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All Access - $30 for 6 Months Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Lock in your subscription rate and save! [LJWorld.com]( Back to School Special! All Access to LJWorld.com $30 for 6 months Just 17¢ per day! If you haven’t already, please consider supporting local journalism through a digital subscription to LJWorld.com. Subscriptions are the No. 1 source of revenue that supports our local journalists. Offer is open to anyone without a current subscription. Cancel anytime. [More Info]( [photo]( [Town Talk | Three questions as the City of Lawrence considers 2025 budget and tax increases]( When Lawrence city commissioners conduct the city’s 2025 budget hearing on Tuesday, most casual observers likely will have a single question: What’s it going to do to my taxes? [Read More]( [photo]( [Bishop Seabury teacher selected to participate in nationwide peace-building program]( An institute focused on supporting those who are working to build an inclusive world for peace has chosen a Bishop Seabury Academy educator to represent Kansas in its national program. [Read More]( [Image]( [From the air, Kansas Geological Survey researchers study aquifer conditions deep underground]( Researchers from the Kansas Geological Survey see distinctive circles in agricultural fields in central and western Kansas as indicators of one of the nation's most important water resources at work. [Read More]( [photo]( [Lawrence City Commission to hold public hearings on 2025 budget, consider affordable housing sales tax ballot question]( At Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, commissioners are expected to take the next steps toward approving the budget for 2025 — and possibly toward putting an affordable housing sales tax question on the November ballot. [Read More]( [Image]( [As advocates for homeless digest data from Douglas County point-in-time count, organizations use insights to plan outreach efforts]( As housing advocates reflect on data coming from the point-in-time homeless count from earlier in the year, they hope the snapshot of information, including questions about respondents’ origins, can help focus efforts for outreach and solve broader problems. [Read More]( [photo]( [Town Talk | Home sales bounce back in July after big drop in June; total sales now up nearly 4% for the year]( Even a small drop in mortgage interest rates helped fuel an increase in Lawrence home sales in July, according to the latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. [Read More]( [Facebook]( This message was sent by the Lawrence Journal-World. You are receiving this because at some point in the past you shared your email address with LJWorld.com To opt-out of emails like this, click the link below. [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Lawrence Journal-World PO Box 888, Lawrence, KS 66044