¢ A columnist for the Tufts Daily, the newspaper at Tufts University, contrasts law enforcement at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival to what happened last summer at Lawrence’s Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival._ In many ways, despite the torturous environment, the (Bonnaroo) festival grounds are utopian. Unlike every other large-scale American music festival, Bonnaroo takes place on private property. This confines law enforcement to the one paved service road on site, and relegates them to the position of general peacekeeper rather than that of a fascist underage-drinking watch.__Last summer at Wakarusa, a similar festival in Lawrence, Kansas, law enforcement agencies arrested or expelled 144 festival-goers due to heavy patrolling. At Bonnaroo, well, let’s just say that didn’t happen._¢ Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics at KU, asks the question, “What’s the Matter with Washington?” with an essay in the February/March issue of the Ripon Forum, a Republican Party publication.¢ BoomerGirl.com, the new Lawrence-based Web site dedicated to women of the Baby Boom generation, is garnering attention from media across the country. The media mentions include the CBS Early Show, Los Angeles Times/Washington Post wire service and the Boston Herald. The Web site is owned by The World Company, which also owns the Lawrence Journal-World.An excerpt from the LA Times/Washington Post story: _The site grew out of a Kansas woman’s weekly column on her own midlife misadventures and the challenges and humorous happenings of being a female over 50. Cathy Hamilton, who wrote Boomer Girl Diary for a local paper, was surprised when she searched for similar content online and found little.__”My kids are all over Facebook and MySpace, which offer relevant content and a community experience for teens and twenty-somethings,” says Hamilton, 51. “I wanted to find the same thing for women my age, but there really wasn’t much out there.” Hamilton took her idea for a Web site geared toward middle-aged women to the marketing folks at her paper. They saw the potential and helped get the project up and running._¢ Lawrence’s Indoor Aquatic Center is praised in an article in today’s [Des Moines Register][7]. A physician who is the focus of a feature says she wishes Des Moines would build a “first-class facility for competitive swimming, similar to the Lawrence (Kan.) Indoor Aquatic Center.” [3]: www.boomergirl.com