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25 years ago: KU tries to shake 'Country Club Week' tradition 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Many students still regarded the week before classes as the last big blowout of the summer.
40 years ago: Busy week in municipal court 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
The week ending Aug. 17 showed 39 persons convicted of speeding.
100 years ago: Lawrence streetcars getting Fall makeover 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
"Out at the car barns the work of repainting the cars has begun."
A promised move to Lawrence helped save cancer patient’s life 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
As we sit down in the home Harold and Mary Lake have shared since moving back to Lawrence in 2008 — a move the couple agree saved Harold’s life — Lake shares his journey from diagnosis to remission of...
Editorial: Cost recovery 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Special events bring both energy and business to Lawrence’s downtown, but there’s a limit to how much expense the city should bear to support such events — especially when they are staged by for-profi...
Letter: Leave it alone 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
On the porch couch ordinance, Lawrence is already referred to as “snob hill” by many.
Letter: William who? 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
While Sunday’s editorial rightly congratulated everyone who was involved in the planning and implementation of events connected with the 150th anniversary of Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, it referred ...
Opinion: Medicare model may gain favor 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Any program as large and complex as Obamacare (not to mention one facing such entrenched opposition) is going to encounter some turbulence on its shakedown cruise. But the recent glitches are as impor...
Opinion: U.S. losing race for global talent 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
While the much-needed U.S. immigration reform bill remains stuck in Congress, Canada is not waiting — it has launched a pilot program to attract global entrepreneurs by offering them permanent visas a...
Motorcycle crash on U.S. 59 27 Aug 2013 | 08:46 am
A single-vehicle motorcycle crash was reported on the southbound lane of U.S. Highway 59, between mile markers 143 and 144, at about 10 p.m. Monday. A Life Star helicopter transferred the motorist, wh...
