Regents approve Kansas university tuition increases
Kansas Board of Regents approved fall tuition hikes across six state universities, generating about 26 million more in revenue. In-state increases range from 4 to 6.9 percent, with KU facing 7.4 percent for some nonresident undergraduates. KU also expands needs-based grants by 400,000 while maintaining a tuition freeze for some four-year graduation pledge students.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Board of Regents
Dan Lykins
Emporia State
Kansas State
Fort Hays State
Christine Downey- Schmidt
Inman
Downey-Schmidt
Regents
Ed McKechnie
Arcadia
Sam Brownback
McKechnie
University of Kansas
Bernadette Gray-Little
Wichita State
Tyson plant knife incident death prompts investigation
Tyson Foods officials say a quality assurance worker died after being cut by a co-worker at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Garden City. EMS response times and ambulance details are described, with authorities continuing to investigate and no further comments from Tyson. The worker, Muniz, lived in Garden City and leaves two sons, a daughter, and several relatives.
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Hopkins
Tyson
Holcomb
Garden City
Worth Sparkman
Tyson Foods Inc
Sparkman
Tyson Fresh Meats
Janet Riley
American Meat Institute
Riley
Finney County Sheriffs Office
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Health Services Department
Muniz
Cesar Abdil Muniz
Guymon
Okla
Cesar Israel Muniz
Garden
Coalition earns city support for lobbying efforts in state budget
Garden City Mayor Doll and other city staff meet weekly with coalition lobbyists during the state legislative session. Pinegar says the group tracks every bill that could affect cities. Doll notes his change of mind about funding lobbyists, calling it money well spent. Dan Fankhauser, at his first coalition meeting, praises the lobbyists. Pinegar and Smith & Associates replaced Robin Jennison, now secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. Liberal officials were absent.
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Pinegar
Garden City
Doll
Dan Fankhauser
Southwest
Kansas
Fankhauser
Pinegar, Smith & Associates
Robin Jennison
Coalition
Jennison
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Liberal
Kansas arts funding backers rally after veto
About 100 supporters including lawmakers and former Kansas Arts Commission members met in Lawrence to discuss Brownback’s veto of 689000 for the commission and its staff, potential loss of 1.2 million in NEA and MAA grants, and efforts to restore public funding through a private fundraising group led by Linda Browning Weis.
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Lawrence
Sam Brownback
Kansas
Kansas Arts Commission
Kansas Citizens For the Arts
Brownback
Commission
Arts Commission
National Endowment
Arts
Mid- America
Topeka Capital Journal
Jeff Colyer
The
Senate
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