Bioscience Authority moves toward private market shift
The Kansas Bioscience Authority voted December 18 to privatize in 2016, with CEO change as Duane Cantrell resigns effective January 1 and Kevin Lockett named interim leader. The agency, created in 2004 to spur bioscience in Kansas, faced budget cuts and a damaging 2012 audit, yet its portfolio reportedly grew under active management.
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TNS
Kansas Bioscience Authority
Kansas
Authority
Duane Cantrell
Kevin Lockett
KU Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute
Manhattan
Sam Brownback
Tom Thornton
Lockett
KBA
Bioscience
Garden City Set to Pick Date for Annual Goal Retreat
The Garden City Commission will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the City Administrative Center to set the date for the annual goal setting retreat, approve destruction of records from 2010 and earlier, review an employment agreement with City Manager Matt Allen for 2016, and appoint members to the Golf Advisory Board, Police Citizens Advisory Board and the 25th Judicial District Community Corrections board. At 11 a.m. an informational pre-meeting will interview candidates for city representation on the Finney County Economic Development Corp board. The meeting is open to the public.
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Garden City Commission
Eighth St
Commission
Kansas
Matt Allen
Golf Advisory Board
Police Citizens Advisory Board
25Th Judicial District Community Corrections Board
City Commission
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Finney County to review CIP policy and boards
The Finney County Commission will meet at 8 30 a m Monday at the County Administrative Center 311 N Ninth St The agenda includes motor grader bids a review of the capital improvement program policy and appointments to the Community Corrections Advisory Board and the Finney County Committee on Aging.
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Finney County Commission
Ninth St
Community Corrections Advisory Board
Finney County Committee On Aging
Lawmakers weigh reducing KanCare drug costs with penalties
A KanCare oversight panel tentatively backed draft recommendations to slow rising drug costs in Kansas Medicaid. The most controversial proposal would withhold expensive hepatitis C treatments from noncompliant patients, a plan criticized as death sentences by Democrats. The panel also supports step therapy by private managers, and KCHE would report on overprescribing behavioral health drugs, especially antipsychotics for children and dementia patients.
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Kansas
Sen
Jim Denning
Overland Park
Denning
KanCare
KDHE
Laura Kelly
Topeka
Mary Pilcher-Cook
KCHE
Kansas anti gay discrimination bill to get hearing in early session
Kansas lawmakers will hear HB 2323 in the first week of the 2016 session. Rep. John Carmichael and Rep. John Barker push adding sexual orientation and gender identity to protections, aiming to bar firing or eviction for LGBT status. Supporters note federal law gaps and cite state groups urging equal protection while opponents warn of religious liberty impacts.
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John Carmichael
Wichita
Sam Brownback
Kathleen Sebelius
House
John Barker
Abilene
Carmichael
Barker
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Tom Witt
Equality Kansas
Witt
Brownback
Kansas Family Policy Council
Steve Brunk
R-Wichita
Terry Fox
Summit Church
Fox
Republican Party
Legislative Post-Audit Committee
Kansas Department For Children and Families
DCF
Sebelius
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