From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 26, 1986:

• Warm Hearts, a volunteer organization offering help to low-income people with their winter heating bills, launched their fourth fund-raising campaign. Twenty-nine households, or a total of 92 persons, had been helped since Dec. 16, with assistance totaling $4,653. These needs had been met with leftover contributions from the previous year, but Warm Hearts officials said that another $25,000 was needed to meet the needs for the remainder of the winter.
• Both supporters and critics were speaking up about a new proposal to shift site plan review from the Lawrence City Commission to the city planning staff. The new process would speed up the planning for developers and reduce the burden on the commissioners, but it would also remove public comment from that stage of the development process. Critics said that the new plan would also eliminate public notice about proposed developments that could affect neighborhoods.