Treat your sweetheart to a getaway! Come enjoy these luxury suites in historic downtown Lawrence and the amazing food at TEN restaurant.
$115 per room per night
Includes complimentary
valet parking and $5
coupon for TEN
Valid Feb. 2009
Sunday-Thursday only
Call (785) 749-5011 or (800) 527-0909 Mention "Suite Deal" when making reservations
Run of house, tax not included
Subject to availability
Valid for dates only, not available
when booking online
To e-mail your U.S. representatives, go to http://witerep.house.gov. This site will direct you to a representative's contact page, which should have a link to his or her e-mail.
If you think writing to a representative involves a stamp, you have been politically inactive for far too long. Molly Sailors, student senator, says voting is only a step toward action. To be politically active, you must take that next step in reminding elected officials of who they represent.
To e-mail either of your two U.S. senators, go to www.senate.gov and click on senators.The senators are listed in alphabetical order by last name. Select a senator; and then look for the contact link.
Sailors is familiar with the process. She most recently wrote to U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas). She now takes a class in social welfare that covers how to write to representatives. Her tips for sending a more effective message are to be brief (a couple of paragraphs), clear (use no abbreviations), polite and specific (cite an actual bill). Above all, she says, state support or opposition for an issue in the first sentence.
Feel too uninformed to write? To contact representatives and get informed all in one step.
Write your representatives
Yes YOU Can: Take political matters into your own hands by e-mailing your representatives.
sign up for "Congress.org To Go." The website www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote allows you to sign up for alerts about upcoming votes and provides its own links for sending e-mails to the representatives.
— Katherine Mulder
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February 19,2009