Ask Your Legislator airs Sunday on Kansas public TV
Gay marriage death penalty education funding and other major issues are on the agenda for this week’s edition of Ask Your Legislator broadcast statewide at 5 p.m. Sunday on Kansas public television. The hour long program, produced by KPTS Wichita, lets viewers speak with a panel of Kansas legislators and is also carried by KTWU Topeka and Smoky Hills Public Television serving central and western Kansas. Viewers may call 877 491 5787 or email ASK kpts.org with questions. Phone volunteers from Wichita Independent Neighborhoods handle calls and route them to the studio. Scheduled to appear include State Senate President Steve Morris R Hugoton State Rep Clark Schulz R Lindsborg House Insurance Committee Chair State Rep Eber Phelps D Hays minority whip and State Rep Jim Ward D Wichita assistant minority leader.
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Kansas Public Television
KPTS
Wichita
Kansas
KTWU
Topeka
Smoky Hills
Kpts.org
Wichita Independent Neighborhoods
State Senate
Steve Morris
R. Hugoton
Clark Schulz
R-Lindsborg
House Insurance Committee
Eber Phelps
Dhays
Jim Ward
D-Wichita
Pawnee Fry Event Monday Night in Finney County
The 2005 Annual Pawnee Fry is set for Monday at the Pawnee Acre Community Building, four miles north and three east of the US 156 and K 23 junction. Dinner at 6 30 p.m. costs 7 dollars and includes calf fries and ham sandwiches, followed by an educational NAIS program led by K-State Extension specialists Ron Hale and Troy Dumler.
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Pawnee
Pawnee Acre
Finney County
Ron Hale
Troy Dumler
Finney County Extension Office
Larry Scott
Garden City Fiddlers Meet at Senior Center Saturday Evening
The Garden City Country Western Fiddlers Pickers and Singers meet at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Senior Center 907 N 10th St a carry in supper at 6 30 p m and the evening program at 7 30 p m area musicians and the public are welcome with no admission charge call 276 6962 for more information
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N. 10Th St
Sisters plead guilty to passport fraud
Beatriz Estrella and Selene Estrella, Mexican sisters living in City, pleaded guilty to federal charges for using fake birth certificates to obtain U.S. passports. Judge Wesley Brown gave time served with deportation, and they will return to Mexico in about two weeks. Estela Valverde, a Social Security employee in Dodge City, faces seven federal counts for allegedly aiding the sisters' scheme.
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Wichita
U.S
Beatriz Estrella
Selene Estrella
Wesley Brown
Eric Melgren
Mexico
Estela Valverde
Social Security Administration
Dodge City
Kansas panel blocks evolution teaching changes
A Salina AP report notes a Kansas committee revising science standards rejected moves to expand criticism of evolution. Conservative board members worry about teaching creationism or intelligent design alongside evolution amid four public hearings planned for February and a review by the State Board in April.
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Salina
State Board of Education
Jack Krebs
Oskaloosa
Rick Reeser
St. Francis
Kansas
State Board
Georgia
Atlanta
Pennsylvania
Dover
John Calvert
Intelligent Design Network
Krebs
Firehouse expansion to add space for equipment in Deerfield
Kearny County plans a roughly 1500 square foot addition to the Deerfield firehouse to house an EMS ambulance and a fire and rescue vehicle. The bid from Emergency Fire Equipment of Mayfield for 185347 dollars was accepted, with grant funding eyed as a payment option.
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Midwest Energy
Jack Minton
Kearny County
Kearny County Fire and Rescue Firehouse
Deerfield
Larry D. Combs
Combs
Commission
Dunlap
Scott Harris
EMS
Lakin
Harris
Emergency Fire Equipment
Mayfield
Margaret Schneider
Kansas Bill Eases County Mergers To Local Vote Changes
A Kansas bill would ease voluntary county mergers by letting two or more counties adopt a boundary change by resolution with majority county approval or petition 5 percent voters for a public vote, enabling easier local government consolidation while avoiding state mandates. Leaders praise local discretion and tax savings potential.
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Topeka
Hns
Kansas
Kansas Advisory Council On Intergovernmental Relations
House
Dennis McKinney
Greensburg
Kansans
McKinney
Kansas Association of Counties
Mark Taddiken
R Clifton
Church led 2004 as top local building year in Garden City
A Finney County study shows 2004 total construction in Garden City at just over 14 million, dominated by church projects. Major 2004 builds included Church of Nazarene on Campus Drive and Bible Christian Church Family Life Center, with Holcomb seeing notable gains while overall permits reflect a stable, cautious market.
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Church of Stae Nazarene
Campus Drive
Family Life
E. Mary St
Bible Christian Church
Community Congregational Church
N. Third St
Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Kaleb Kentner
Garden City
Finney County
Holcomb Construction
Holcomb
Gibson’s Discount Center
St. Catherine Hospital Cancer Center
Kansas Department of Transportation
Home Depot
St. Catherine Hospital
Kentner
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
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Deerfield News
Schneider
Bill
Senate
Hugoton
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