Garden City eyes Main Street program despite doubts
Downtown Vision backs Kansas Main Street bid for towns under 50 thousand. Bruce Glass says several merchants fear public funds, yet support grows if results appear. The group aims for an $90,000 budget, with $80,000 pledged from city county chamber and donors, to start in July 2005.
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Downtown Vision
Garden City
Kansas
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Whitehurst
Petrus
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Downtown
Downtown Vision Group
Michelle Mayo
Downtown Vision Board
Corner On Main
Garden City Downtown Association
Advance directives boost patient control and family clarity
Kansas health ethicists note rising use of durable power of attorney living wills and do not resuscitate directives. A Wichita nonprofit tracks growing interest while hospitals report frequent inquiries and social workers provide guidance to ease tough medical decisions and keep care aligned with patients wishes.
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Carolyn Harrison
Kansas Health Ethics
Harrison
Brown University
Center For Gerontology and
St. Catherine Hospital
Social Services Office
Jill Whippo
Social Work Services
Tamara Davis
Dodge City
Garden City Community College
Davis
Kris Funk
Terrace Garden Care Center
Sebelius vetoes two southwest Kansas provisions
Kansas Governor Sebelius vetoed two measures aimed at creating a gas trust fund and possibly funding a new regional higher education facility in southwest Kansas. Senate budget chair Morris criticized the veto as misjudged while Loyd labeled the move shortsighted.
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Kansas
Gas Trust Fund
Morris
Senate Budget Committee
Southwest
Board of Regents
Loyd
Regents
Bills on governor’s desk reshape budget and reforms
A budget clean-up bill finalizes a 10.3 billion spending blueprint for the new fiscal year starting July. A campaign finance reform measure seeks to tighten lobbyist disclosure while provisions lift term limits on transfers between offices. A tuition bill extends in-state rates to certain immigrant graduates at Kansas colleges. An Open Records Act bill would allow attorney fees against the state in bad-faith denials. A sales tax enforcement delay would let businesses switch by January 1, 2005 to a destination-based tax.
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Kansas
Pentagon faces questions over detainee abuse and policy gaps
U S senators pressed defense officials over detention methods cited in Iraq and possible violations of the Geneva Conventions. General Geoffrey Miller defended briefing on humane detention while Rumsfeld toured Abu Ghraib. Rumsfeld said abuses by a few would not alter U S management and signaled talks with allied nations to boost forces.
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Wolfowitz
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U.S
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Abu Ghraib
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Cuba
Defense
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Rumsfeld
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