Lawrence Journal-World 08-28-2016

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IS LIBRARY’S PAY LAGGING?

Here are the starting hourly wages for librarians and staff in Lawrence, Topeka and Johnson County. None of the positions are exactly equivalent, as the libraries differ in size and pay structure.

Leader calls for annual raises for next 3 years

IN LAWRENCE

Whether City Commissioners and Lawrence taxpayers are willing to support such pay increases will be the leading question. “This is a conversation that the public needs to have, and that we all need to have together,” library Director Brad Allen said. Allen said he would like to increase pay

$21.06 $17.06 $12.75

By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

After a $255,000 funding increase from the city for 2017, the Lawrence Public Library is set to give some pay increases to its employees. But library leaders say pay is so low currently that even more raises in coming years are needed.

by about 6 percent each year over the next three years. The end goal would be to increase starting librarian pay — which requires a Master of Library Science — from about $35,000 to $40,000 per year. For non-librarian staff, the goal is to increase pay from $12.75 to $15 per hour.

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Versatile ‘musicians’ musician’ eager to share talent

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Multi-instrumentalist to play at Fiddling and Picking Championships

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By Elvyn Jones

IN TOPEKA

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Alone on a quiet Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts Street home of the Americana Music Academy, Michael Paull practiced on a baby grand piano. That’s not unusual for the man whom Diane Gillenwater calls the “musicians’ musician” of the Lawrence music scene. Gillenwater, of Topeka, used to be a fellow faculty member with Paull at the academy, 1419 Massachusetts St.

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I was amazed when I first moved here and am still amazed at the amount of worldclass talent in this town playing music.”

— Michael Paull, musician Mike Yoder/Journal-World File Photo

SUPREME COURT NOMINATING COMMISSION

New member could complicate justice retention fight By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

It is possible that one of the most consequential elections of 2016 in Kansas has already taken place. And it was a race in which only one person was nominated, and hardly anyone knows much about him.

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Lenin V. Guerra, an Olathe attorney, was recently chosen by default to fill an open seat on the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission, a group that has significant influence over the naming of Supreme Court justices. That commission has been the subject of intense and

heated debates in the Kansas Legislature in recent years. Critics say it unfairly limits a governor’s ability to name justices and gives too much control to the very attorneys who practice in front of the court. And conservative groups in particular complain that the Kansas Bar as a whole is

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WHERE’S A&E? The Journal-World’s A&E section does not appear in today’s edition. It is taking a one-week break to make room for the KU Fall Sports Preview special section. The A&E section will return next Sunday. The Dear Annie and television page that normally appears in A&E can be found on page 4E. The crossword puzzles that normally appear in A&E can be found on page 5E.

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