District considers bond plan details for new high school
USD 457 boards discusses alternative and virtual schools and a day treatment center while evaluating Piper Jaffray and Haas firms as financial advisers and DLR Group Gibson Mancini as architects. Fees hinge on bond success. land acquisition timing targets end of May with Realtors active near US 50 83 Bypass.
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John Haas
Ranson Financial Consultants
General Finance Company
Piper Jaffray
USD 308
Hutchinson
USD
Salina
USD 457
Haas
George K. Baum & Co
Wichita
Rick Atha
DLR Group
Gibson, Mancini, Carmichael and Nelson
Garden City
Atha
Kansas lobbying totals show ads far outpace reported spending
The lobbying fight over Holcomb coal plants features heavy spending on TV, radio and newspapers, with Know Your Power Kansas leading opponents at 443000 dollars. Sunflower utility backs supporters with over 110000 dollars and funds groups including Alliance for Sound Energy Policy. Lawmakers remain split, urging outside talks to settle the issue.
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Jeff Whitham
Garden City
Josh Swaty
Dellsworth
Svaty
Know Your Power
Kansas
Oklahoma
Chesapeake Energy
Holcomb
Sunflower
Hays
Alliance For Sound Energy Policy
Kansans For Affordable Energy
Peabody Energy
Roy Dixon
Whitham
World food costs rise amid global hunger and shortages
Jay Sjerven cites low wheat stocks worldwide and U S stock lows since 1947 48 as hunger pressures grow. Usnick notes 75 percent or more of income spent on food in developing countries and riots in Haiti Egypt and Pakistan with 30 more nations at risk. Jeffrey Burns warns price increases may trigger political instability.
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U.S
Jay Sjerven
United Nations Association
Kansas City
Sjerven
United States
Developing Countries
Usnick
Haiti
Egypt
Pakistan
Jeffrey Burns
Food For Peace
GCCC Ribbon Cutting for Campus Recycling Initiative
The Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce hosts a 12 15 p m ribbon cutting in the Beth Tedrow Student Center portico for a recycling container project on campus led by the GCCC Leadership Development class. The effort, funded by SGA, aims to place plastics and aluminum collection points across campus to promote Earth friendly choices and campus life improvement.
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Garden City Area
Rose
SGA
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Best Western Wheatlands
E. Fulton St
Holiday Inn Express
Wyatt Earp Blvd
Dodge City
Wharton’s
Garden Center
Earth
GCCC
Clarion Inn and Conference Center
Cebit
Mi Aes
Nesh
Carol
E. Kansas Ave
Jor
New York
Radio City Music Hall
Sherater
Manhattan
Times Square
Empire State Building
Rockefeller Center
Statue of Liberty
Southwest Kansans
Garden City Community College
Garden City Telegram
Ryan Peterson
Ryan.peterson
Geccks
Community College
Ante Elegram
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