Downtown Vision weighs group health insurance option
Downtown Vision considers offering group health coverage to its members as a business entity rather than individuals. The plan, still preliminary, could gain board approval at the next meeting. If approved, steps include distributing health questionnaires and preparing quotes with deductibles of 500, 1000, and 1500 dollars.
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Downtown Vision
Dallas
Vision
Preferred Health
Wichita Independent Business Association
el Dorado and
Hesston Chambers of Commerce
Kansas Restaurant and Hospitality Association
Kinney
Michelle Mayo
Main
N. Main St
Ance
Glass
Schoonover
Lobby group spends 400000 on ads in Kansas energy fight
Know Your Power disclosed 400000 in advertising tied to a battle over Sunflower Electric permits for Holcomb plant expansions. The ads, supported by Chesapeake Energy, aim at influencing a state regulator’s decision and face pushes through the state Supreme Court and Legislature as ethics officials review disclosure rules and lobbyist definitions.
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Ily
Chesapeake Energy
Sunflower Electric
Holcomb
Health and Environment
Rod Bremby
State Supreme Court
Kansas
Know Your Power
State Governmental Ethics Commission
Vic Miller
Topeka
Bremby
Ethics Commission
Commission
Carol Williams
Williams
Kansans For Affordable Energy
Polit
Kansans Split Over Sunflower Plant as Legislation Emerges
Legislature eyes a bill amid debate over Sunflower Electric's two 700 megawatt coal plants denied by Rod Bremby for 11 million tons of carbon. Senate President Morris signals an indirect path via regulatory reform while critics urge delays and a shift to wind, geothermal, or solar. The Supreme Court appeal remains pending with a possible study on Kansas baseload needs and energy efficiency.
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Tee
Senate
Steve Morris
Utilities Committee
Morris
Sunflower
Kansas Health and Environment
Rod Bremby
Bremby
Topeka
Annie Kuether
House Energy Panel
Supreme Court
Kuether
Holmes
Kansas Energy Council
Kansas
Ical Action Committee
Peabody Investments Corp
Kansans For Affordable Energy
Garden City
Bob Kreutzer
Roy Dixon
Sunflower Electric
Georgia Matthews Elementary Goes Green With Reuse Drive
Georgia Matthews Elementary launches eco program urging reuse bags and recycling. Students and staff swap incandescent bulbs for ENERGY STAR compact fluorescents, collect 100 coins for panther habitat at Lee Richardson Zoo, and compete to gather aluminum cans. Community urged to join will call 276-5255.
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Dillons
Energy Star
Georgia Matthews Elementary
E. Johnson St
Lee Richardson Zoo
US. Environmental Protection Agency
US. Department of Energy
Brianna Rowland
Thompson
Georgia Matthews
Kline questions Planned Parenthood record alterations
Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline questioned whether Planned Parenthood altered patient records before turning them over to a judge in a prior criminal probe. He sought to disqualify two Planned Parenthood lawyers, Pedro Iriganegaray and Robert Eye, but Judge Stephen R. Tatum denied the motion.
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Clathe
Johnson County
Phill Kline
Planned Parenthood
Kline
Kansas
Mid-Missouri
Pedro Iriganegaray
Robert Eye
Stephen R. Tatum
GOP split over gambling funded bond payments in Kansas
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius proposes using more than 57 million dollars in gambling revenue to pay bonds, including 10 million for Statehouse renovations. Republicans caution that relying on year to year gambling income may not be reliable and push a debt affordability study while health officials celebrate KSWebIZ reaching one million registrations. Senate and House GOP agendas focus on debt, taxes, energy, and education with no tax-cut proposals.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius
Kansas City
Frontenac
Melvin Neufeld
Neufeld
Senate Commerce Committee
Karin Brownlee
GOP
Brownlee
Duane Goossen
Goossen
Senate
Majority
Derek Schmidt
Schmidt
House
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King Jr
Judge requires Schneiders prove funds for own counsel
A federal judge set a March 3 hearing on a motion to revoke court-appointed counsel for Stephen Schneider of Haysville and his wife Linda Schneider a nurse. The 34 count indictment accuses them of conspiracy drug distribution health care fraud illegal monetary transactions and money laundering. They plead not guilty. Prosecutors say they have about 690000 in clean assets to pay private counsel.
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Wichita
Haysville
Donald Bostwick
Stephen Schneider
Linda Schneider
Schneiders
U.S
Tanya Treadway
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Ray B. Leidich
M.D
F.A.C.S
Joe D. Foust
RPA
Creighton University School of Medicine
Omaha
Southwer
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX
Naval Medical Center
Oakland
M.D. Jefferson Medical College
Thomas Jeffes
N. Kansas
Joe D. Foust, Rpa
Rostate Gran
American Board of Urology
American College of Surgeons
AUA
Naval Regional Medical Center
Medicare, Medicaid
BC/BS
Frontview
Dodge City
10Th St. Great Bend
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