Kansas small meat firms push to lift interstate ban
A Kansas coalition led by farm groups seeks bills in Congress to end the federal ban on selling locally processed beef pork and poultry across state lines. Rep. Moran supports change to open markets and create rural jobs while noting safety upgrades have already pressured small plants to modernize.
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Polansky
Kansas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Kansas Livestock Association
House
Senate
Jerry Moran
Moran
Congress
Charlie Ingram
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
Schroeder
Canada
Mexico
Ingram
U.S.D.A
Tyson to close Boise beef plant and cut Pasco ops
Tyson Fresh Meats will shut its Boise Idaho slaughter plant, effective Oct 16, eliminating 270 Boise jobs and 500 Pasco positions. Pasco will run one slaughter shift and one processing shift, down from two, as Boise’s output of 1,600 cattle daily ends. Finney County plant remains active with 3,200 workers and open positions.
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Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc
Tyson Foods
Boise
Idaho
Pasco
Washington
Mickelson
Karkiainen
Finney County
Roberts cites immigration, energy, security in Kansas visit
Senator Roberts outlines top issues in Kansas including immigration reform, regional US CIS center in Garden City, and expansion of alternative energy with ethanol and biofuel plants. He warns immigration progress unlikely in 2006 but possible in 2007 and stresses national security beyond party politics.
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Kansas
Hispanos Unidos
Thome
Thorne
Roberts
Immigration and Citizenship Services
Garden City
China
India
U.S. Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Atlantic
Rosita Weber
Dormican Sisters
Prece and Hispanos Unidos
Eduardo Arellano
Pat Roberts
Plaza Inn
U.S
Libby barred from some classified docs in CIA leak case
U S District Judge Reggie Walton blocked ex White House aide I Lewis Libby from using an unspecified number of highly sensitive classified materials to aid his defense in the CIA leak case The ruling says the documents could harm national security while prosecutors and intelligence officials argued they would not help Libby in his obstruction of justice and lying trial slated for January
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Washington
Dick Cheney
CIA
White House
I. Lewis
Scooter
Libby
U.S
Reggie B. Walton
United States
Walton
Valerie Plame
Plame
Joseph Wilson
Nuss rebuked by ethics panel over talks with lawmakers
Justice Nuss received a formal rebuke from an ethics panel for discussing school finance legislation with Senate leaders. The panel found appearances of impropriety and questioned judicial independence, but did not punish him. Nuss and his lawyers declined comment.
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Nuss
Commission
Jennifer Jones
Salina
Senate
Steve Morris
Judicial Branch
Jones
Morris
Brungardt
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Charlie Roth
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
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R-Fowler
Jim Barnett
Emporia
Ernor
Josh Svaty
D-Ellsworth
Brungarat
Alan Boyles
Ben Boyles
Sepa Ea
Regan Jewelers
N. Main
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