Concealed Carry Class Offered At GCCC In Sand and Sage Effort
The Kansas Concealed Carry course at Garden City Community College runs as a one day eight hour program to meet state law requirements. Offered five times from August through December at 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the John Collins Vocational Building, the class costs 125 and preregistration is required.
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Kansas Attorney General’s
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Topeka Opens SSA Office Amid Disability Claims Backlog
Social Security Administration opens a Topeka office with five judges and 25 staff to handle disability benefit claims. Commissioner Michael Astrue notes long waits at Kansas City, Omaha, and Springfield, but reports processing times improving in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, citing hearings dropping from 516 to 438 days.
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Utility selects path for line to Kansas
Minden Nebraska AP Nebraska Public Power District plans to seek access soon to land along a new 225 mile transmission line route from Axtell Nebraska to the Kansas state line. The project totals 87 million dollars with a 53 mile Nebraska stretch approved by the Power Review Board and a 89 mile Kansas phase approved earlier. ITC Great Plains is building the Kansas section with Sunflower Electric and Midwest Energy as maintainers.
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Immigration issue fuels Kansas secretary of state race
In Kansas the Republican primary centers on Kris Kobach a law professor who helped craft Arizona immigration law He ties the issue to voter fraud and would devote time to immigration if elected Also contest includes Brownback steineger biggs and Claeys with photo ID and first time citizenship proof proposals Kobach seeks full time effort while opponents press for pledges and criticize his stance Biggs faces Steineger in Democratic contest Holland runs for governor in a single Democratic ticket with others choosing party\n
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Junction City
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Shawnee County
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J.R. Claeys
Salina
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Ron Thornburgh
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Joan Heffington
Derby
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Heffington
Tom Holland
Baldwin City
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Greensburg
Ron Estes
Wichita
Sedgwick County
Moran stays out of 1st District race in GOP field
U S Representative Jerry Moran declines to endorse any candidate as six Republicans vie for the 1st District GOP nomination. Moran’s allies and former staffers back different contenders while Moran maintains neutrality. State Senator Susan Wagle endorsed Huelskamp, citing a need for fighters in Washington. Secretary of State election rules alert voters to no electioneering near polling places.
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County approves annexation plan for Garden City area
County commissioners unanimously approved a skip annexation request by Cecil O Brate at the northwest corner of East Mary Street and a not yet relocated Jennie Barker Road seeking city annexation for retail development. Planning Director Kaleb Kentner warned the move could create an isolated parcel hindering surrounding growth. The project ties to a K 156/ Mary Street Jennie Barker Road realignment and four lane build set to begin late fall.
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Kansas
Kansas Chief Justice Davis retires from Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas Chief Justice Robert Davis retires citing health concerns effective immediately. Davis, 70, notified Gov. Parkinson and will be replaced by Justice Lawton Nuss who will lead a seven member court as a nominating commission proposes three candidates. Davis’s career spans 1998 appointment to the Supreme Court, prior service as Leavenworth County attorney, district judge, and service in the JAG Corps including Korea and Washington, D.C.
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