Freshmen lawmakers push tax hike to fund Kansas budget
A group of 16 freshmen legislators outlined a plan to raise sales and income taxes to cover a 254 million deficit in next year’s budget. They predict an ending balance of 168.4 million, 3.6 percent of expenditures, and argue the move protects welfare, health, and safety while opposing deeper cuts.
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Topeka
Bill Kassebaum
Burdick
Kathleen Sebelius
Kassebaum
Kansas
Baldwin City
Paul Davis
Lawrence
Band Aid plan to let districts spend local funds
Topeka lawmakers consider a one year fix allowing public schools to use capital outlay funds for computers utilities and insurance. Rep. Dean Newton Prairie Village calls it a Band Aid amid concerns it may widen disparities among state schools.
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Dean Newton
Prairie Village
Rocky Times
Deficit thwarts long running cloud seeding program in Kansas
Western Kansas Weather Modification Program enters its 29th year facing a $248,000 funding gap as Greeley Stevens and Gove counties opt out. The district plans deficit spending to cover operations while selling aircraft and equipment. The program aims to reduce hail and boost rainfall across western Kansas through cloud seeding and will operate through September 19 with support from 11 counties and groundwater districts in Scott City and Garden City.
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Greeley
Stevens
Gove
WKWMP
Western Kansas
No. 1
Keith Lebbin
Lebbin
Scott City
Garden City
HIPAA rules shift data access across health care
More than hospitals feel the HIPAA security lift as April 14 enforcement broadens patient information protections. Susan Rutter of St. Catherine Hospital describes changes from church-based binders to privacy focused care, noting clergy no longer access nonconsenting patient data.
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Susan Rutter
St. Catherine Hospital Mission Ministries
HIPAA
Rutter
Fallujah Protest Firefight Left 13 Dead 75 Wounded
US troops fired on a Fallujah crowd after some demonstrators shot at them with automatic weapons. A hospital director said 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 injured. One of Saddam Hussein's top advisers, Amer Mohammed Rashid, surrendered.
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Baghdad
Iraq
U.S
Saddam Hussein
Amer Mohammed Rashid
U.N
Saddam
Fallujah
Col
Arnold Bray
82Nd Airborne Division
U.S. Central Command
Alty
Eric Nantz
Aqil Khaleil
Bray
Ahmed Ghanim al-Ali
Fallujah General Hospital
Rashid
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