Farm bill talks loom as Moran pushes for aid and energy shifts
Moran says next week could decide a new farm bill with ethanol incentives and water-saving supports while addressing MTBE bans and rural aid. He cites hardships from a ConAgra fire and job losses, urging targeted aid, hospital funding tweaks, and a shift from oil dependence to domestic energy solutions.
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Garden City sees recovery after ConAgra fire
Local business leaders report gradual improvement following the ConAgra plant fire. Delinquencies return to prior levels, sales rise slowly, and unemployment falls to 4.4 percent in February. Garden City braces for growth with new hotels and an $86 million hospital expansion amid rising sales tax receipts and construction.
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Garden City
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Applebee’s
Comfort Inn
Staples
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Leader Consuelo Sandoval Joins Leadership Kansas Circle
Consuelo Sandoval selected for Leadership Kansas to join the governor's early childhood task force and the Kansas Minority Health Advocacy Committee. She and her husband Steve have one son. The program aims to prepare leaders across fields by exposing them to key state issues. classes run monthly for six months across several Kansas cities.
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Goodland
Emporia
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Topeka
Priest dies in car after abuse accusation in Ohio
In Hinckley Ohio a 48 year old Roman Catholic priest Rev Don A Rooney apparently shot himself in a pharmacy parking lot three days after a woman alleged he molested her as a girl in 1980 while at his first assignment in Wadsworth. The Cleveland Diocese declined further comment.
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Hinckley
Victoria Pisano
Rooney
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Parma
Robert Tayek
Wadsworth
Tayek
City Taxes On Gas Leases And Airport Property Grow
City taxes on non governmental land and airport leases totaled 2001 figures with gas royalty taxes at 3353 dollars and real estate taxes at 7161 dollars plus 1434 in district fees. City Manager Halloran notes airport tenants may pay taxes or lease adjustments may cover property tax bills, and new leases like FedEx would include tax provisions.
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Jennie Barker Road
Schulman Avenue
Garden City
Bob Halloran
Halloran
FedEx
Baby Abandoned at Day Care Center in Littleton
An infant left by his mother at the A-2-7 Learning Center in Littleton was turned over to the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services after the day care center closed with no one picking up the 3 1/2 month old. Police attempted to contact the mother using her listed home and emergency numbers.
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Colo
Arapahoe County
Department of Human Services
Jain
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