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Simons: Campaign will challenge voters to verify information
By Dolph C. Simons, Jr.
June 21, 2008
It appears the 2008 political campaign season is going to be filled with many tough, mean campaign tactics from the presidential race to the many hotly contested U.S. House and Senate seats. Hopefully, the rough stuff will be minimized at the local and state levels, but perhaps that is wishing for too much.

Tom Keegan

Keegan: Next KU returner? Mmm …
By Tom Keegan
July 3, 2008
Mark Mangino’s football teams typically are among the least-penalized in the nation, and the special teams routinely rank among the best in the Big 12. More often than not, they’re on the right side of the give-away, take-away ratio. All three areas generally are considered accurate barometers of how well-coached a football team is. Mangino believes in putting the best players on special teams. Some coaches believe in putting the best of the rest, as in non-starters.

Take a Stand

Liberty: America’s guiding light
By Al Terwelp
May 31, 2008
Our country is sensing a great looming economic, monetary, foreign and social crisis. Republicans and Democrats at all levels of government are promoting a social, welfare and warfare state.

Boomer Girl Diary

Retail therapy puts shopper in tight spot
By Cathy Hamilton
June 29, 2008
I am writhing around like Harry Houdini in a straight jacket, and I still can’t get out of this stupid tunic top. Panic is setting in. My heart starts to fibrillate. What am I going to do? The department store dressing rooms are full, people are waiting, and I’m trapped inside a little “boho chic” number that’s obviously a size-and-a-half too small.

Bill Mayer

Mayer: Draft spot just the beginning
By Bill Mayer
June 28, 2008
Most Kansas University basketball fans were looking forward to this weekend as a time to reflect fondly on how well things went for Jayhawks in the NBA Draft. Instead, many of us are puzzled, perplexed and downright angry about some nitwit developments which indicate why the NBA has trouble sustaining meaningful loyalties.

Chuck Woodling

Woodling: Happy new year!
By Chuck Woodling
July 1, 2008
You know what today is, don’t you? OK, it’s the first day of the rest of your life. But it’s also a new year for Kansas Athletics Inc. KAI, the corporate behemoth that operates on the Kansas University campus, functions on a fiscal year basis that begins on July 1. The arrival of New Fiscal Year’s Day means that just about all the KAI employees will be receiving their hefty raises based on the bountiful booty created by the football team’s appearance in the Orange Bowl and the men’s basketball team’s … well, you know what it did.

Gary Bedore

Bedore: A look back at Late Nights past
(From someone — the only person? — who has seen them all)
By Gary Bedore
October 12, 2007
Call me on the phone, send me an e-mail — or drop a card or letter in the snail mailbox — to correct me if I’m wrong. But until I hear from you, I’m going to make what I consider a can’t-miss assertion: That, after tonight, I will remain the only person to have attended all 23 season-opening “Late Nights” in Kansas University’s tradition-rich Allen Fieldhouse.

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

Get the full scoop on freezing fresh fruit
By Susan Krumm
July 2, 2008
Q: We are getting an abundance of cherries off our trees this year. What’s the best way to freeze them?

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

Nature’s harshness raises life questions
By George Gurley
June 1, 2008
Last January, on one of our winter walks, my daughter’s boyfriend reached down and fished two pairs of immense antlers out of a pile of matted leaves.

Marsha Henry Goff

Dad, I hardly knew ye
By Marsha Henry Goff
June 15, 2008
I first called him Daddy, then shortened it to Dad. During my early teen years, I briefly flirted with calling him Lew but that felt silly and stilted even to me. I’m grateful I had the opportunity to know him as an adult, but — while I thought I knew him well —there was a part of his life that was closed to me.

Mike Hoeflich

State shares tuition blame
By Mike Hoeflich
June 11, 2008
I believe that tuition at the Kansas Board off Regents universities is too high and that the annual increases students and their families are being asked to bear are insupportable in the current economy.

Stan Ring

Fall’s the time to control next year’s weeds
By Stan Ring
September 13, 2007
Winter annual weeds sprout now, overwinter and begin active spring growth before all else. Seeds have dropped to the soil and are just waiting to flourish. At the first drop of moisture, or even heavy dew, they start to come alive. They will soon become visible as small seedlings. When these reach the flowering stage, early next spring, they may be next to impossible to control. Now is the most effective, easiest and least expensive control opportunity.

Eileen Roddy

New arrival on Massachusetts Street makes splash in local tea market
By Eileen Roddy
June 30, 2008
Wouldn’t you know it? Just when I thought I’d finished gallivanting around the area visiting and writing about tea shops, and made the decision to focus future columns on people instead of tea, a great new place, offering a fabulous selection of quality loose-leaf teas, opened in Lawrence.
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