Marketing key to success in Southwest Kansas summit
About 200 leaders from 28 counties met at Seward County Community College in Liberal for a five hour Prosperity Summit. Lt. Gov. John Moore urged regional economic development focusing on assets like agriculture, energy, education, manufacturing and quality of life. Organizers stressed regional collaboration over turf wars to grow jobs and sustain the Kansas economy.
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Southwest Kansas
Seward County Community College
Liberal
Commerce
John Moore
Kansas
Moore
Garden City
Dodge City
Donna Shank
Steve Irsik
Ingalls
City to pay less for health insurance next year
Garden City officials announced a roughly 12 percent drop in health insurance costs for city employees next year. Human Resources Director Jim Berry cautioned the decrease may be an anomaly amid rising industry costs and noted fewer plan participants contributed to the relief.
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Garden City
Jim Berry
Garden City Commission
Berry
Bombs Hit Najaf Mosque Killing Shiite Leader
A car bomb exploded at Imam Ali mosque in Najaf during prayers killing 75 people including Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al Hakim. The blast injured about 140 as rescue teams cleared rubble. US convoys faced separate attacks, one soldier killed and six wounded.
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Najaf Iraq
Imam Ali
Iraq
Najaf
Safaa al-Ameedi
Baghdad
Ayatollah
Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
Sadr
al-Hakim
Saddam Hussein
U.S
Murthada Saeed al-Hakim
Associated Press
Sculptor M T Liggett discusses Tin Man at Arts Center
Mullinville artist Myron Thomas known as M T Liggett shared thoughts on life and art at the Southwest Arts and Humanities Council Arts Center in Garden City Kansas. He demonstrated straw and mug sculpture to illustrate how simple junk can become grand forms. He described making large windmill pieces for western Kansas using no grant money.
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M.T. Liggett
Mullinville
Southwest Arts & Humanities Council
Artscenter
Garden City
Bird
Kansas
Myron Thomas
U.S. Highway 400
Dodge City
Monica Lewinsky
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