Kansas Supreme Court rules legislature overstepped authority on school funding section
The Kansas Supreme Court held the legislature exceeded constitutional authority by inserting a school district budget limit into the omnibus appropriations bill. Gov Carlin could not veto the section but the ruling renders that moot. The decision blocks logrolling in money measures and caps the two subject ban. It sets the maximum budget increase for the poorest districts at 15 percent, with potential statewide tax implications of around 41.7 million if districts raise budgets as allowed. The ruling preserves ongoing budget laws and avoids a special session.
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Kansas Supreme Court
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Robert Stephan
Carlin
Kansas
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Stephan
High Court
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Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Executive Branch of
Robert Miller
Weather refugees hold on as flood recedes in Hoisington
Flooding along Blood Creek keeps about 100 families from Hoisington Kansas displaced as water slowly recedes. Sheriff Gene Marks notes 3 to 4 feet remaining, danger from possible more rain, while crews including a McConnell Air Force Base helicopter assist if needed. Ten inches of rain fell, with 108 families evacuated.
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Hoisington
Kan
Blood Creek
Barton County
Gene Marks
South
Marks
Great Bend
Arkansas
McConnell Air Force Base
Wichita
Mahlon Weed
Kansas Division of Emergency Preparedness
Kansas
Housing costs spur inflation rate in May report
The Labor Department reported May inflation at 8.4 percent annually, driven by housing costs up 1.3 percent due to higher mortgage rates and prices. Gasoline and food eased, while medical care rose. unadjusted CPI stood at 269.0, and real spendable earnings fell 0.4 percent. Various economists offered divergent 1981 inflation forecasts.
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Labor Department
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Reagan
Donald Ratajczak
Georgia State University
Edward Yardeni
E.F. Hutton & Co
Allen Sinai
Data Resources Inc
Lexington
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Lick a grizzly bear stamp set issued by USPS
Huntington artist Chuck Ripper will issue a new wildlife stamp set Saturday featuring his grizzly along with a blue heron a badger and a ruffed grouse. It follows last year’s coral series and marks a hobby turned profession for the artist.
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Huntington
W.va
Chuck Ripper
U.S. Postal Service
Ripper
Postal Service
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