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Plus, there is lots of white foam and debris in the water. The trail is closed off.

People can eat liquor-infused ice cream at Recess at 722 Mass. "Folks can pick from 24 ice cream flavors and then pick from 11 different colorful cones. For those over 21, Baysinger recommends a double scoop of the whiskey vanilla and stellar coffee on the midnight black cone." (Lawrence Times, 9-17-26) Opens at noon on weekends.

The official National Weather Service high temps (at Lawrence Regional Airport) have averaged 99.7 F the last 10 days (and forecast for 101F today). At least the humidity has been lower for this fourth heat wave of the summer. This heat wave was unprecedented for Sept. Apparently, Climate Change super-charged El Nino.

NOAA's National Climate Center predicts the current Super El Nino to grow even stronger this winter and bring warmer temperatures and more snow to Kansas.

This amendment is apparently a political ploy by Kobach and Masterson as the constitution already says one must be a citizen to vote. The League of Women Voters says to vote "No". Here is their analysis: https://lwvk.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=588009&module_id=800768&fbclid=IwY2xjawUKr0lwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAGJyaWQRMVZiUThOU0lFTkkxcGFlWjZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeDEgSGuTIKXuRJywmz-Y2qG8qmqEPgDMWUjizQZCb4hzH-7XaRGllvQMTWnI_aem_fhvMerKG5z5qiUmMfZTqPA

This was reported in a column in the Lawrence Journal-World by a health advocate. He is urging the consideration of a moratorium on the number of vape shops. Many shops are illegally allowing those under 21 to vape. Is vaping harmful to the health of minors? Do KU students frequent these?

This is our sixth heat wave in eastern Kansas this summer and the current one is going to last until Weds. Sept. 9. Fortunately, it's not quite as humid and there is a breeze..

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I just learned that Good Energy Solutions recently donated and installed a 7.08 kW solar energy system that now offsets most of the school's monthly electricity costs. According to their newsletter, those savings can be put toward its mission of providing cooperative, interracial, low-cost preschool education to families in our community. 

Know a Douglas County nonprofit that deserves a free solar system from Good Energy Solutions? Nominate them for their 2026 Solar Giveaway!

 

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization has a database of sightings and it includes two in Douglas County including one at Clinton Lake by two fishers in Sept. 2025. Plus a Haskell Uni. student claims he saw one south of the campus near the wetlands in Oct. 2000. https://www.bfro.net/GDB/state_listing.asp?state=ks

A group of real Kansans will set out for the Great Bend area on Sept. 26 to search for signs of Sen. Roger Marshall. His address is listed as a PO box in Great Bend but he owns a small farmhouse on family land south of town in Stafford County. This eexpedition will be filmed and uploaded to social media. News media may also cover this. He is apparently selling his house in Sarasota, FL for $1.4 million.

The LPD has a contract with Axon which has a Fusus platform. "The Axon Fusus platform is a real-time public safety and intelligence tool. It links public and private security cameras, drone feeds, body-worn cameras, and data streams into a single cloud dashboard. Law enforcement and security teams use it to improve incident response and situational awareness." I suppose it is useful to recover stolen vehicles or track fleeing violent felons, but there are civil liberties concerns.

I always crack mine as I don't want it to be 130 F when I enter the car. I see that many drivers don't do this.

Democrats (and few Republicans) enacted our social safety net through the New Deal and Great Society:

NEW DEAL

**Social Security

**Minimum Wage

**Unemployment Insurance

***Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was implemented.

***Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) was enacted in 1956 under Eisenhower.

GREAT SOCIETY

The main components of the Great Society were:

**Medicare

**Medicaid

**Expanded Housing Programs-for low and moderate income households which included home ownership, public housing (including senior housing) and rent subsidies (Section 8).

**Mass transit

** SNAP (Food Stamps)

**Meals on Wheels (OlderAmericans Act)

***Supplemental Security Income (SSI) was established a little later in 1972

About 80% of Americans have never viewed the Milky Way. It's probably lower in Kansas but many in the Wichita and Kansas City areas haven't been awed by the Milky Way due to light pollution. One of the best places to stargaze on a moonless night is the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City. It's open 24/7.

Homes started getting window units in the 1960s and 1970s. Soon people started getting central air. Today about 80% of all households in the US have central air. It sure makes sleeping more comfortable.

A friend has become the executor of the estate of a cousin who wants to be buried with her dogs. My friend thinks that when she dies, he is supposed to put the dogs to sleep and bury them with her I'm not sure that is allowed or ethical. It would be better to let them die from natural causes, cremate them and put the ashes in her grave. What do people think?

Activists have succeeded in getting the Lawrence City Commission to adopt a two-year moratorium on data centers while regulations are adopted. A 200 MW hyperscale data center could consume 200 MW of power or about 40% of the power produced by Evergy's coal-fired Lawrence Energy Center. That size of a hyperscale data center using evaporative cooling consumes roughly 2.5 to 5 million gallons of water daily (up to 50% of average daily water consumption in Lawrence). Data centers are used for cryptocurrency blockchains, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud storage which appear to be expanding with no end in sight.

I've always wondered if there are undercover agents today in political organizations, protests, crowded bars, and large crowds. In 1968-1970 there were such agents from several agencies: LPD, KBI, FBI, and other federal agencies. Today there could also be agents from Homeland Security Investigations, etc.

LAWRENCE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE

We're launching a project to save one of Lawrence's most overlooked historic buildings.

The Walruff/Byrd Stable sits at the north end of Maine Street, the last building standing from a complex that housed two very different chapters of local history. From 1867 to 1887 it was part of the Walruff Brewery, built by a Prussian immigrant family that had a near-monopoly on beer in Lawrence until Kansas prohibition shut them down. Then in 1889, McCarter Byrd, a man born enslaved in North Carolina, leased the same buildings and built Kansas' only tannery. His family ran it for 50 years.

By 1964 everything but this stone stable was torn down. It's been sitting here since, with no real maintenance.

LPA has an agreement with the property's new owners, Niemann Investment Group, to lead a structural repair project and get the building listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places. The project costs $70,000, and the LPA Board voted to put every membership renewal and donation received through the end of 2026 into this fund.

If you're already a member, your renewal this year counts. If you're not, this is a good time to join.

Donate at https://lawrencepreservation.org/.

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