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Feds pick 32nd Street alignment for trafficway
Monday, January 6, 2003
(Updated Monday at 4:18 p.m.) The South Lawrence Trafficway should be finished by building a four-lane highway through the Baker Wetlands, the federal government concluded in a definitive study released Monday afternoon.
Decision time arrives — again
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The clock is ticking on the South Lawrence Trafficway. Twelve years after voters approved the concept of running a highway around Lawrence's western and southern edges, state highway officials say they're finally ready to shift into the fast lane and win approval for completion of the road.
Federal study supports two alternatives
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Finishing the South Lawrence Trafficway through the Baker Wetlands stands the best chance of meeting the city's growing traffic, safety and development needs, a new federal study concludes.
Community's traffic needs at heart of trafficway project
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The Kansas Department of Transportation's desire to finish the South Lawrence Trafficway is summed up in the agency's permit application for filling portions of the Baker Wetlands.
Wetlands, graves concern tribes
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The state's desire to finish the South Lawrence Trafficway through the Baker Wetlands is running up against opposition from American Indian tribes, but government officials are confident they can clear the hurdles.
South Lawrence Trafficway's history predates World War II
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Click, load and learn
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The more than 1,000 pages of text, charts and graphics that make a case for completing the South Lawrence Trafficway along one of two alignments soon will be available with the click of a mouse. And then a wait at the mailbox.
So, just what is a 'draft EIS'?
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
The Kansas Department of Transportation spent $2 million to produce a document designed to answer the public's questions and concerns about the proposed completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway. epartment officials want to get as much as they can for their investment.
How high do you predict gas prices will get this summer?
"I’ll guess $3.40 around here. Things seem tenuous with the oil supply, so I can see it getting that high. I hope not, but I can see it happening."
— Steve Bradt, brewer, Lawrence
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Lawrence Henderson isn't worried about young people losing interest in the bootlegging and illegal gambling of the 1930s. "As long as we have the History Channel, people are going to know about gangsters," Henderson says. "There's an American love affair with gangsters." And that, in part, is what keeps interest alive in "Guys and Dolls," which Henderson stars in starting Friday at University Theatre. The musical, by Manhattan-born Damon Runyon, tells the story of Nathan Detroit, who is desperate to find money for his crap game. He bets friend Sky Masterson $1,000 that Masterson can't convince a local Salvation Army girl, Sgt. Sarah Brown, to go to Cuba with him. When Masterson wins the bet and ends up falling in love with Brown, he bets the members of the crap game that if he wins a roll of the dice, they will all have to go to the Salvation Army. He wins, and the gamblers visit the mission and repent of their sins.Full story.
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