Also from March 22
Births
Chats
Obituaries
On the street
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
Do you think Kansas legislative staff should be included in a proposed pay cut for state employees?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 91% | |
| No | 6% | |
| I’m not sure | 1% | |
| Total | 1485 | |
Who was KU's MVP during its first two NCAA games in Tulsa?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Markieff Morris | 42% | |
| Marcus Morris | 31% | |
| Tyshawn Taylor | 18% | |
| Brady Morningstar | 6% | |
| Other | 2% | |
| Total | 425 | |
Videos
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
Statehouse Live: House Appropriations advances state employee pay cut; exempts support staff- 1:44 p.m., March 21, 2011 Updated 8:41 a.m. in print edition on 1A
- The measure would cut 7.5 percent for workers and state officials earning more than $100,000, and cut pay on a sliding scale for those between $40,000 and $100,000. Those making $40,000 and less would see no pay cut.
- Poll: Do you think Kansas legislative staff should be included in a proposed pay cut for state employees?
10:00 a.m.
Lawrence City Commission candidates sharpen their messages at forum- March 21, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- With the election about two weeks away, candidates for the Lawrence City Commission at a Monday evening forum became a bit more like boxers trying to pick up the pace. The jabs became a little more frequent and strategically placed as the five candidates participated in a forum hosted by the North Lawrence Improvement Association.
- Videos: Three questions for Lawrence City Commission candidates
- Poll: Which three candidates will be elected to the Lawrence City Commission?
- Special coverage: 2011 Lawrence City Commission election
11:00 a.m.
Online chat
- Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher live chat
- March 22, 2011
- Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher will chat live with LJWorld.com users Tuesday, March 22 at 11 a.m. Submit your question in advance below.
11:27 a.m.
Online chat
- Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher live chat
- March 22, 2011
- Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher will chat live with LJWorld.com users Tuesday, March 22 at 11 a.m. Submit your question in advance below.
12:30 p.m.
Online chat
- Lawrence school board candidate Jim Clark live chat
- March 22, 2011
- Lawrence school board candidate Jim Clark will chat live with LJWorld.com users Tuesday, March 22 at 12:30 p.m. Submit your question in advance below.
2:00 p.m.
Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher familiar with budget cuts as KU personnel director- March 21, 2011 in print edition on 3A
- Ola Faucher is nothing if not methodical. Precise. Determined. And she’s certainly ready, willing and able to infuse her approach into leadership at the Lawrence school district, where budget cuts continue to mount and the community’s concerns show no sign of abating.
- Video: Three questions with Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher
- Special coverage: 2011 Lawrence school board election
- Chat: Lawrence school board candidate Ola Faucher live chat
6:00 p.m.
Douglas County’s chief probation officer Ron Stegall retiring after 16 years- March 21, 2011 in print edition on 1A
- Ron Stegall’s two main professions in his life — as a pastor and a probation officer — might seem like a strange combination. But, if you think about it, he says, the similarities are definitely there.
All stories
- Portable solar trackers follow the sun, lead the way in efficiency
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A3
- For the past few years, Natalya Lowther has watched Mark Moser hammer out the details of a portable solar tracker in her father’s backyard in Manhattan.
- Federal judge sentences Meriden man to 15 months in bank embezzlement case
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A4
- A federal judge Monday sentenced a Meriden man to serve 15 months in federal prison for his role in helping a former Jefferson County bank president embezzle funds.
- Douglas County maintenance director plans to cut energy use 30 percent by 2015
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A1
- By 2015, Douglas County maintenance director Bill Bell has a goal of reducing the county’s energy consumption by 30 percent. His ideas of how to get there aren’t glamorous ones.
- Lawrence school board candidate Randy Masten, retired Army officer, ready to plan ahead
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A3
- Randy Masten learned the importance of strategic planning not in a classroom, or from a textbook, or from one of those convention center management seminars. No, Masten saw the significance firsthand as a U.S. Army officer on post in Iraq — as a team chief at the Combined Intelligence Center in Baghdad — and then later on staff at the Pentagon.
- Judge rejects plans for Google library
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on C4
- A judge rejected a deal between Google and the book industry Tuesday that would have put millions of volumes online, citing anti-trust concerns while acknowledging the potential benefit of putting literature in front of the masses.
- Lawrence community shelter evacuated after report of smell of smoke
- 06:04 p.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 09:09 p.m.
- The Lawrence Community Shelter, 214 W. 10th St., has been evacuated due to an odor of smoke as firefighters try to find the possible source.
- Senate to discuss proposals for Kansas Parole Board’s future
- March 22, 2011
- The state Senate has scheduled debate on two measures dealing with the future of the Kansas Parole Board.
- Third suspect convicted in 2009 Salina homicide
- March 22, 2011
- The third and final defendant in the killing of a Salina man two years ago has been found guilty.
- Garden City man changes plea in sister’s stabbing death
- March 22, 2011
- A Garden City man has changed his plea in the stabbing death of his sister.
- Trial delayed in fatal shooting near Topeka school
- March 22, 2011
- The trial of a woman charged in the fatal shooting on the grounds of a Topeka high school has been delayed.
- Health care ‘freedom’ plan advances in Kansas Senate
- March 22, 2011
- A proposal aimed at blocking part of last year’s federal health care overhaul from taking effect in Kansas has advanced in the state Senate.
- TransCanada: More U.S. scrutiny won’t increase pipeline construction cost
- March 22, 2011
- The multibillion-dollar cost of a proposed pipeline designed to carry Canadian crude to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast won’t increase if the project succeeds in getting U.S. approval by the end of the year, the company building the pipeline says.
- Kansas House gives first-round approval to plan to extend smoking ban to state-owned casinos
- 05:20 p.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 07:39 p.m. in print edition on A6
- Kansas House members gave first-round approval on Tuesday to a bill extending the 2010 statewide smoking ban to include state-owned casinos.
- Kansas Senate advances voter ID proposals
- 05:15 p.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 12:51 a.m. in print edition on A6
- Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposal to require Kansas voters to show photo identification at the polls won first-round approval Tuesday in the state Senate, although other aspects of his plan to eliminate voter fraud were left out.
- Kansas House panel OKs plan to slash spending next year
- 05:05 p.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 06:59 p.m.
- A House budget committee has endorsed at 2012 Kansas budget after weeks of deliberation, producing a bill that would cut spending and leave the state with nearly $83 million in the bank.
- Judge rejects challenges to death penalty law from defendant charged with killing Great Bend teenager
- March 22, 2011
- A Kansas judge on Tuesday rejected challenges to the state’s death penalty law raised by the suspect charged with killing a 14-year-old Great Bend teenager last year.
- Kansas Senate president’s pension plan wins first-round approval
- March 22, 2011
- Kansas teachers and government workers would be required to pay more toward their pensions but see the state’s contribution increase by $23 million annually under a plan that won first-round approval Tuesday in the Senate.
- State union official urges legislators to reject ‘attack on Kansas worker protections’
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A5
- Kansas’ largest state employee union urged legislators on Tuesday to reject a move by Kansas Secretary of Labor Karin Brownlee to have total authority over who can work for the agency.
- One lane to close Wednesday on U.S. 24 in eastern Jefferson County
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A4
- Scheduled work on a bridge on U.S. Highway 24 in Jefferson County will reduce traffic in both directions on that road to one lane Wednesday.
- Paper products for the people: “Build this Cardboard Thing” includes hands-on workshop and a show by Kansas City’s Juniper Tangpuz
- March 22, 2011
- Cardboard isn’t just for boxes.
- World Water Day celebrates life-sustaining force, focuses on urbanization
- March 22, 2011
- March 22 is officially World Water Day, a designation that was made by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992. The first celebration was held on March 22, 1993. This year’s official celebrations are being held in Cape Town, South Africa, where there will be a focus on water and urbanization.
- Tornado watch for Douglas County canceled
- 02:12 p.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 07:15 p.m.
- The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch effective until 9 p.m. Tuesday.
- Investigators looking into vehicle fire near 21st and Louisiana
- March 22, 2011
- Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical workers are investigating a vehicle fire that occurred Monday night near 21st and Louisiana streets.
- Town Talk: Subaru dealership to get new South Lawrence presence; talks to bring Chrysler dealership back to Lawrence progressing; turnout for advanced voting up over 2009 totals
- March 22, 2011
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County:
- Major tax overhaul needs to be fully vetted, Kansas Senate president says
- 11:41 a.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 03:48 p.m. in print edition on A3
- The House-approved tax legislation would require a cut in the corporate and individual income tax rates for any fiscal year where tax revenues rise above last year’s total.
- Douglas County prosecutors charge Eudora man with molesting child
- 11:14 a.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 04:59 p.m. in print edition on A4
- Douglas County prosecutors have charged a 46-year-old Eudora man with molesting a child, and he was arrested on a warrant for aggravated criminal sodomy last week in Missouri, said Grady Walker, Eudora’s police chief.
- School board candidates participate in Voter Education Coalition Forum
- March 22, 2011
- The Voter Education Coalition will host a forum featuring candidates for the Lawrence school board is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the City Commission chambers at City Hall.
- Power restored to nearly 2,000 Westar Energy customers in downtown Lawrence
- 07:58 a.m., March 22, 2011 Updated 09:02 a.m.
- More than 1,900 Westar Energy customers lost power shortly after 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to the utility’s website.
- First Bell: Three more board candidates ready to chat online; candidate forum set for tonight; volunteers sought for ‘food backpack’ program
- March 22, 2011
- Time for another edition of First Bell, a rundown of news and other educational items involving schools in the area.
- Heard on the Hill: KU out in first round of 2011 lobbying bracket; KU professor gets Wall Street Journal mention; Natural History Museum to host art event devoted to evolution
- March 22, 2011
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- 40 years ago: Paper bags with ‘vegetative’ contents found, turned over to police
- March 22, 2011
- Two paper bags containing “vegetation believed to be marijuana” had been found and turned in to police.
- New SyFy show ‘Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen’ gives new meaning to frozen dinners
- March 22, 2011
- Some decades back, folks used to predict that all food preparation would give way to science. Astronauts ate their meals out of tubes, and we were all told that soon our dinners would come in the shape of tiny pills. How convenient.
- Horoscopes for March 22
- March 22, 2011
- This year, you appear extraordinarily grounded. Communication becomes a star issue, which you and others seem to work on. You also might find work more of a burden than in the past. If you are single, the next four months could draw in quite a few suitors. If you are attached, your partner could be a bit “different.” Scorpio bottom-lines situations.
- 25 years ago: Tongie residents face junior-high bond issue
- March 22, 2011
- In Tonganoxie, residents voting in the April 8 election were to face a proposed bond issue for construction of a junior high school.
- Spring break is the perfect time to get kids in the kitchen
- March 22, 2011
- Sneak in a bit of education along with a plate-load of fun by getting children cooking during their time at home.
- 100 years ago: Thousands of bushels of wheat destroyed in mill fire
- March 22, 2011
- “Thirteen thousand bushels of wheat were destroyed this morning when the Hadley mill at De Soto was destroyed by fire.”
- Balancing Mideast security, democracy
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A6
- There’s been a lot of criticism of President Obama for being too slow to support the Mideast’s popular uprisings, especially in Libya.
- Easy solution?
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A6
- I could describe how wonderful Wakarusa Valley is, how it is the reason we reside where we do. But you will hear the same from every parent about any school.
- Always campaigning
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A6
- People say Obama “dithers.” Nonsense. He’s not dithering; he’s campaigning.
- Welcome recognition
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A6
- What a pleasure it was to open the Sunday March 20 issue of the Lawrence Journal-World to find several pages devoted to Academic All-star Teams from 2011 and 2001.
- Life lessons
- Kudos to local programs seeking to help young people put their best foot forward.
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on A6
- In a world dominated by online communication venues, it can be easy to forget how important a real-life personal impression can be.
- Richmond coach’s name may emerge
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B1
- The Richmond Spiders have one of the most marketable young coaches in the country in 38-year-old Chris Mooney.
- FSHS grads affected by UNO dumping football
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Michael Lisher logged onto his computer around 10:30 p.m. on March 12 to read an e-mail from University of Nebraska-Omaha athletic director Trev Alberts.
- LHS baseball falls to Bishop Kelley
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Lawrence High’s baseball team fell, 7-3, to Bishop Kelly, the No. 1 team in Oklahoma’s Class 5A, on Monday.
- Jayhawks in the NBA
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B2
- Here’s how former Jayhawks fared in NBA action Monday, March 21, 2011.
- Tennessee fires men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B2
- Tennessee fired Bruce Pearl after a season in which the coach was charged with unethical conduct for lying to NCAA investigators during a probe into recruiting.
- Report: Mike Anderson staying at MU
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B2
- Missouri basketball coach Mike Anderson will remain Tigers coach, ESPN.com reported on Monday night.
- Luke Hochevar to get nod in Royals’ season opener
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B3
- Luke Hochevar was picked Monday to start the Kansas City Royals’ season opener March 31 against the Los Angeles Angels.
- KU big favorite to make Final Four with favorable draw
- March 22, 2011 in print edition on B1
- Those who look at remaining seeds — and only seeds — have to consider Kansas University’s basketball team the overwhelming favorite to emerge as the Southwest Regional’s representative in the 2011 Final Four.
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- U.S. military sees new appreciation May 28, 2012 · 16 comments
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- Parents have electronic tether to campus May 28, 2012 · 12 comments
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