- “Finding The Political Will To Reverse Climate Change” -- 04/25/13 at Woodruff Auditorium 18 comments
- Mass Street Mile -- 06/30/13 at Downtown Lawrence 1 comment
- "Why I Left the Republican Party" -- 03/16/13 at Lawrence Arts Center 46 comments
- Loads of Hound Dogs w/ Darrell Lea -- 06/15/13 at Jackpot Music Hall 2 comments
- Kansas Memorial Wake -- 06/08/13 at Plymouth Congregational Church 2 comments
- Black Flag -- 06/06/13 at Granada 1 comment
- Art Tougeau Parade -- 06/01/13 at Downtown Lawrence 1 comment
- Haiti Garage Sale -- 06/01/13 at Christ Community Church, 1100 Kasold 1 comment
- Americana Music Academy House Concert featuring NU BLU Bluegrass Band -- 05/26/13 at Americana Music Academy 1 comment
- Professional dancer to flutter through Kansas milkweed to help save butterflies June 19, 2013
- Daytripper: We're in the money May 20, 2013
- Opinion: Freshman given rock-star treatment June 19, 2013
- Andrew Wiggins scores seven points in Bill Self campers game June 19, 2013
- Consultants raise concerns about proposed LMH wellness center at city's new recreation center June 19, 2013
- Historic Lecompton Territorial Days scheduled for this weekend June 18, 2013
- Shooting reported Tuesday night during road-rage incident; police looking for driver June 19, 2013
- KU football lands two oral commitments June 19, 2013
- Lawrence resident pleads guilty to organizing $16M drug trafficking ring March 1, 2013
- County takes no action on controversial rock quarry June 19, 2013
City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets
I'm a Westlake Ace Hardware man, myself.
If Westlake doesn't have it, they'll tell me where to find it; if they don't know, I don't need it.
June 19, 2013 at 6:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down voter registration law similar to the one in Kansas
The increased prevalence of that attitude might well be an unintended consequence of the ongoing failure to enact and enforce a reasonable immigration law. There are so many Hispanics here illegally --- many millions, we're told --- that the odds seem to weigh in that direction.
The failure of the Federal Government in the area of immigration has been bad for everyone, including Hispanics, including those here legally and for a long time (include some of my beloved relatives).
It is big political sport to keep the problem in place so it can divide us and have us sniping at each other. We should never have allowed the Feds to shirk their duties for so long, at the expense of all of us.
June 17, 2013 at 3:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down voter registration law similar to the one in Kansas
A quick glance at the Court's synopsis indicates there likely will be a Round 2. The ruling seems to be that a State must accept and use the Federal form unless it has submitted its own "state-specific" form. Arizona ignored that and said they would not accept the Federal form without proof of citizenship, but never requested approval of a form to include that requirement.
The Court said that the Feds get to say "how" Federal elections are run, but the States get to say "who" gets to vote in them.
I would expect Arizona will submit a state-specific form request, and that Kansas and/or other states with similar laws, will follow suit. I would also expect that the Obama Administration will refuse to approve the state-specific forms, if they reflect the requirement to prove citizenship. I would then expect this to be back in Court, with the outcome tending to lean more toward the power of the State to say "who" may vote in the election, over the Feds' power to say "how" the election is run --- but who knows how that will come out.
Anyways ... this is not really a ruling on the merits. The Court has not said that Arizona cannot require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote --- it is strongly implied that a State may, in fact, do just that. Rather, the ruling was that Arizona ignored the Federal procedure on how it may go about putting that requirement into practice.
Much celebration or despair on either side might be a little premature.
June 17, 2013 at 2:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Brownback signs Kansas income tax cut bill into law
You ate food from Dollar Tree? ugh...
June 14, 2013 at 6:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Hung jury in Valley Falls attempted murder case leads to second mistrial
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June 14, 2013 at 6 p.m. ( permalink )
Letter: Sacred wetlands
" ... the theft of the Black Hills ..." ????
You're right. The Sioux should never have taken the Black Hills from the Cheyenne and Crow, etc.
June 12, 2013 at 8:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lawrence-based Dobski & Associates to tear down, rebuild De Soto McDonald's
Sounds like it will still be McDonald's.
June 12, 2013 at 11:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
How would you improve downtown Lawrence?
Sarah, and Cameron too.
June 12, 2013 at 10:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Lawhorn's Lawrence: The hidden survivors of Quantrill's Raid
Note to world: Stop misusing "decimated", as in ...
'downtown Lawrence was almost entirely decimated'
Doesn't decimated still mean reduced by ten percent or a tenth?
To me it does.
Perhaps we could try "devastated" or "destroyed" or "laid to waste" to mean that something is "almost entirely" wiped out.
(deep breaths)
June 9, 2013 at 6:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City wins $1.2 million grant to restore Santa Fe depot
Some call it the "Illegal Alien Express" ... that pesky airport security, coupled with Federal Government failure, has spiked demand for bus and rail transport.
June 7, 2013 at 8:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )