Also from May 8
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Polls
Do you prefer watching or participating in team sports or individual sports?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Team sports | 67% | |
| Neither | 20% | |
| Individual sports | 11% | |
| Total | 326 | |
Lead stories
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Pharmacists could refuse to dispense contraception based on moral grounds under bill- May 7, 2012
- A bill under consideration in the Kansas House could allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for contraception on moral grounds and would make Kansas one of nine states to legally protect a pharmacist’s right to refuse.
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House bill bans indirectly subsidizing abortions- May 8, 2012
- The Kansas House on Monday approved a bill designed to prevent the state from subsidizing abortions even indirectly through tax breaks, but the measure’s chances in the Senate appeared uncertain.
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Lawrence city commission may change law to allow business to sell chicks- May 7, 2012
- Lawrence city commissioners at their Tuesday meeting are set to change a city ordinance that caused a local retailer to shut down its annual “Chick Days Sale,” where customers bought baby chickens and ducks to raise.
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All stories
- KU professors honored for research
- May 8, 2012
- Five Kansas University professors received recognition Tuesday for their research across a variety of disciplines at the university.
- Times have changed during elementary educators’ decades in the district, but joy of teaching remains
- May 8, 2012
- Combined, Darcy Schild, Ginny Turvey, Sue Siegfreid and Gerry Bukaty have served in the district’s elementary schools for 119 years. All will be retiring at the end of the year.
- City vows fairness on new council for economic development
- May 8, 2012
- Lawrence city commissioners are open to creating a new consortium to manage economic development efforts in the community, but on Tuesday they vowed to address concerns by some neighborhood representatives that the group not be too heavily tilted to Lawrence Chamber of Commerce interests.
- Lawrence contender for Reader’s Digest’s ‘Most Interesting Town’ title
- May 8, 2012
- Look interesting, Lawrence. A national magazine has announced that Lawrence is in the running to be named “Most Interesting Town In America.”
- House rejects state employee raises, allocates funds for disabled
- May 8, 2012
- In another decision on the $14.4 billion budget, House Republicans, who hold a strong majority, rejected several efforts by Democrats to provide a pay raise to state employees, who haven’t had an increase in three years. But on a close vote, 60-56, the House approved allocating $5.8 million to reduce waitings lists for services for those with physical and developmental disabilities and senior citizens.
- GOP redistricting fight could mean courts make final decision
- May 8, 2012
- Kansas legislators grew increasingly concerned Tuesday that a dispute over redistricting among majority Republicans may prevent passage of any proposals for adjusting the state’s political boundaries and leave the map-making to the courts.
- New study says proposed tax cut measure would benefit wealthy
- May 8, 2012
- The proposal, which may be debated Wednesday by the Senate, “would provide substantial tax cuts for the best off Kansans while actually increasing taxes on many low-income taxpayers because of cuts in low-income credits,” according to the analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
- Ottawa police seek public’s help in finding man who kidnapped woman
- May 8, 2012
- Ottawa police are searching for a 26-year-old man accused of kidnapping a woman on Saturday and taking her to Emporia against her will before she escaped from him.
- Kansas House rejects prison inmate policy change
- May 8, 2012
- House members have rejected an amendment that would have restricted the types of inmates the Kansas Department of Correction could house in county jails.
- Gov. Brownback delivers food to Lawrence homeless shelter, settling Final Four bet with Kentucky governor
- May 8, 2012
- Thanks to the Kentucky Wildcats’ men’s basketball team, Gov. Sam Brownback made a visit Tuesday to the Lawrence Community Shelter.
- Gift to KU honors longtime administrator
- May 8, 2012
- A $10,000 gift to the Kansas University Honors Program will honor Jeff Weinberg, an assistant to the chancellor who has worked at KU for 42 years.
- Town Talk: Lawrence in running for “Most Interesting Town in America”; city to lose nearly $500,000 in CDBG funding; Ballard Center responds to cuts; transit route changes on tap
- 10:29 a.m., May 8, 2012 Updated 04:53 p.m.
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- DMV reopens after computer upgrade
- 09:50 a.m., May 8, 2012 Updated 02:05 p.m.
- Kansans who had to wait a week to conduct business at Department of Motor Vehicle offices can get back in line.
- Attorney General Schmidt’s office pays almost $628K to defend abortion laws
- May 8, 2012
- The Kansas attorney general’s office paid outside lawyers almost $628,000 through April to defend anti-abortion laws enacted last year.
- Kansas House revives Kobach voter-citizenship plan
- 09:47 a.m., May 8, 2012 Updated 06:09 p.m.
- The Kansas House is trying to revive Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposal to start requiring first-time voters to produce proof of their U.S. citizenship next month.
- Leavenworth woman held in child endangerment case
- May 8, 2012
- A northeastern Kansas woman accused of leaving her 2-month-old son alone in a stroller in a dark alley has told a judge she’s a good mother.
- House bill bans indirectly subsidizing abortions
- May 8, 2012
- The Kansas House on Monday approved a bill designed to prevent the state from subsidizing abortions even indirectly through tax breaks, but the measure’s chances in the Senate appeared uncertain.
- Heard on the Hill: Censure punishment changing with the times; energy audit helps KU staffers be a little greener; Monarch Watch Open House and Fundraiser set for Saturday
- May 8, 2012
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- Police youth camp set for next month
- May 8, 2012
- The Lawrence Police Department is once again offering its police camp for youths this summer.
- Some wheat farmers expect harvest to start in May
- May 8, 2012
- Farmers in north-central Kansas might be planting soybeans this time of year, seeding gardens, even mailing graduation announcements — anything but greasing combines.
- Horoscope for May 8
- May 8, 2012
- For Tuesday, May 8: The quality of your communication defines how content you will be this year. You alternate between wanting a lot of closeness and needing some space. If you are single, finding a match that can meet these different needs could be an intense experience. If you are attached, your significant other probably can handle this back and forth.
- Shows hit season’s end
- May 8, 2012
- A winner emerges on the two-hour finale of “The Voice” (8 p.m., NBC). For a moment, it looked like this series might just overtake “American Idol” as America’s favorite singing competition, but its audience dwindled as the season progressed.
- Wrong on jobs
- May 8, 2012
- Last Friday’s mediocre jobs report was greeted with barely concealed glee by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
- Blessed with art
- May 8, 2012
- Two exceptional recent performances in Lawrence deserve special mention.
- Share the vision
- Before planning for a major new recreation complex in northwest Lawrence goes much further, developers need to get the public involved.
- May 8, 2012
- It is clear many behind-the-scenes discussions are occurring at Lawrence City Hall regarding plans for a proposed public-private partnership to build a recreation complex in northwest Lawrence.
- Bosox beat up on K.C.
- May 8, 2012
- Will Middlebrooks homered down each of the lines, David Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia also went deep, and the Boston Red Sox pounded the Kansas City Royals, 11-5, on Monday night to snap a five-game losing streak.
- Free State golf sixth, LHS 12th
- May 8, 2012
- Free State High’s boys golf team placed sixth as three city golfers finished in the top 20 on Monday at the Leavenworth Invitational.
- Elijah Penny ends strong at KCAA state golf
- May 8, 2012
- When Elijah Penny started his golfing career at Veritas Christian as a freshman, he frequently shot in the 120s. Before this season, he’d never scored below 100.
- KU offers to Memphis prep Austin Nichols
- May 8, 2012
- Austin Nichols, a 6-foot-8, 193-pound senior-to-be from Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, has received a scholarship offer from Kansas University, Rivals.com reports.
- FSHS softball finishes sweep of LHS
- May 8, 2012
- Monday afternoon at Lawrence High, the LHS and Free State High softball teams stumbled into as many errors as hits, Free State’s ability to capitalize on the miscues led the Firebirds to a 3-0 victory and a season sweep of the Lions.
- 25 years ago: Fire team takes workshop on bomb site investigation
- May 8, 2012
- Unit members were participating in a four-day, 32-hour school in a quarry south of Lawrence.
- 40 years ago: Art in the Park driven indoors by heavy rains
- May 8, 2012
- The Lawrence Art Guild had rescheduled a second exhibit.
- 100 years ago: Engineering student drowns in KU campus lake
- May 8, 2012
- “Potter’s lake on the University campus last night claimed its second victim.”
- MacArthur speech worth remembering
- May 8, 2012
- Where to start with Douglas MacArthur? To say that he was general of the Army? To note that he was superintendent of West Point?
- Garrett Cleavinger carries LHS baseball past FSHS
- May 8, 2012
- Lawrence High baseball coach Brad Stoll probably didn’t have to say anything to senior starting pitcher Garrett Cleavinger before the Lions’ Senior Night game Monday against rival Free State.
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- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 60 comments
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- Long-term plan suggests toll lanes on K-10 corridor May 23, 2013 · 52 comments
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 88 comments
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- Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say May 22, 2013 · 51 comments
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- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
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