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Simons: Presidential election will be critical to America’s future
By Dolph C. Simons, Jr.
October 11, 2008
A little more than three weeks from today, American voters will be going to the polls to select the next president of the United States — the president of the most powerful and most influential nation in the world. Voters have two choices: Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, 73, a career military officer, a Caucasian; and Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, 47, a lawyer and community organizer, the first African-American to be nominated for the presidency.

Tom Keegan

Keegan: The race to say yes to Kansas
By Tom Keegan
October 13, 2008
On Wall Street of late, the rich have gotten poorer. Not the case in college basketball, where defending national champion Kansas University is involved strictly with McDonald’s All-American-caliber recruits, even having to say no thanks to some.

Take a Stand

Blind residents support T funds
By Jim Canaday - Douglas County Area Chapter, National Federation of the Blind
September 19, 2008
We strongly urge our fellow Lawrencians to vote “yes” on measures 2 and 3, on the Lawrence ballot in November. We respectfully ask for your support, knowing that improvements must be made to the system. Independence and freedom are very important to your blind neighbors, as they are to everyone; a well-designed fixed-route bus system promotes our independence and freedom.

Boomer Girl Diary

Current events put everyday worries into perspective
By Cathy Hamilton
October 12, 2008
And to think I used to spend time worrying about the pack rat that lives in my garage. Yes, believe it or not, I actually used to fret about the silly little rodent that scampers across the concrete, caught in the headlights when we return home from an evening out. “When are you going to kill that varmint?” I’d shriek at my beleaguered husband. “It’s stressing me out, I tell you!”

Bill Mayer

Mayer: Football now too brutal
By Bill Mayer
October 10, 2008
People go to auto races to see collisions, to hockey matches to watch the fights and, ideally, to football games to see speed, grace and finesse along with brutal, brain-rattling contact. Some gridiron tutors operate on the “kill-and-maim” philosophy. Most of them don’t encourage such an approach, realizing that it has a way of inviting retaliation.

Chuck Woodling

Woodling: KU-ISU in ’92 a doozy
By Chuck Woodling
October 7, 2008
Seldom one to keep his emotions in check, Glen Mason blurted: “I still don’t believe it. It was the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen.” Mason was Kansas University’s football coach the day the Jayhawks staged the greatest comeback in school history. The date was Oct. 17, 1992. The place was Iowa State. Saturday, as you know, KU rallied from a 20-point halftime deficit to shock the Cyclones, but that turnaround bore little resemblance to that October ’92 stunner.

Gary Bedore

Future forecast
Gary Bedore’s observations after exhibitions
By Gary Bedore
September 2, 2008
Here are some of my first impressions of the 2008-09 Kansas Jayhawks, based on the squad’s Labor Day weekend trip to Canada. KU defeated McGill, 72-67, and Carleton, 84-83, on Saturday before pounding Ottawa, 95-60, on Sunday.

Ryan Wood

Tracking down team fun, but difficult, task
Google, cell phone indispensible
By Ryan Wood
February 16, 2008
The phone rang for a man I presumed to be Lincoln Minor, the former Kansas University basketball player who played 34 games in the 1987-88 season. “Hello?” the man on the other end answered. “Hi, is this Lincoln?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “The Lincoln who played basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks?” “No,” the man replied. “This is his father.” Hey, that’s progress.

Cooking Q & A

Recent studies add to fructose’s rap sheet
By Susan Krumm
October 8, 2008
Q: Is high-fructose corn syrup really that bad for us?

Gwyn Mellinger

Longtime columnist says farewell
By Gwyn Mellinger
May 7, 2008
I always knew this moment would come, eventually, and that I would find myself writing my most difficult column. “Kitchen & Garden” has sprouted from my keyboard every week for more than 12 years — in the neighborhood of 650 columns — but the time has come to till it under and plant something new.

George Gurley

Delusions feed government excess
By George Gurley
October 5, 2008
That crafty rascal Lenin was right when he said that the best way to destroy capitalism was to debauch the currency — in other words, to increase the supply of money, to make it worth less. This is the classic way that governments try to weasel out of their debts. It’s also, as Lenin said, an insidious way of confiscating the wealth of their citizens.

Marsha Henry Goff

Requiem paid to Clyde the camel, other neighborhood pals
By Marsha Henry Goff
October 5, 2008
I tend to be single-minded when I am shopping, so, if she hadn’t called my name, I might not have noticed my neighbor LaDonna as I passed her in the grocery aisle. LaDonna and her husband, Vic, care for a wonderful variety of critters, including Black Angus cattle, miniature donkeys, llamas, pheasants from all over the world, emus, trumpeter swans, hairy chickens, cranes, several dogs and a camel.

Mike Hoeflich

Crisis answers not simple
By Mike Hoeflich
October 1, 2008
There are so many things about the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Wall Street’s massive financial troubles, and the bizarre politics of the federal government’s bailout attempts, that it is really very difficult to know where to begin to question how and why this whole thing happened.

Garden Calendar

Cooler weather brings mice inside
By Jennifer Smith
October 9, 2008
As I write this, my new friend Mickey is cautiously peeking around the corner of the file cabinet, eyeing the popcorn trail that leads to the peanut butter treat I left for him. I thought he would eat the snacks hours ago. Maybe his little mouse brain is weighing the potential consequences, or maybe there is something a little suspicious about the sudden abundance of food available to him.

Eileen Roddy

Spiritual energy: Catholicism, reiki healing join forces for Marta Schwartz
By Eileen Roddy - Special to the Journal-World
October 13, 2008
From her earliest years, Marta Schwartz was searching for something. Her outer journey took her halfway around the world; her inner journey led her to explore different paths.
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