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On the governor’s agenda
Here’s a quick look at changes Gov. Sam Brownback plans to pursue in the legislative session that starts Monday.
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Kansas GOP presidential caucus to have full slate
Kansas Republican presidential caucus participants should see a full ballot March 10.
Brownback doesn’t plan to address new gambling vote in legislative session
Gov. Sam Brownback says the legislature shouldn’t try to tackle gambling during the 2012 legislative session because it has too many other heavy issues to deal with.
Love of the land connects Kansans
“The high plains at first gave him an overpowering impression of emptiness. Never before had he beheld such a sky — the cosmic vault of blue appeared to occupy a good three-fourths of the world, making small and unimportant the scattered farm houses with their meager clumps of ragged trees and inevitable windmills. But though the vastness at first oppressed him, eventually it distilled in him a sensation of fetterless freedom which he grew to love almost jubilantly.”
Retirement plans for state’s hires may change
Future employees in the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System and those who aren’t vested by July 2013 would have 401K-style investments that grow and shrink with the markets under a plan recommended by the KPERS Study Commission on Tuesday.
With Kansas speech, Obama to follow in Roosevelt’s footsteps
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” encouraging President Obama to be more like Teddy Roosevelt and initiate a re-election effort aimed at rekindling the “Square Deal.”
Study: Amtrak service from Kansas City to Texas would take a long time, cost a lot
Passenger rail service from Kansas City to Texas faces a long, expensive and uncertain track, according to a study released Thursday.
Moran, Roberts file bill to allow state inspection of natural gas storage
Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran have filed a bill in Congress to restore state authority to oversee the safety of facilities that store natural gas in underground caverns, in an effort to prevent potentially deadly explosions like the ones that rocked Hutchinson 10 years ago.
Kansas highway projects announced
Grants for projects to improve segments of state highways within more than a dozen Kansas communities have been announced by the Kansas Department of Transportation, including projects inside Lyons, Newton, Garden City and Jetmore.
Health insurance costs rising more slowly
Health insurance premiums for next year are still rising, but the rate of increase may be starting to slow, according to experts in the insurance field.
Modern houses go up in flames faster
If a fire breaks out at your house, even if the smoke alarm alerts you, don't count on more than three minutes to escape, fire officials say. And you might have less time before the gases overcome you, said Bob McLemore, Colby fire chief and president of the Kansas State Association of Fire Chiefs.
Military service: A Kansas tradition
Walk into almost any cemetery in Kansas and look at the number of veterans' graves dotting the landscape.
Relatives speak on missing-baby case
KANSAS CITY -- He can't sleep. He has trouble focusing his thoughts or quieting roiling emotions after each news story about his missing granddaughter.
Tornado chasers show off vehicle at Cosmosphere
HUTCHINSON — Seeing a Chevy Camaro pull out of the parking lot of the Kansas Cosmosphere, Sean Casey said that ideally he'd take a low-to-the-ground car like that and turn it into a tornado interceptor. But, he said a bit ruefully, there'd be no place to put all the equipment, including the quarter-million-dollar IMAS camera he takes while chasing tornadoes all over the country for the Discovery Channel.
Iowa, Nebraska leave Missouri River association
LINCOLN, Neb. —Iowa and Nebraska are withdrawing from an association of Missouri River states and tribes because of a dispute over how to manage the river, which flooded large parts of both states last summer.
Rally today seeks end to death penalty
Jeremy Schroeder said the most surprising result of Illinois abolishing the death penalty was how quickly the state saw an impact.
Ex-public official, wife indicted
The former public works director for Barber County and his wife face federal indictment on charges that they diverted vehicle purchases from the county to a private company and sold them for cash.
State's new forecast for revenue is rosier
TOPEKA — Kansas officials and economists issued a new, more optimistic fiscal forecast for the state Friday, predicting that tax revenue will grow by almost 5 percent during the next budget year.
Cosmosphere hosts 'Storm Chaser' star
His tornado intercept vehicle is equipped with composite armor, steel and bullet-proof glass.
No decision yet on possible hate crime
COUNCIL GROVE — The U.S. attorney's office said Thursday it had not determined whether the case of a black man being doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire was racially motivated, but the suspect's attorney said he doubted the case constitutes a federal hate crime.
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