Two Douglas County Democratic legislators said Sunday that a Medicaid expansion bill that passed the House will have a difficult time gaining Senate approval despite enjoying the support of the majority of lawmakers in the upper chamber. Sen. Tom Holland, of Baldwin City, and Eileen Horn, of Lawrence, told about 20 constituents Sunday at a legislative forum at the Baldwin City Lumberyard Arts Center that 21 ...
Retired high school coach and teacher Ginny Honomichl knows from experience that not everyone was happy with the growth of women’s sports in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One person who was upset with the new opportunities for women, she said, was former Kansas State University men’s basketball coach Jack Hartman. Honomichl, who was a member of the Wildcat team when women’s basketball was introduced at ...
Justice Matters has officially closed the books on last spring’s Proposition 1 referendum by filing a campaign spending report that shows that the group spent $34,555 in its campaign against the ballot measure. On Feb. 18, the faith-based group filed an accounting of the money it raised and spent to fight the measure that would have authorized a half-cent sales tax to fund a $44 million expansion of the ...
Asher Wolfe, an eighth-grader at Raintree Montessori School, finished third in the Sunflower State Spelling Bee, which took place Saturday in Wichita. All of the first-place winners of countywide spelling bees in the state's 105 counties were eligible to compete in the state bee on the campus of Newman University, said Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, which sponsored the ...
A joint legislative task force report on transportation has a lot of promising recommendations for the county, the director of Douglas County Public Works says. The report released in January made recommendations to guide development of a new state transportation plan and reflected findings from a series of hearings the Joint Legislative Transportation Vision Task Force conducted last fall and summer. The task ...
Lawrence and Douglas County are in store for bitter cold temperatures following the latest in a series of winter storms to visit the area this season. Shawn Byrne, of the National Weather Service Office in Topeka, said about four inches of snow fell in Lawrence from about 2 to 8 a.m. Sunday. The snow is the last moisture the area will see until at least late Wednesday or early Thursday, but the frigid ...