GCCC Endowment Auction Tops $180000 in Fundraiser
Garden City Community College reports a 38rd annual Endowment Association auction drawing a crowd of about 1150 at Finney County Fairgrounds. Preliminary totals show $180,749 gross for scholarships, with live and silent auctions, car raffle, and donations contributing to the final sum.
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Garden City Community Colleges
Endowment Association
GCCC
Pirate Cove
Finney County Fairgrounds
Association
Melinda Harrington
Mary Beth Williams
Garden City
Williams
Scott Auction
Japan vows quick action as water leak tests grow urgent
Japan fights to stabilize the Fukushima plant after a magnitude 9.0 quake. Workers race to cool reactors as tainted water pours into the ocean at levels far above legal limits. TEPCO says efforts to block the leak with improvised materials failed and cools measures are pursued.
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Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Co
Hidehiko Nishiyama
The
Nuclear Safety and Industrial Agency
Kansas House Republicans press budget cuts push
Kansas House Republicans push a $14 billion budget with pay-go rules to curb growth. They defend cuts as necessary to slow government expansion, while Democrats oppose further reductions. The debate highlights urban rural divides and potential impacts on Agriculture and state services.
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Topeka
Kansas House
Owen Donohoe
House
Mike O’neal
Hutchinson
Lance Kinzer
Kinzer
Statehouse
Rep
Anthony Brown
Eudora
Tom Burroughs
Kansas
Leslie Osterman
Wichita
GOP
Department of Agriculture
Sharon Schwartz
Washington
Appropriations Committee
Ann Mah
Senate
Government appeals U.S. judge health care ruling
The Justice Department has appealed Judge Vinson's ruling that invalidated the federal health care overhaul. The 62 page motion to the 11th Circuit argues Congress had authority to require health insurance and warns pre existing condition protections would be unworkable without minimum coverage. The dispute centers on penalties for uninsured individuals and broad questions likely to reach the Supreme Court.
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Atlanta
Justice Department
Obama
Congress
11Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Ing
U.S
Roger Vinson
Florida
Barack Obama
Vinson
Soning
Virginia
Supreme Court
Internal Revenue Service
Legislative Branch
Light turnout eyed for Kansas Tuesday voting day
Kansas voters prepare for city and school board elections on Tuesday with light expected turnout in Hutchinson and Reno County where polls run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Some areas face funding questions while others mix proposed tax changes and new mill levies across Satanta Cunningham Edwards County Greeley Kinsley Medicine Lodge and related districts.
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Kansas
Hutchinson
Reno County
Jenna Fager
Reno
Satanta
Kansas Department of Revenue
Charlotte Liebelt
Cunningham
Edwards County
Greeley County
County Board of Supervisors
Kinsley
Medicine Lodge
Usd 254
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Laquita Clark
Emmaus House
Dillons East
Kansas Ave
Garden City Rotary Club
Dillons
Clark
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