Earth Day at Lee Richardson Zoo educates local students
About 1,000 students from elementary to home schools visited the Lee Richardson Zoo for the 14th annual Earth Day event. A mix of 30 presentations taught ecology and conservation as performer Richard Renner wowed crowds with the Amazing Recycle Show, promoting reduce reuse and recycle.
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Garfield
Andrew Hunter
Richard Renner
Brad Nading
Trey Zorn
Zorn
Garfield Elementary
Enrique Guajardo
Mundo Ramirez
Sublette
Subsidies fail to boost rural growth in Kansas counties
A federal study by the Center for the Study of Rural America at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City finds billions in farm subsidies from 1992 to 2002 did little to spur rural economic growth. Counties receiving the most payments actually showed declines, according to author Mark Drabenstott.
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Center For the Study of Rural America
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Mark Drabenstott
Farm payments fail to spark growth in Kansas counties
Center director notes job gains are weak and population growth negative in many counties where farm payments dominate income. Kansas farm subsidies have surpassed 7 billion dollars since 1995, with 2003 totaling 807 million. Most western and northern counties ranked high for payments 2000 to 2002, yet rural areas mostly saw declines outside beef-packing regions.
Lawmakers weigh gambling as fix for budget hole
In Topeka Dodge City officials push for expanded legalized gambling at casinos and race tracks including a Dodge City project while legislators face a skeptical Supreme Court over the $127 million school finance plan and the fresh budget outlook.
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Topeka
Hns
Dodge City
Kansas lawmakers eyed gaming expansion after revenue outlook
Kansas legislators hear a gambling proposal amid bleaker projections. Stanton urged lawmakers to study the plan as education funding needs grow. Sen. Pete Brungardt of Salina chairs a 10 a.m. meeting to consider the proposal.
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Stanton
Pete Brungardt
R-Salina
Iraqi wheat officials join KSU grains program
Key officials from the Grain Board of Iraq attend Kansas State University’s international grains program to study the U S wheat marketing system. They aim to revive the long dormant trade with the United States after the Gulf War, marking the first Iraqi buyers’ U S visit since the conflict began.
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Wichita
Grain Board of Iraq
Kansas State University
International Grains
U.S
United States
Dawn Forsythe
US Wheat Associates
Iraq
Helicopter Shot Down North of Baghdad Kills Nine
A Bulgarian crew and six civilian contractors aboard a Mi-8 helicopter contracted by the U.S. Defense Department were killed when the aircraft was hit by missiles about 12 miles north of Baghdad. Video showed burning wreckage as officials confirmed the fatalities.
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Bulgaria
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