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A lawyer and veteran of hothouse politics, Texas style, Strauss has a way, as he puts it, of "getting things done and making things happen." To some that means "influence peddling." To others Strauss has become, at 69, Washington's pre-eminent cutter of Gordian knots. And if a deadlock...
Please allow me to correct a factual error which appeared in your article on Women's History Week (March 8). You repeat, without comment, a statement that the History Department has made "absolutely no commitment to bringing in a women's historian." In fact, we have among our permanent members...
In the ruling, Judge John Forte dismissed charges brought against the city of Lawrence by a group of five landowners who claimed that the city's planned seizure of their land, under the rule of eminent domain, violated their civil rights.
In their unsuccessful suit, the landowners claimed that the rule of eminent domain did not allow Lawrence to seize the land because of the city's plans to sell part of the land to Emerson, which is a privately owned and operated institution, Ball said.
Under Lawrence statutes, the city may claim eminent, domain only in order to take land to use for the public good. Forte ruled that bringing the college to Lawrence would raise city revenues and thus contribute to the public good.