County to debate using incentives for Tek Vet move
Finney County commissioners will consider redirecting 2011 economic development funds to cover city approved cash incentives for Tek Vet Technologies, a Florida based livestock health systems maker relocating to Garden City near the regional airport. The plan includes 25 000 cash and 1000 per new job up to 60, with potential 60 jobs first year. The 2011 budget lists 125 000 for incentives. Meeting 8 30 a.m. Monday at the Finney County Administrative Center.
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Tek Vet Technologies Co
Garden City
Animal Science Research
Randy Partington
Finney County Administrative Center
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Gctelegram.com
Holcomb board to discuss district technology plan
Holcomb USD 363 board members will hear a three year technology plan from Randy Ackerman and consider adding technology staff as needs grow. The board will review purchasing two vehicles for driver education and transport to trainings and events, plus handheld radios for inter building communication. Meeting begins 6 30 at the board of education office 305 Wiley Street Holcomb.
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Holcomb
Demitry Evancho
Randy Ackerman
Evancho
Board of Education
Wiley St
Manhattan Considers Ordinance Banning Sexual Orientation Bias
Manhattan City Commission approved first reading of an ordinance outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity after almost two hours of public comment. The measure, passed 3-2, moves to a second reading amid possible staff revisions. crowd overflow attended the debate with landlords ministers students and others voicing opinions.
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KMAN
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KU Med half way to goal for Wichita campus
The University of Kansas Medical Center has raised more than half the $5 million needed to expand its Wichita campus. Dean David Wilson reports $2.7 million raised, with $800,000 donated by the Kansas Health Foundation to create a four year program. The effort aims to ease Kansas doctor shortages, especially rural areas, and currently 150 third and fourth year students train with initial Kansas City, Kansas, rotations. The first eight four year students start in Wichita next fall.
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Wichita
University of Kansas Medical Center
David Wilson
The
Kansas Health Foundation
Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
Eisenhower’s farewell drafts illuminate military complex term
Abilene AP reports newly released drafts show Eisenhower and aides spent two years shaping his farewell address. The papers reveal the origin of military industrial complex wording, its persistence through revisions, and Ike's broader worries about Cold War defense spending and world peace.
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Abilene
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Malcolm Moos
Ralph Williams
Valoise Armstrong
Moos
Grant
Minnesota
Karl Weissenbach
David Nichols
America
Nichols
Congress
Oval Office
St Catherine Hospital fundraiser raises funds for Benincasa
A Christmas tree auction at St. Catherine Hospital featured 22 hand carved stone crosses and a book of Bible verses. The event, in its sixth year, raised 2762 dollars plus a 500 dollar donation, supporting Benincasa home for patients and families.
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Tracy Henry
St. Catherine Hospital
Biomedical
St. Catherine’s
Benincasa
Henry
N. Sixth St
Shari Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brownback taps Garcia and Tafanelli for public safety posts
Governor elect Sam Brownback named Ernest Garcia a federal official as Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent and Dennis Tafanelli a Kansas National Guard colonel as adjutant general. Garcia, 64, a former Reagan aide and Dole staffer, will be the first Hispanic patrol chief. Tafanelli, 49, from Ozawkie, has served in the Kansas House since 2001 and led an Iraq deployment. Both are Republicans and expected to be Senate-confirmed.
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Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas
Kansas National Guard
Brownback
Ernest Garcia
US Selective Service System
Garden City
Garcia
U.S. Senate
Ronald Reagan
Bob Dole
Wichita
Tafanelli
Ozawkie
Kansas House
Iraq
Kansas Senate
Highway Patrol
Statehouse
America
Patrol
Terry Maple
Ted Bunting
Mark Parkinson
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