Lawrence Journal-World 08-08-2016

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Reductions likely will mean more ER visits, actions involving police By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press

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THE HERE KANSAS APARTMENT AND RETAIL PROJECT is pictured in July looking south from the intersection of 11th and Indiana streets.

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orget the robots. A bulldozer is set to solve the serious parking problem at the massive HERE Kansas apartment complex near the University of Kansas campus. If you remember, the multistory apartment/ retail project near 11th and Mississippi streets was to have a robotic, Jetson-like parking garage. Then, earlier this year, the company

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responsible for producing that robotic system went bankrupt. HERE officials have been looking for a solution ever since. What they’ve come up with is decidedly more low tech: Bulldoze a couple of houses in the Oread neighborhood and build a surface parking lot. Plans have been filed at City Hall for a 68-space parking lot to be built at

1029 Mississippi St., which is basically caddy-corner from the HERE Kansas apartment/retail project. The Mississippi Street property currently has three multifamily housing structures on the property. Plans call for those structures to be razed. Half of the property — the portion that is west of the alley —

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Haskell case brings sex assault issues to forefront More than 56 percent of American Indian women have experienced sexual violence, according to a recently released study from the National Institute of Justice.

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

For nearly two years, two men and the woman they are accused of raping have been caught up in a series of court hearings, motions, subpoenas and testimony. Both criminal trials for the accused men, Galen Satoe and Jared Wheeler, ended with jurors unable to unanimously agree and mistrials being declared. Satoe, 21, and Wheeler, 20, are accused of raping a 19-year-old freshman in their Haskell Indian Nations University dormitory room in November 2014. Both face a number of felony charges regarding the incident.

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Just knowing that someone stood up for you at all is validating.” — Sarah Deer, law professor and

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Defense attorneys in both cases have argued that the sexual encounter was consensual, not criminal. Emotions ran high at both Satoe’s and Wheeler’s trial, and Sarah Deer, a former rape crisis advocate in Lawrence and current law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, says the cases likely have a strong impact outside the courtroom and among those not immediately involved. “I imagine this is really traumatizing a lot of people who are just trying to get through the day to day,” she said. More than 56 percent of American Indian women have experienced

Wichita — Funding cuts to mental health services in Kansas have spawned layoffs at some of the state’s 26 health centers, many of them positions that help families in crisis manage day-to-day care, mental health advocates say. There’s a $30 million budget hole for mental health for the current fiscal year, the Association of Community Mental Health Centers said last month — a figure that the Kansas DepartFamilies ment for Aging and are Disability frustrated Services and in does not d i s p u t e . tears In a sec- because we tor that do not have never saw its pre- services Recession necessary to s t a t e take care of f u n d i n g their loved restored, the new ones.” program cuts — — Manhattan Mayor which are Usha Reddi expected to result in an estimated loss of 200 positions, association director Kyle Kessler said — are drawing warnings of more hospital admissions, emergency room visits and interactions with law enforcement. “It leaves you vulnerable to being arrested again or back to the hospital or dead,” said Rick Cagan, executive director of the Kansas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “I don’t mean to be dramatic, but this does happen.” Without the state’s cash, some communities, and even recovering patients, are stepping up to do what they can to help, knowing

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