Wheat tour finds widespread freeze damage in Kansas
Kansas farmers report a mostly poor winter wheat crop with freeze damage in nearly every region and some fields showing 25 to 30 percent damage. Early yields averaged 31 bushels per acre on a tour through Colby Lakin Garden City Pratt and Wichita amid 37 percent of crop rated poor to very poor.
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Fritz
Kansas Agriculture Statistics Service
KASS
Eldon Thiessen
Kansas
Thiessen
Colby
Lakin
Garden City
Pratt
Wichita
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas House and Senate clash over school finance plan
House Democrats push for more funding for rural and urban poor students and local property tax authority. Senate aims for a $541 million package with pension boosts and at risk student aid, while opposing higher district tax powers. Talks in limbo as court-ordered funding looms and wrap-up session nears.
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House
Johnson County
Mays
Democrat
Decker
Senate Education Committee
Jean Schodorf
Senate
Schodorf
Chamber
Judicial ethics probe eyed as lunch affair sparks inquiry
The Kansas judicial commission prepares a two panel review into Nuss lunch politics and possible backdoor contacts between lawmakers and the court over school finance. The process includes private initial inquiries and public hearings if serious misconduct is found, with past cases showing thorough but rare discipline of justices.
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Nuss
Phill Kline
Commission On
Ron Keefover
Supreme Court
Mike O'Neal
R-Hutchinson
House
Judicial Commission
Kenneth Bronson
Topeka
Bronson
Judicial Branch
Keefover
State Supreme Court
High Court
State Court
Labette County
Robert J. Fleming
Parsons
Bruce Buchanan
Harris Enterprises
Harris News Service
Lawrence
Edward G. Collister, Jr
Saline County
George R. Robertson
Get show on road at Windsor Hotel festival
Continued from Page Al den City the Windsor Hotel hosts a festival with tours from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. A $5 donation supports renovation work. About 200 communities represented by exhibitors entertainers and vendors offer diverse cuisine and products. Sunday features Miss Kansas Adrienne Rozel signing autographs 1 to 4 p.m. at the South Central Kansas Tourism Region tent. Rozel recently appeared at the Miss America Pageant.
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den City
Windsor Hotel
Kansas
Adrienne Rozel
Rozel
Cattle House and Senate clash over beef testing proviso
Dispute between House and Senate budget negotiators over a beef testing proviso widens as Creektone Arkansas City plant and US meat packers face calls for mass testing. Officials argue about USDA trade aims with Japan while testing remains opposed by major packers.
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Senate
Japan
United States
USDA
Creekstone
Arkansas City
House
Melvin Neufeld
R-Ingalls
Chamber
Dwayne Umbarger
R-Thayer
Umbarger
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