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Ex-Ford CEO Mulally tells KU crowd to work together By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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Alan Mulally — one of the most successful businessmen to come from the University of Kansas and Lawrence High School — wasn’t feeling much success soon after he became president and CEO of Ford Motor Co. in 2006. “The first forecast I saw after taking the job was for a $17 billion loss,” Mulally told a crowd of several hundred people Thursday at the Lied Center as part of the KU Business School’s Anderson Chandler Lecture. “And four months later ,we achieved that.” Part of Mulally’s turnaround plan at Ford was weekly meetings with Ford’s top leaders. He asked leaders to present
At forum, legislative hopefuls address criminal justice reform By Peter Hancock
Not only were we going to save Ford, but we were going to be able to handle anything that came our way because we were working together.”
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There was little diversity of opinion Thursday night at a Douglas County candidate forum that focused on criminal justice reform in Kansas. That’s because the forum
at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lawrence drew only eight legislative candidates, seven Democrats and one moderate Republican, all of whom generally share similar opinions on issues such as reducing sentences for non-violent drug offenses and the need
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Chamber announces plans for 5-year eco devo effort Lawrence Chamber of Commerce officials have announced plans to raise $1.8 million for a five-year capital campaign to boost economic development efforts in the community. The Chamber has set specific goals for what it wants to accomplish in those years, including attracting large-scale businesses to the area. “We’ve got some work to do,” Larry McElwain, president and CEO of The Chamber, told attendees of a meeting Thursday. “There is a group that is working on that diligently. Three weeks ago, we toured Douglas County in a 16-passenger van and looked at a lot of potential sites.” McElwain said those sites will be studied as potential
NEW YORK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FIFTH-GRADER CLAUDIA DAVIS rides laps around her school’s gym Wednesday morning during teacher Alex Reyes’ PE class.
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We’ve got some work to do (to attract large-scale businesses). There is a group that is working on that diligently.”
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District’s new cycling program a hit
— Larry McElwain, president and CEO of The Chamber
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locations for larger projects, specifically ones that are looking for more space than can be offered at Lawrence VenturePark, which is the industrial park located on what used to be the Farmland Industries fertilizer plant in eastern Lawrence. McElwain said some businesses are looking for more space than the 250-acre park has to offer.
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verett Webb, a fifth-grader at New York Elementary School, first hopped on a bicycle less than two months ago. You wouldn’t know it by watching him confidently loop around his school’s gym Wednesday morning, as PE teacher Alex Reyes led Webb and 16 of his classmates through a series of exercises designed to test the young cyclists’ braking skills. “When I started, I was horrible,” Everett says, taking a respite after colliding with another classmate on the gym floor (the kids haven’t mastered braking just yet). “Now, I can take off and everything.” It’s a source of pride for Everett, who remembers feeling
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Putting Lawrence’s expensive reputation in perspective
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ffordable housing” is as big of a buzzword at City Hall as “Halloween candy” is in my household. So city leaders don’t need any extra push to work on the affordable housing issue, but they have gotten a national reminder anyway. A new report is out that lists Lawrence as the most expensive city in the state of Kansas. The financial news site 24/7 Wall Street — which provides
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its content to large national sites like USA Today, MSN, Time and others — has listed the most
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to eliminate racial disparities in criminal sentencing. But Micah Kubic, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, one of the sponsors of the event, said the point was mainly to put some focus on issues
SCHOOLS ROLL OUT
— Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford Motor Co.
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expensive city in every state, based on 2014 cost of living data from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis. The report, which was getting big billing on MSN.com earlier this week, has good news and bad news in it for Lawrence. The good news is that the cost of living in Lawrence is 5.7 percent less than the national average.
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Our goal is just to get (the students) to ride their bicycles more than they’re doing now. ... Hopefully, if they like it enough, it’ll become more of a hobby.”
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terrified by the prospect of riding a bike at first, more specifically “crashing and falling off some sort of cliff and breaking my ‘everything bone,’” he says. On this day, he isn’t daunted when he falls off his bike. Even with a lightly skinned calf, the fifth-grader chooses to hop right back on. Wednesday’s class marked the second installment of the Lawrence district’s BLAST (Bicycle Lesson and Safety Training) unit at New York, where students are learning cycling basics such as how to properly signal turns and identify road signs. The program,
which piloted in four Lawrence schools last year as part of the communitywide “Be Active Safe Routes” initiative, sends a district-owned fleet of 30 bicycles into a different elementary school every few weeks. The fleet, purchased through a $15,000 grant from the LawrenceDouglas County Health Department and supplemented with helmets donated by the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department, passed through fourth- and fifth-grade PE classes at Quail Run and Woodlawn schools earlier this fall.
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