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Forecaster: Tyler Wieland.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Friday
HI: 80
L0: 47
Mostly sunny skies.
Northwest wind 12
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Enjoy the last day of summer!
Saturday
HI: 68
LO: 39
Cooler weather for the first day of Au tumn. Northwest winds at 14 mph.
Happy fall!
Sunday
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HI: 69
LO: 45
Northwest wind at 5 mph.
Time for scarf weather?
CALENDAR
Thursday, September 20
**WHAT:** Tea at Three
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Level 4 Lobby
**WHEN:** 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Enjoy free tea, punch and cookies in the Union.
**WHAT:** Voter Registration Drive
**WHERE:** Kansas Union
**WHEN:** 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Every Thursday and Friday through Oct 26, SUA will have a table providing voter registration forms and information.
WHAT: Read Across Lawrence: Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday, September 21
ABOUT: Jon Lawrence community members for a discussion with Nick Reding, author of this New York Times best seller Methland about meth abuse in a small Midwestern town.
WHAT: Twenty Minutes into the Future
WHERE: Spencer Museum of Art auditorium, 309
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Architect Henry Smith-Miller will talk about his studio and avant-garde architecture.
WHAT: Voter Registration Drive
WHAT: Voter Registration Drive
WHERE: Kansas Union
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Every Thursday and Friday through Oct 26, SUA will have a table providing voter registration forms and information.
**WHAT:** Soccer vs. Oklahoma State
**WHERE:** Jayhawk Soccer Complex
**WHEN:** 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Watch the Jayhawks match with the Cowboys.
Saturday, September 22
**WHAT:** The Intergalactic Nemesis,
Book 1: Target Earth
**WHERE:** Lied Center
**WHEN:** 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
**ABOUT:** The Lied Center presents the first half of a live-action graphic novel. Journalists Molly Sloan and Timmy Mendez discover an impending invasion of sludge monsters from the planet Zygon. Three actors, sound-effects artists and a pianist use over 1,000 hand drawn images to tell the story.
WHAT: The Intergalactic Nemesis,
Book 2: Robot Planet Rising
WHERE: Lied Center
WHEN: 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
ABOUT: In the second half of the
live-action graphic novel, Molly must
rescue a robot emissary and Timmy
has telekinetic powers.
Sunday, September 23
WHAT: Campaign 2012 with Eleanor Clift
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
WEN: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Listen as journalist and television
puntit Eleanor Clift is interviewed about
the 2012 election.
WHAT: Bowl to Benefit UNITED WAY of Douglas County
Douglas County
WHERE: 901 S Iowa Street
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Enjoy bowling while supporting a local cause. $10 buys 2 games of bowling and shoes.
WHAT: Scary Larry Kansas Bike Polo
WHAT: Scary Larry Kansas Bike Polo
WHERE: Edgewood Park, Maple Lane and Miller Drive
WHEN: 7 p.m.
ABOUT: Watch the local bike polo group compete. Bring your own bike if you want to join in.
POLITICS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets in his vehicle as he arrives at Love Field in Dallas on Tuesday, Sept. 18.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama waves as he arrives on Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday, Sept. 18, in New York.
Poll reveals Romney slipping
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON— Still sour on the state of the U.S. economy, Americans are nonetheless heading into the home stretch to Election Day feeling better about the country's future and about how President Barack Obama is doing his job, a new Associated Press-GFK poll shows.
Republican rival Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has lost his pre-convention edge on the economy amid a flurry of distractions that have taken him on a detour from the central message of his campaign.
For all of that, neither candidate has managed to break away in the drum-tight presidential race.
Obama is supported by 47 percent
of likely voters and Romney by 46 percent, according to the poll. The survey was ending just as word surfaced of Romney's caught-on-tape comment that he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of people who pay no income taxes, describing them as believing they are victims and dependent on government.
That gap virtually vanishes among likely voters, promising an all-out fight to gin up enthusiasm among core supporters and dominate
The poll results vividly underscore the importance that turnout will play in determining the victor in Campaign 2012. Among all adults, Obama has a commanding lead, favored by 52 percent of Americans to just 37 percent for Romney.
get-out-the-vote operations. That's an area where Obama claimed a strong advantage in 2008 and Republicans reigned four years earlier.
The poll gives both sides reason for hope:
—Romney is beckoning to voters unhappy with Obama's handling of the economy, and there is plenty of grim sentiment in the survey. Sixty-five percent of likely voters think the economy is worse off or no better than four years ago, 57 percent don't expect unemployment to ease in the next year and 39 percent don't expect the economy to get any better in the next 12 months.
—Obama, for his part, can take encouragement from other findings. His approval rating is back above 50 percent for the first time since May, and the share of Americans who think the country is moving in the right/direction is at its highest level since just after the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011. And on the economy, 49 percent of adults think things will get better in the next year, up from 41 percent before the conventions.
economy or the federal budget deficit, but Obama has narrow advantages on protecting the country, social issues and health care.
L'Tonya Ford, a 42-year-old Democrat from Detroit, said that progress on the economy has been slower than shed like but that all signs point to Romney making things worse.
Obama's "trying to do something," she says. "Give him four more years and let him do what he doing."
Sixty-eight-year-old Vicki Deakins, a Republican sizing up the race from Garland, Texas, is a solid Romney supporter, but she exudes more enthusiasm for GOP running mate Paul Ryan than for Romney himself.
"I don't know that Romney knows how to state emphatically, with fire and passion and guts and all that other stuff, what he wants to do," she says. "I don't think he'll be a great orator. But I do think he'll get the job done."
HOW MUCH IS ONE BEER REALLY WORTH?
- A 21-year-old Kansas City, Mo. man was arrested Wednesday at 4:11 a.m. in the 1000 block of East 1500 Road on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance. Bond was set at $1,250. He was released.
The two candidates run about even among likely voters in the poll on who would best handle the
Information based on the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap and KU Office of Public Safety crime reports.
Americans have been increasingly focused on the presidential race since the summer conventions: Nearly three-fourths of adults say they're paying close attention now, up modestly from earlier in the summer.
- A 47-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the 2400 block of Ridge Road on suspicion of domestic battery. Bond was set at $500. He was released.
- A 37-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 10:40 p.m. in the 1500 block of North 1550 Road on suspicion of burglarizing a vehicle, theft of property or services less than $500 and criminal use of a financial card. Bond was set at $7,500.
- A 55-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Monday at 4:05 p.m. in the 3600 block of East 25th Street on suspicion of burglarizing a vehicle, criminal use of a financial card and theft of property or services less than $1,000. Bond was set at $1,500. He was released.
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20 Hours of community service.
Drivers License year suspension.
Loss of all scholarships.
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