Southwest Kansas group plans regional branding and immigrant worker concerns
Area officials from Garden City Dodge City and Liberal discuss including city county school districts and community colleges in a regional branding effort covering transportation education and legislative issues. They note immigrant labor impacts and potential expansion of Essential Air Service airports while praising retiring Garden City manager Halloran and noting casino proposals for Dodge City with construction possible by spring 2009.
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Small
Southwest Kansas
Garden City
Nancy Harness
Kansas
Oklahoma
Mesa
Jeff Thorpe
Boothill Gaming
Bob Wetmore
Dodge City
Thorpe
Halloran
Liberal
Students sing and sendoff for deploying Chamberlain
A gym filled with students, teachers Sally Sharp Jennie Wilson and Edith Scheuerman, and a chorus of recorder players performed a farewell program for Chamberlain before deployment. The ESL class sang Adios Mi Amigo, and the children offered a giant care package while Chamberlain urged students to stay focused and safe.
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Chamberlain
Sally Sharp
Jennie Wilson
Edith Scheuerman
Grassley backs aid for seniors and jobless in stimulus plan
Senate Republican Grassley backed Senator Baucus’s proposal to inject 196 billion into the economy over two years. The Finance Committee planned a vote with a bipartisan presentation, adding 35 billion to the House bill to aid seniors and the unemployed. The plan would cut rebates to 500 for individuals and 1,000 for couples and would reach checks to wealthier taxpayers barred by the House version.
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Senate
House
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Max Baucus
D-Mont
Grassley
Finance Committee
Kansas bills push for emissions limits on new plants
Legislature drafts landmark CO2 rules aimed at new utilities. Sen Janis Lee says the bills address environment and energy. Measures set strict emission targets for coal plants, tightening to 20 percent after one year and 30 percent after ten years.
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Sunflower
Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius
House
Senate Utilities Committee
Senate
Sen
Janis Lee
Kensington
Senate Committee
California
Florida
Hawaii
Kansas
Kansas Day lessons showcase wheat and other state products
Virgil presents to students as Taylor Pence learns hands on about butter from cream and bread at a Kansas Wheat Commission station. Melanie Eddy explains how Kent Eddy grows wheat for harvest and potential end products from cookies to cosmetics. Students explore cotton, buffalo uses, and Kansas weather benefits and risks.
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Virgil
Taylor Pence
Pence
Melanie Eddy
Kansas Wheat Commission
Eddy
Kent
Eddys
Kansas
Cierra Simmons
Eduardo Maya
Buffalo
Buffalo Range
Maya
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