Kansas Governor Cuts School Aid Amid Budget Moves
Gov. Mark Parkinson announced $160 million in adjustments to balance Kansas's budget for fiscal 2010, with $39 million cut to public schools increasing base state aid losses to 62 per student across 293 districts. Higher education faces a 2 percent cut, while highway maintenance funds are reduced by 30 million, pending legislative approval in January.
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Topeka
Mark Parkinson
Kansas
Parkinson
GOP
House
Appropriations Committee
Kevin Yoder
Governor's Office
Department of Transportation
Parkinson's Administration
Heart Center opens at St Catherine Hospital Monday
St. Catherine Hospital prepares to cut its Wichita transfers by opening the Heart Center at St Catherine Hospital on Monday. The new center brings interventional cardiology including catheterizations, angioplasty and stent placement, echo tests and pacemaker treatment to Garden City, in partnership with Cardiovascular Consultants of Kansas, the owner of Kansas Heart Hospital.
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Julie Vines
St. Catherine Hospital
New Heart Center
Kansas Heart Hospital
Vines
Heart Center
St. Catherine
Wichita
Garden City Hospital
Scott Taylor
Janie Wimmer
Garden City
John Ferrell
Taylor
Cardiovascular Consultants of Kansas
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Kansas
Ferrell
Garden City teachers approve 2009-10 contract tally 174 to 118
Garden City educators voted to approve the 2009-10 contract with 174 in favor and 118 against. Final tally reached about 5 p.m. Thursday after extended voting from Tuesday due to uneven turnout. The district employs over 600 teachers and cites summer timing as a factor in low participation.
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Garden City
Roy Cessna
Cessna
GCEA
USD 457
Opposition to Sunflower expansion lingers at Kansas hearings
Finney County Economic Development Corp. president Eric Dopperschmidt notes continued opposition to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. plans. Public input on emissions helped the Kansas Department of Health and Environment deny the prior air quality permit in 2007, with a renewed permit request after a May compromise brokered by Gov. Parkinson.
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University of Kansas
Lawrence
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Holcomb
Sunflower
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Eric Dopperschmidt
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Kansas
Mark Parkinson
William Rice
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Hays
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