2010 session.
- House backs bill to narrow abortion law
- 08:23 a.m., March 22, 2010 Updated 10:49 p.m. in print edition on A3
- The Kansas House has advanced a bill that would bar late-term abortions for mental health or emotional reasons.
- Repair work to shore up Bowersock Dam winds down
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A1
- Thirty feet of gravel, concrete, steel — and, oh yeah, about $2.2 million — can buy a city a lot of peace of mind when it comes to a 124-year-old dam.
- Witness: Jackson doctor stopped resuscitation to gather drug vials
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Michael Jackson’s doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer’s chaotic final moments.
- 100 years ago: Plans for Mass St. temple moving forward
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A7
- From the Lawrence Daily World for March 22, 1910: “The Masonic Temple building committee has definitely decided on plans for a new temple to be built along the architectural lines of the ancient Egyptian Temple ‘Elephantine’ and will be arranged to provide for every convenience for the Masons in all bodies and rites.
- Despite sour grapes in Topeka, local wineries stomp ahead
- March 22, 2010
- It’s spring in Kansas, pruning time in the vineyards. That seems an incongruous statement in the land of amber waves of grain, but time was when Kansas and the Midwest dominated American winemaking. If Kansas wineries have their way, that time will come again.
- Livin’ on a prayer
- March 22, 2010
- I think I have finally found a replacement for Paul Newman, who, with his passing, left an opening on my “list.” (To those who do not know of the “list,” please refer to the TV show “Friends.”)
- U.S. must detail two-state Mideast strategy
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A7
- President Obama is angry at Israel for announcing new building plans in a disputed area of Jerusalem — while Vice President Biden was visiting.
- That’s one giant leap for former astronaut
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A9
- From “One Small Step” to the cha cha step, astronaut Buzz Aldrin has become the Sylvia Miles of the Apollo program.
- Air travelers to see tougher security, longer wait in lines
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- For those who haven’t flown in a while, be prepared to be scanned, swabbed or thoroughly patted down. Maybe all three.
- Woods addresses scandal, Masters
- Golfer answers questions for first time since car crash
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B2
- Tiger Woods acknowledged “living a lie,” saying he alone was responsible for the sex scandal that caused his shocking downfall from global sporting icon to late-night TV punchline.
- KU tennis falls, 7-0
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B3
- Kansas University sophomores Erin Wilbert and Ekaterina Morozova won at the No. 1 doubles position, but Kansas University’s tennis team fell to Texas, 7-0, Sunday.
- Next year, title possible
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Nobody took the premature Kansas University exit from the NCAA Tournament harder than Marcus Morris, who was balled up on the corner of the Ford Center floor, bawling so hard he was shaking.
- Kansas football RB Bourbon fast, elusive
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Though he was careful to point out that the comparison was made in a relative sense, Potosi High football coach Mark Casey delivered mighty high praise for running back Brandon Bourbon, a four-star senior signee from Potosi, Mo., who will join the Kansas University football team this summer.
- KU’s loss Baker’s gain
- BU’s new coach Ballard ‘all about the Jayhawks’
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B1
- Brett Ballard, who has been involved with Kansas University’s basketball program as a player and staff member the last 10 years, today takes his expertise over to neighboring Baker University.
- Social animals: Social media has gone to the dogs. And the cats. And the ferrets. And the …
- March 22, 2010
- As with anything Internet-related, social media has a teeming underbelly of primitive behavior. That includes by actual animals…
- Choir education: ‘Encore’ show melds choir, pop music at Free State
- March 22, 2010
- You would think that those involved in a high school musical production, especially one devoted to choral arrangements of pop songs, would really like “Glee.” Nope…
- Pop culture: Lawrence experts say cut kids off caffeine altogether
- March 22, 2010
- If Dr. Stephen Lauer has seen it once, he’s seen it one time too many. And he’s seen it many, many times. Glancing into his clinic waiting room, the pediatrician spies a child young enough to be aged in months and weighed down by a full diaper, sipping an adult-sized bottle of soda pop.
- Dogged determination: Community fitness helps mom lose weight
- March 22, 2010
- “I didn’t starting running until I was 44 when I couldn’t run 100 yards without becoming breathless,” says Ellen Young, representative at Mike Grosdidier’s State Farm insurance office.
- Save that date: Couples become more creative with wedding day reminders
- March 22, 2010
- “Jeff and Erin’s Epic Wedding Trailer” is a YouTube sensation. In it, the bride and groom-to-be, Erin Martin and Jeff Wong of Sidney, Australia, star in a jaw-dropping, four-minute “movie trailer” that tells the story of how they met, illustrates the journeys (literal, not figurative) they’ve taken together, recreates Jeff’s bended-knee proposal, and ends in blockbuster style by announcing the date of their impending nuptials.
- Lawrence elementary school lunches
- March 22, 2010
- Wills important part of family planning
- March 22, 2010
- You’re going to die. Maybe not today, and probably not tomorrow, but some day you will die. You’ll leave everything you own behind: the house, the car, the book collection, the fine china, the sparkling jewelry. All of it will linger long after you’re gone. And that’s why you should consider drafting a will.
- Anyone can master the art of soldering copper
- March 22, 2010
- With the advent of Pex tubing and “Shark Bite”-type fittings, soldering copper tubing is becoming a lost art. With a little patience and a lot of practice, you still have time to master this art form.
- Forget cutesy stuff: Baby denim is tiny but trendy
- March 22, 2010
- Denim is easy, denim is durable — and that makes denim a potentially sensible and stylish choice for some of the toughest customers around: babies and toddlers.
- Pop some color and cute nail polish for spring
- March 22, 2010
- Hello, chirping birds. Hello iced-coffee. Hello, boys playing Frisbee on the lawn … Smile, it’s springtime. So please, please peel off your all-black outfit and let some color show!
- Library needs
- The Lawrence Public Library is an important community service, but it’s a difficult time consider funding a major expansion project.
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A7
- The need and desire to expand the Lawrence Public Library hasn’t gone away. Unfortunately, the city probably is even less able to fund such a project now than it was when it was last discussed several years ago.
- Education not a civil rights problem
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A7
- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Speaking in Alabama at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 45th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march, Duncan vowed to unleash on public schools legions of lawyers wielding Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They supposedly will rectify what he considers civil rights violations, such as too many white students in high school advanced placement classes.
- Royals struggle defensively in tie
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B3
- A year after they led the AL in errors, the Kansas City Royals have been making defense a focus in spring training.
- Snowmobiles, ATVs, lobster boats used to count nation’s population
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation’s populace.
- Flood fears recede as river crests
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B10
- The good news was all about things that didn’t happen: No floodwaters pushing aside hastily built sandbag walls, no neighborhoods evacuated, no panicked residents wondering whether they’d ever see their homes again.
- Thousands rally for immigration reform
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Frustrated with the lack of action to overhaul the country’s immigration system, tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied on the National Mall and marched through the streets of the capital Sunday, waving American flags and holding homemade signs in English and Spanish.
- U.S.-Russian nuclear deal nearly completed
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on B10
- Nearly a year after President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered negotiators to work on a new treaty to reduce their nuclear arsenals, the two countries say they are finally close to completing a deal.
- Abortion compromise doesn’t satisfy critics
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A10
- A last-minute compromise that swung a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats behind President Barack Obama’s health care bill — virtually ensuring its passage — failed to placate outside activists on either side of the issue, and drew derision from Republicans.
- Obama works for passage on final day
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A10
- Capping a long day and a consuming political journey, President Barack Obama celebrated the passage of health care legislation on Sunday with hugs, high fives and an emboldened attitude. Said the president to the nation, “Tonight, we answered the call of history.”
- ‘Alice’ still reigns with $34.5 million
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A9
- Alice remains the queen of the box office.
- L.A. band tries to cash in with free monthly album
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A9
- In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living.
- Horoscope for March 22, 2010
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A9
- This year, some unanticipated changes could blow through your life. If the status quo isn’t working, you might discover that events will force your hand. If you are single, you might be more than ready to settle down. If you are attached, respect each other’s differences. Someone born under the sign Cancer can drag you down.
- Planning begins for Relay for Life
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A5
- Cancer. It’s an ugly disease that affects so many people.
- Democrats’ state power unprecedented
- 5 of 6 statewide offices held by minority party
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A5
- An unusual combination of circumstances has put Democrats in five of six statewide offices in Kansas, a new political pinnacle for them in a Republican-leaning state.
- Art Guild needs gallery assistance
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A4
- The Lawrence Art Guild Association needs volunteers to staff its 1109 Gallery.
- State leaders to debate budget cuts; other news from the Kansas Statehouse
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Both the House and Senate this week are planning to debate proposed budgets for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
- Pump patrol
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- The Journal-World found gas prices as low as $2.65 at several stations.
- Women’s agency changes its name
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- To better reflect its mission of helping the victims of family and domestic violence, Women’s Transitional Care Services has changed its name to Willow Domestic Violence Center.
- Parks & Rec sponsorships offered
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- Area businesses soon will have the chance to hang their names in some of the city’s busier parks.
- Rec center plans begin to take shape
- Renderings of proposed site will be ready to share with public in a few weeks
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A3
- By early April, Lawrence Parks and Recreation leaders hope to start a new push to win support for a west-side recreation center, and perhaps a larger wellness center and fieldhouse.
- Toyota shareholders sue over fallen stock price
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker’s stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles.
- Residents fear 2nd volcanic eruption
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- A volcano in southern Iceland has erupted for the first time in almost 200 years, raising concerns that it could trigger a larger and potentially more dangerous eruption at a volatile volcano nearby.
- Building rules opposed for east Jerusalem
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel’s prime minister said Sunday hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop and a crisis in relations between the two longtime allies.
- Left beats Sarkozy’s party in regional vote
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- The long-flailing French left made a big-time comeback Sunday, crushing Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservatives in regional elections colored by voters’ economic worries — and informally kicking off the 2012 presidential race.
- Iraqi election board rejects recount request
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A2
- As new results from this month’s election continued to show a neck-and-neck race, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday issued a strongly worded warning that without a nationwide recount, the country could descend into violence.
- House speaker to testify on Tuesday
- March 22, 2010 in print edition on A1
- An investigative committee looking into an allegation of misconduct against Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, has waded into questions about conflicts of interest that sometimes surround legislators and their outside work.
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- God, marriage May 25, 2012 · 192 comments
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- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Kansas tax act most regressive in nation May 27, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Friends mourn Lynn Bretz, former voice of KU May 28, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
- Famed author takes on Kansas October 7, 2005
- Retreat offered for writers May 28, 2012
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